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Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 2000
16 tornado watches in 2000. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 16
- Busiest month
- February4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- January 3, 20003 tornado watches
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 4:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford, Faulkner and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 3, 7:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Mississippi and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 3, 10:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland, Columbia and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 13, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Lee, Phillips | 6 hr |
| Feb 18, 11:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Columbia, Conway and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Desha and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 25, 1:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Clark, Columbia and 35 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 7, 10:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Franklin, Polk, Scott, Sebastian and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Lafayette, Miller | 7 hr |
| Apr 23, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Little River, Polk, Scott, Sebastian, Sevier | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Columbia, Union | 6 hr |
| May 9, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett, St. Francis | 5 hr |
| May 12, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Little River | 4 hr |
| May 18, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Howard, Johnson and 8 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Crawford County6
- Polk County6
- Scott County6
- Sebastian County6
- Columbia County6
- Franklin County5
- Howard County5
- Cross County5
- Poinsett County5
- Calhoun County5
- Sevier County5
- Garland County4
- Hot Spring County4
- Jackson County4
- Johnson County4
- Logan County4
- Madison County4
- Monroe County4
- Montgomery County4
- Pike County4
- Prairie County4
- Pulaski County4
- Saline County4
- Washington County4
- Woodruff County4
- Crittenden County4
- Mississippi County4
- Dallas County4
- Grant County4
- Ouachita County4
- St. Francis County4
- Lafayette County4
- Little River County4
- Miller County4
- Baxter County3
- Boone County3
- Conway County3
- Faulkner County3
- Independence County3
- Lonoke County3
34 more counties
- Marion County3
- Newton County3
- Perry County3
- Pope County3
- Searcy County3
- White County3
- Yell County3
- Craighead County3
- Greene County3
- Bradley County3
- Chicot County3
- Cleveland County3
- Desha County3
- Drew County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lee County3
- Phillips County3
- Clark County3
- Hempstead County3
- Nevada County3
- Carroll County3
- Union County3
- Cleburne County2
- Sharp County2
- Stone County2
- Van Buren County2
- Clay County2
- Arkansas County2
- Lincoln County2
- Ashley County2
- Benton County2
- Fulton County1
- Izard County1
- Lawrence County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19992001
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.