Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2015
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, May 2015
14 tornado watches in May 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 May 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 14
- Busiest day
- May 10, 20153 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 9, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas and 13 more | 7 hr |
| May 10, 9:28 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Howard and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 10:19 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Howard, Little River, Sevier | 13 hr |
| May 10, 12:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 10 hr |
| May 10, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hempstead, Hot Spring and 13 more | 4 hr |
| May 10, 11:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 33 more | 5 hr |
| May 16, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 8 hr |
| May 24, 12:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Carroll and 52 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 1:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 8 hr |
| May 24, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lawrence and 6 more | 8 hr |
| May 25, 2:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Howard, Little River and 8 more | 8 hr |
| May 25, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark and 40 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 10:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Cross, Greene, Lawrence, Poinsett and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 29, 2:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Hempstead, Howard and 12 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Howard County8
- Little River County8
- Sevier County8
- Pike County7
- Hempstead County6
- Franklin County6
- Montgomery County6
- Sebastian County6
- Yell County6
- Clark County5
- Dallas County5
- Grant County5
- Hot Spring County5
- Lafayette County5
- Miller County5
- Nevada County5
- Carroll County5
- Crawford County5
- Madison County5
- Polk County5
- Scott County5
- Bradley County4
- Calhoun County4
- Cleveland County4
- Columbia County4
- Jefferson County4
- Lincoln County4
- Ouachita County4
- Benton County4
- Johnson County4
- Logan County4
- Washington County4
- Garland County4
- Perry County4
- Saline County4
- Boone County3
- Newton County3
- Arkansas County3
- Cleburne County3
- Conway County3
35 more counties
- Drew County3
- Faulkner County3
- Lonoke County3
- Monroe County3
- Pope County3
- Prairie County3
- Pulaski County3
- Union County3
- Van Buren County3
- White County3
- Woodruff County3
- Desha County2
- Baxter County2
- Fulton County2
- Independence County2
- Izard County2
- Jackson County2
- Marion County2
- Searcy County2
- Sharp County2
- Stone County2
- Clay County2
- Craighead County2
- Cross County2
- Greene County2
- Lawrence County2
- Poinsett County2
- Randolph County2
- St. Francis County2
- Ashley County1
- Chicot County1
- Crittenden County1
- Lee County1
- Mississippi County1
- Phillips 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.