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Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 2015

36 tornado watches in 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
36
Busiest month
May14 tornado watches
Busiest day
November 17, 20155 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
Apr 2, 7:02 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Fulton, Marion8 hr
Apr 3, 1:35 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Boone, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Fulton and 14 more6 hr
Apr 3, 12:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMississippi8 hr
Apr 9, 3:06 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia and 13 more7 hr
Apr 19, 5:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 36 more6 hr
Apr 24, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCColumbia, Lafayette, Miller, Union5 hr
Apr 24, 9:59 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland, Columbia and 5 more4 hr
May 9, 2:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas and 13 more7 hr
May 10, 9:28 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Howard and 13 more6 hr
May 10, 10:19 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCHoward, Little River, Sevier13 hr
May 10, 12:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCrawford, Franklin, Sebastian10 hr
May 10, 7:34 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hempstead, Hot Spring and 13 more4 hr
May 10, 11:31 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 33 more5 hr
May 16, 8:42 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more8 hr
May 24, 12:34 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Carroll and 52 more6 hr
May 24, 1:49 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Chicot8 hr
May 24, 4:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lawrence and 6 more8 hr
May 25, 2:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Howard, Little River and 8 more8 hr
May 25, 5:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark and 40 more6 hr
May 25, 10:03 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Craighead, Cross, Greene, Lawrence, Poinsett and 2 more4 hr
May 29, 2:09 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Hempstead, Howard and 12 more5 hr
Nov 5, 4:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Conway and 32 more5 hr
Nov 17, 4:48 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCHoward, Little River, Miller, Sevier4 hr
Nov 17, 8:55 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCColumbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 3 more7 hr
Nov 17, 11:07 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 21 more6 hr
Nov 17, 12:36 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Chicot7 hr
Nov 17, 3:15 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCraighead, Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips and 2 more4 hr
Dec 23, 12:06 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas and 10 more7 hr
Dec 23, 6:20 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark and 50 more7 hr
Dec 23, 9:13 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCClay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Poinsett and 1 more8 hr
Dec 23, 11:57 AM CSTTornado Watch PDSSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 12 more9 hr
Dec 26, 12:35 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCrawford, Franklin, Johnson, Logan, Polk, Scott and 1 more9 hr
Dec 27, 8:56 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCHempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Sevier10 hr
Dec 27, 2:47 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland and 15 more7 hr
Dec 27, 9:57 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Chicot, Columbia, Union7 hr
Dec 28, 2:23 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCLee, Phillips8 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. November 17, 20155tornado watches
  2. December 23, 20154tornado watches
  3. April 3, 20153tornado watches
  4. May 10, 20153tornado watches
  5. May 24, 20153tornado watches
  6. May 11, 20152tornado watches
  7. May 25, 20152tornado watches
  8. December 27, 20152tornado watches
  9. December 28, 20152tornado watches
  10. April 9, 20151tornado watches
  11. April 19, 20151tornado watches
  12. April 24, 20151tornado 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.