Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2011
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, May 2011
11 tornado watches in May 2011. 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- May 25, 20114 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, 12:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia and 27 more | 8 hr |
| May 20, 11:03 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Columbia, Conway, Crawford, Dallas, Franklin and 26 more | 7 hr |
| May 20, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Columbia, Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hempstead and 16 more | 3 hr |
| May 22, 1:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 8 hr |
| May 22, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne and 34 more | 7 hr |
| May 23, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian, Washington | 4 hr |
| May 24, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Conway and 30 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 10:37 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Fulton, Izard, Madison and 5 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 12:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Clay and 41 more | 8 hr |
| May 25, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Columbia, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada and 1 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Searcy County6
- Clark County5
- Hot Spring County5
- Lafayette County5
- Miller County5
- Nevada County5
- Conway County5
- Crawford County5
- Franklin County5
- Madison County5
- Newton County5
- Sebastian County5
- Van Buren County5
- Washington County5
- Baxter County5
- Fulton County5
- Izard County5
- Marion County5
- Stone County5
- Columbia County4
- Crittenden County4
- Cross County4
- Dallas County4
- Hempstead County4
- Little River County4
- Ouachita County4
- Poinsett County4
- St. Francis County4
- Saline County4
- Woodruff County4
- Garland County4
- Johnson County4
- Perry County4
- Pope County4
- Scott County4
- Carroll County4
- Boone County4
- Sharp County4
- Grant County3
- Jefferson County3
35 more counties
- Lonoke County3
- Mississippi County3
- Pulaski County3
- Howard County3
- Logan County3
- Montgomery County3
- Pike County3
- Polk County3
- Sevier County3
- Yell County3
- Benton County3
- Clay County3
- Cleburne County3
- Craighead County3
- Faulkner County3
- Greene County3
- Independence County3
- Jackson County3
- Lawrence County3
- Randolph County3
- White County3
- Arkansas County2
- Bradley County2
- Calhoun County2
- Cleveland County2
- Desha County2
- Drew County2
- Lee County2
- Lincoln County2
- Monroe County2
- Phillips County2
- Prairie County2
- Union County2
- Ashley County1
- Chicot 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.