Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, April 2003
8 tornado watches in April 2003. 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 April 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- April 24, 20034 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 10:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Columbia, Drew and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Union | 5 hr |
| Apr 24, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 24, 2:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 6 hr |
| Apr 24, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton and 19 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 24, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Clay, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway and 33 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 24, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Drew | 4 hr |
| Apr 24, 11:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lawrence, Lee and 4 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ashley County4
- Chicot County4
- Drew County3
- Union County3
- Faulkner County3
- Lonoke County3
- Pulaski County3
- Saline County3
- White County3
- Bradley County2
- Calhoun County2
- Columbia County2
- Lafayette County2
- Miller County2
- Nevada County2
- Ouachita County2
- Arkansas County2
- Cleveland County2
- Dallas County2
- Desha County2
- Garland County2
- Grant County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lincoln County2
- Monroe County2
- Prairie County2
- Woodruff County2
- Baxter County2
- Cleburne County2
- Conway County2
- Fulton County2
- Independence County2
- Izard County2
- Marion County2
- Searcy County2
- Sharp County2
- Stone County2
- Van Buren County2
- Craighead County2
25 more counties
- Crittenden County2
- Cross County2
- Greene County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lee County2
- Mississippi County2
- Phillips County2
- Poinsett County2
- St. Francis County2
- Little River County1
- Clark County1
- Hempstead County1
- Hot Spring County1
- Howard County1
- Pike County1
- Boone County1
- Johnson County1
- Logan County1
- Montgomery County1
- Newton County1
- Perry County1
- Pope County1
- Yell County1
- Clay County1
- Randolph 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.