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Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 2002

22 tornado watches in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
22
Busiest month
December10 tornado watches
Busiest day
December 18, 20027 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 23, 4:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crawford and 37 more6 hr
Jan 23, 9:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCClay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Faulkner and 18 more6 hr
Mar 8, 9:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford and 23 more5 hr
Mar 29, 3:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCClay, Greene5 hr
Mar 29, 5:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCraighead, Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett5 hr
Apr 27, 11:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Clay, Fulton, Izard, Lawrence, Marion and 5 more5 hr
Apr 28, 2:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCraighead, Mississippi5 hr
May 1, 9:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Fulton and 8 more5 hr
Oct 3, 9:55 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Chicot, Drew12 hr
Nov 9, 6:20 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCClay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee and 6 more6 hr
Nov 10, 3:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCrittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett, St. Francis6 hr
Nov 10, 4:35 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Ashley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Lee and 2 more6 hr
Dec 17, 7:35 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Boone, Carroll, Madison, Marion, Newton and 1 more5 hr
Dec 17, 10:40 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Washington5 hr
Dec 18, 3:30 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBenton5 hr
Dec 18, 7:20 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Fulton and 12 more6 hr
Dec 18, 1:10 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland and 26 more8 hr
Dec 18, 2:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden and 18 more7 hr
Dec 18, 5:50 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCChicot, Crittenden, Desha, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips and 1 more3 hr
Dec 18, 8:55 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland, Columbia and 8 more6 hr
Dec 18, 9:05 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCrittenden, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips, St. Francis6 hr
Dec 19, 2:25 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Bradley, Chicot, Union8 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

35 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. December 18, 20027tornado watches
  2. November 10, 20023tornado watches
  3. December 19, 20023tornado watches
  4. March 29, 20022tornado watches
  5. April 28, 20022tornado watches
  6. January 23, 20021tornado watches
  7. January 24, 20021tornado watches
  8. March 9, 20021tornado watches
  9. May 2, 20021tornado watches
  10. October 3, 20021tornado watches

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.