Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, May 2008
17 tornado watches in May 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 May 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 17
- Busiest day
- May 10, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 1:09 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 2, 8:49 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Cleburne and 43 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 1:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Crittenden, Cross and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Union | 6 hr |
| May 2, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Lincoln and 1 more | 4 hr |
| May 2, 11:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 6 hr |
| May 7, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Columbia, Crawford, Franklin, Hempstead and 15 more | 8 hr |
| May 7, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun and 36 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 10:11 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 29 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 11:29 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford and 15 more | 9 hr |
| May 10, 3:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 36 more | 4 hr |
| May 10, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lawrence and 6 more | 10 hr |
| May 10, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun and 50 more | 7 hr |
| May 13, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Washington | 5 hr |
| May 15, 1:16 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 15, 4:16 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Lincoln | 7 hr |
| May 25, 1:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 10 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bradley County8
- Desha County8
- Drew County8
- Lincoln County8
- Ashley County8
- Chicot County8
- Columbia County7
- Union County7
- Arkansas County6
- Calhoun County6
- Clark County6
- Cleveland County6
- Dallas County6
- Hempstead County6
- Howard County6
- Lafayette County6
- Little River County6
- Miller County6
- Nevada County6
- Ouachita County6
- Pike County6
- Sevier County6
- Benton County5
- Washington County5
- Garland County5
- Grant County5
- Hot Spring County5
- Jefferson County5
- Lonoke County5
- Monroe County5
- Montgomery County5
- Perry County5
- Pulaski County5
- Saline County5
- Logan County5
- Scott County5
- Yell County5
- Carroll County4
- Crawford County4
- Franklin County4
35 more counties
- Madison County4
- Sebastian County4
- Cleburne County4
- Faulkner County4
- Independence County4
- Jackson County4
- Phillips County4
- Prairie County4
- White County4
- Woodruff County4
- Polk County4
- Boone County4
- Johnson County4
- Marion County4
- Newton County4
- Pope County4
- Searcy County4
- Crittenden County3
- Cross County3
- Lee County3
- Mississippi County3
- St. Francis County3
- Baxter County3
- Conway County3
- Fulton County3
- Izard County3
- Sharp County3
- Stone County3
- Van Buren County3
- Clay County2
- Craighead County2
- Greene County2
- Lawrence County2
- Poinsett County2
- Randolph County2
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.