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Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 2012

27 tornado watches in 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
27
Busiest month
March5 tornado watches
Busiest day
February 29, 20122 tornado watches

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 22, 5:16 PM CSTTornado Watch PDSSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clay and 29 more6 hr
Jan 22, 10:59 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Chicot7 hr
Jan 25, 2:08 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Chicot, Union7 hr
Feb 28, 10:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford and 20 more6 hr
Feb 29, 3:20 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Fulton and 20 more9 hr
Mar 11, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Chicot8 hr
Mar 19, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more5 hr
Mar 19, 7:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHoward, Little River, Miller, Sevier9 hr
Mar 20, 2:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleburne, Cleveland and 25 more7 hr
Mar 20, 10:59 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCUnion7 hr
Apr 3, 2:36 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHoward, Little River, Miller, Sevier7 hr
Apr 5, 1:53 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Chicot9 hr
Apr 15, 10:51 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford, Franklin and 18 more7 hr
Apr 15, 4:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Clay and 49 more6 hr
Apr 30, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Washington7 hr
Jun 3, 3:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 18 more6 hr
Jun 3, 7:09 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lawrence and 5 more7 hr
Aug 30, 9:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCPhillips5 hr
Aug 31, 1:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Poinsett and 1 more8 hr
Sep 1, 3:49 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 22 more7 hr
Sep 2, 3:42 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCrittenden, Lee, Phillips, St. Francis7 hr
Oct 13, 5:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more6 hr
Oct 17, 5:21 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Carroll and 57 more7 hr
Oct 17, 7:01 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Chicot, Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette and 5 more8 hr
Nov 11, 12:53 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCClark, Columbia, Dallas, Garland, Hempstead, Hot Spring and 11 more6 hr
Dec 9, 2:10 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden and 29 more9 hr
Dec 19, 7:36 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 36 more6 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

35 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. February 29, 20122tornado watches
  2. March 20, 20122tornado watches
  3. April 15, 20122tornado watches
  4. August 31, 20122tornado watches
  5. January 22, 20121tornado watches
  6. January 23, 20121tornado watches
  7. January 25, 20121tornado watches
  8. March 11, 20121tornado watches
  9. March 19, 20121tornado watches
  10. March 21, 20121tornado watches
  11. April 3, 20121tornado watches
  12. April 5, 20121tornado watches

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. Rebuilt daily.