Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, March 2012
5 tornado watches in March 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 March 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- March 20, 20122 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 11, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 8 hr |
| Mar 19, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 19, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Howard, Little River, Miller, Sevier | 9 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleburne, Cleveland and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 20, 10:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Union | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ashley County1
- Chicot County1
- Benton County1
- Carroll County1
- Crawford County1
- Franklin County1
- Madison County1
- Sebastian County1
- Washington County1
- Howard County1
- Little River County1
- Miller County1
- Sevier County1
- Arkansas County1
- Baxter County1
- Bradley County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cleburne County1
- Cleveland County1
- Conway County1
- Dallas County1
- Desha County1
- Drew County1
- Faulkner County1
- Fulton County1
- Grant County1
- Independence County1
- Izard County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lonoke County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Perry County1
- Prairie County1
- Pulaski County1
- Saline County1
- Searcy County1
- Sharp County1
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.