Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2001
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, May 2001
6 tornado watches in May 2001. 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 May 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 21, 20012 tornado watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Washington | 6 hr |
| May 20, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Benton, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 38 more | 5 hr |
| May 20, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fulton | 5 hr |
| May 20, 11:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Benton, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 38 more | 4 hr |
| May 30, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Garland, Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Montgomery and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 30, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleburne and 28 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County3
- Washington County3
- Arkansas County3
- Clark County3
- Cleburne County3
- Cleveland County3
- Conway County3
- Dallas County3
- Desha County3
- Faulkner County3
- Garland County3
- Grant County3
- Hot Spring County3
- Howard County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lincoln County3
- Lonoke County3
- Monroe County3
- Montgomery County3
- Perry County3
- Pike County3
- Polk County3
- Pope County3
- Prairie County3
- Pulaski County3
- Saline County3
- Scott County3
- Van Buren County3
- White County3
- Woodruff County3
- Carroll County2
- Crawford County2
- Franklin County2
- Independence County2
- Izard County2
- Johnson County2
- Logan County2
- Madison County2
- Newton County2
21 more counties
- Searcy County2
- Sebastian County2
- Stone County2
- Yell County2
- Fulton County1
- Hempstead County1
- Little River County1
- Nevada County1
- Sevier County1
- Ashley County1
- Bradley County1
- Calhoun County1
- Chicot County1
- Cross County1
- Drew County1
- Lee County1
- Ouachita County1
- Phillips County1
- Poinsett County1
- St. Francis County1
- Union County1
Nearby
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.