Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, December 2002
10 tornado watches in December 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 December 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- December 18, 20027 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 7:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Madison, Marion, Newton and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 17, 10:40 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Washington | 5 hr |
| Dec 18, 3:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton | 5 hr |
| Dec 18, 7:20 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Fulton and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 18, 1:10 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland and 26 more | 8 hr |
| Dec 18, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 18, 5:50 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chicot, Crittenden, Desha, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Dec 18, 8:55 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland, Columbia and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 18, 9:05 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crittenden, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips, St. Francis | 6 hr |
| Dec 19, 2:25 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Union | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County3
- Carroll County3
- Washington County3
- Ashley County3
- Bradley County3
- Union County3
- Crittenden County3
- Mississippi County3
- St. Francis County3
- Chicot County3
- Boone County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Newton County2
- Baxter County2
- Fulton County2
- Scott County2
- Van Buren County2
- Calhoun County2
- Cleveland County2
- Columbia County2
- Dallas County2
- Drew County2
- Lafayette County2
- Lincoln County2
- Nevada County2
- Ouachita County2
- Desha County2
- Lee County2
- Phillips County2
- Crawford County1
- Franklin County1
- Johnson County1
- Logan County1
- Pope County1
- Searcy County1
- Sebastian County1
- Yell County1
- Arkansas County1
- Clark County1
35 more counties
- Garland County1
- Grant County1
- Hempstead County1
- Hot Spring County1
- Howard County1
- Jefferson County1
- Little River County1
- Lonoke County1
- Miller County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Pike County1
- Polk County1
- Prairie County1
- Pulaski County1
- Saline County1
- Sevier County1
- Clay County1
- Cleburne County1
- Conway County1
- Craighead County1
- Cross County1
- Faulkner County1
- Greene County1
- Independence County1
- Izard County1
- Jackson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Perry County1
- Poinsett County1
- Randolph County1
- Sharp County1
- Stone County1
- White County1
- Woodruff County1
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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.