Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, December 2008
7 tornado watches in December 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- December 27, 20084 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 8, 11:31 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Little River, Miller | 7 hr |
| Dec 9, 4:11 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 9, 9:32 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Union | 6 hr |
| Dec 27, 12:03 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 27, 6:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 34 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 27, 7:41 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lafayette, Miller | 6 hr |
| Dec 27, 1:52 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Cross and 26 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Little River County3
- Miller County3
- Garland County3
- Hot Spring County3
- Montgomery County3
- Polk County3
- Pulaski County3
- Saline County3
- Baxter County3
- Marion County3
- Pope County3
- Searcy County3
- Yell County3
- Bradley County2
- Clark County2
- Desha County2
- Drew County2
- Hempstead County2
- Howard County2
- Lafayette County2
- Lonoke County2
- Nevada County2
- Pike County2
- Prairie County2
- Sevier County2
- Union County2
- Benton County2
- Boone County2
- Carroll County2
- Crawford County2
- Franklin County2
- Johnson County2
- Logan County2
- Madison County2
- Newton County2
- Scott County2
- Sebastian County2
- Washington County2
- Cleburne County2
- Conway County2
31 more counties
- Faulkner County2
- Fulton County2
- Independence County2
- Izard County2
- Perry County2
- Sharp County2
- Stone County2
- Van Buren County2
- Arkansas County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cleveland County1
- Columbia County1
- Dallas County1
- Grant County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lincoln County1
- Monroe County1
- Ouachita County1
- Ashley County1
- Chicot County1
- Clay County1
- Craighead County1
- Cross County1
- Greene County1
- Jackson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Mississippi County1
- Poinsett County1
- Randolph County1
- White County1
- Woodruff 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.