Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2013
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, May 2013
8 tornado watches in May 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 21, 20133 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 16, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Union | 4 hr |
| May 19, 10:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Washington | 5 hr |
| May 20, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 9 hr |
| May 20, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 26 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas and 13 more | 8 hr |
| May 21, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Chicot, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 1:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 30 more | 8 hr |
| May 30, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Benton, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun and 58 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County5
- Crawford County5
- Washington County5
- Carroll County4
- Franklin County4
- Madison County4
- Sebastian County4
- Baxter County3
- Boone County3
- Cleburne County3
- Conway County3
- Faulkner County3
- Fulton County3
- Howard County3
- Izard County3
- Johnson County3
- Little River County3
- Logan County3
- Marion County3
- Montgomery County3
- Newton County3
- Perry County3
- Polk County3
- Pope County3
- Scott County3
- Searcy County3
- Sevier County3
- Stone County3
- Van Buren County3
- Yell County3
- Clark County3
- Hot Spring County3
- Pike County3
- Ashley County2
- Chicot County2
- Union County2
- Independence County2
- Sharp County2
- Bradley County2
- Calhoun County2
35 more counties
- Cleveland County2
- Dallas County2
- Grant County2
- Jefferson County2
- Ouachita County2
- Arkansas County2
- Clay County2
- Craighead County2
- Crittenden County2
- Cross County2
- Desha County2
- Drew County2
- Greene County2
- Lee County2
- Lincoln County2
- Mississippi County2
- Monroe County2
- Phillips County2
- Poinsett County2
- St. Francis County2
- Garland County2
- Pulaski County2
- Saline County2
- Columbia County1
- Hempstead County1
- Lafayette County1
- Miller County1
- Nevada County1
- Jackson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Lonoke County1
- Prairie County1
- Randolph County1
- White County1
- Woodruff 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.