Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, May 2003
35 tornado watches in May 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 May 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 35
- Busiest day
- May 5, 20036 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 1, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Little River | 5 hr |
| May 1, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Howard, Johnson and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 3, 1:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 12:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Sebastian, Washington | 6 hr |
| May 4, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 29 more | 7 hr |
| May 4, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 9 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 12:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 34 more | 5 hr |
| May 5, 1:20 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 4:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 9 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 10:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 21 more | 5 hr |
| May 5, 1:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crawford, Crittenden, Cross and 21 more | 3 hr |
| May 5, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun and 62 more | 7 hr |
| May 5, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Phillips | 7 hr |
| May 6, 1:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 11:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 4 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Logan, Polk, Scott, Sebastian | 6 hr |
| May 6, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 32 more | 5 hr |
| May 6, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun and 67 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 4:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Crittenden, Cross and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 10:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Drew | 5 hr |
| May 8, 6:20 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Logan, Montgomery, Scott, Sebastian and 1 more | 3 hr |
| May 8, 8:25 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden and 18 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 10:25 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Mississippi and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Sebastian, Washington | 5 hr |
| May 9, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll | 6 hr |
| May 10, 11:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Sebastian, Washington | 7 hr |
| May 10, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead and 22 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden and 18 more | 5 hr |
| May 14, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 16, 12:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Columbia and 33 more | 5 hr |
| May 16, 2:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Chicot, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden and 16 more | 7 hr |
| May 16, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Fulton, Independence and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 16, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 40 more | 6 hr |
| May 16, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Chicot, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 4:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chicot | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cross County15
- Poinsett County14
- Craighead County13
- Crittenden County13
- Crawford County12
- Franklin County12
- Logan County12
- Sebastian County12
- Pope County12
- Greene County12
- Mississippi County12
- St. Francis County12
- Johnson County11
- Scott County11
- Cleburne County11
- Conway County11
- Faulkner County11
- Van Buren County11
- Woodruff County11
- Benton County10
- Carroll County10
- Washington County10
- Independence County10
- Searcy County10
- Stone County10
- White County10
- Jackson County10
- Lawrence County10
- Monroe County10
- Phillips County10
- Howard County9
- Montgomery County9
- Pike County9
- Polk County9
- Sevier County9
- Baxter County9
- Boone County9
- Izard County9
- Newton County9
- Sharp County9
35 more counties
- Yell County9
- Clay County9
- Lee County9
- Little River County8
- Madison County8
- Garland County8
- Marion County8
- Perry County8
- Clark County8
- Arkansas County8
- Drew County8
- Columbia County7
- Hempstead County7
- Lafayette County7
- Miller County7
- Nevada County7
- Fulton County7
- Prairie County7
- Saline County7
- Hot Spring County7
- Ashley County7
- Bradley County7
- Chicot County7
- Randolph County7
- Lonoke County6
- Pulaski County6
- Grant County6
- Jefferson County6
- Calhoun County6
- Cleveland County6
- Dallas County6
- Desha County6
- Lincoln County6
- Ouachita County6
- Union County6
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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.