Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2009
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, May 2009
6 tornado watches in May 2009. 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 8, 20093 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, 12:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 19 more | 7 hr |
| May 2, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Columbia, Desha and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 12:54 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 20 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 9:21 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Greene, Independence, Izard and 10 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett | 7 hr |
| May 8, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 35 more | 11 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ashley County3
- Bradley County3
- Calhoun County3
- Chicot County3
- Columbia County3
- Desha County3
- Drew County3
- Hempstead County3
- Howard County3
- Lafayette County3
- Little River County3
- Miller County3
- Nevada County3
- Ouachita County3
- Sevier County3
- Union County3
- Arkansas County2
- Clark County2
- Cleveland County2
- Dallas County2
- Grant County2
- Hot Spring County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lincoln County2
- Pike County2
- Clay County2
- Cleburne County2
- Craighead County2
- Greene County2
- Independence County2
- Izard County2
- Jackson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Mississippi County2
- Poinsett County2
- Randolph County2
- Sharp County2
- Stone County2
- Van Buren County2
- White County2
32 more counties
- Woodruff County2
- Phillips County1
- Baxter County1
- Benton County1
- Boone County1
- Carroll County1
- Conway County1
- Crawford County1
- Cross County1
- Faulkner County1
- Franklin County1
- Fulton County1
- Garland County1
- Johnson County1
- Logan County1
- Lonoke County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Montgomery County1
- Newton County1
- Perry County1
- Polk County1
- Pope County1
- Prairie County1
- Pulaski County1
- St. Francis County1
- Saline County1
- Scott County1
- Searcy County1
- Sebastian County1
- Washington County1
- Yell 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.