Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, March 2008
13 tornado watches in March 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 March 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest day
- March 18, 20085 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 8:23 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Howard, Little River, Miller, Polk and 3 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 3, 10:36 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland, Columbia and 8 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 14, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 17, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Garland, Hempstead, Hot Spring, Howard, Little River and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 17, 10:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 31 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 18, 10:16 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Cleveland, Columbia and 48 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 18, 10:59 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Union | 8 hr |
| Mar 18, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Cleburne and 43 more | 11 hr |
| Mar 18, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Union | 9 hr |
| Mar 18, 10:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 8 hr |
| Mar 31, 8:44 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Washington | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Cleveland, Columbia and 34 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Howard County6
- Little River County6
- Miller County6
- Polk County6
- Sevier County6
- Nevada County6
- Garland County6
- Montgomery County6
- Scott County5
- Sebastian County5
- Cleveland County5
- Columbia County5
- Dallas County5
- Lafayette County5
- Ouachita County5
- Clark County5
- Hempstead County5
- Hot Spring County5
- Pike County5
- Perry County5
- Crawford County4
- Franklin County4
- Calhoun County4
- Union County4
- Grant County4
- Jefferson County4
- Logan County4
- Yell County4
- Cleburne County4
- Conway County4
- Faulkner County4
- Independence County4
- Jackson County4
- Lonoke County4
- Prairie County4
- Pulaski County4
- Saline County4
- White County4
- Woodruff County4
- Ashley County3
35 more counties
- Bradley County3
- Chicot County3
- Desha County3
- Drew County3
- Lincoln County3
- Arkansas County3
- Benton County3
- Carroll County3
- Izard County3
- Johnson County3
- Madison County3
- Pope County3
- Sharp County3
- Stone County3
- Van Buren County3
- Washington County3
- Clay County3
- Craighead County3
- Cross County3
- Greene County3
- Lawrence County3
- Poinsett County3
- Randolph County3
- Baxter County2
- Boone County2
- Fulton County2
- Marion County2
- Newton County2
- Searcy County2
- Lee County2
- Monroe County2
- Phillips County2
- St. Francis County2
- Mississippi County2
- Crittenden 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.