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Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 2016

16 tornado watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
16
Busiest month
March8 tornado watches
Busiest day
March 13, 20162 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
Feb 2, 12:22 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCChicot, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene and 5 more9 hr
Mar 8, 12:41 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCColumbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 3 more5 hr
Mar 13, 12:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCrawford, Franklin, Sebastian6 hr
Mar 13, 2:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 37 more5 hr
Mar 13, 7:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 39 more6 hr
Mar 30, 2:31 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia and 23 more7 hr
Mar 30, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Chicot, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Lee and 4 more8 hr
Mar 30, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Bradley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Union6 hr
Mar 31, 2:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCLee, Phillips7 hr
Apr 29, 1:43 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas and 10 more8 hr
May 9, 2:36 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCrawford, Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Miller, Montgomery and 5 more7 hr
May 9, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Cleburne and 53 more8 hr
Nov 28, 11:08 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCColumbia, Lafayette, Union6 hr
Nov 29, 1:48 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Chicot7 hr
Dec 17, 1:42 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Bradley, Clay, Cleveland, Craighead, Crittenden and 17 more7 hr
Dec 17, 8:58 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Bradley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Phillips and 1 more6 hr

By county

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

25 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 13, 20162tornado watches
  2. March 30, 20162tornado watches
  3. March 31, 20162tornado watches
  4. February 2, 20161tornado watches
  5. March 8, 20161tornado watches
  6. March 14, 20161tornado watches
  7. April 29, 20161tornado watches
  8. May 9, 20161tornado watches
  9. May 10, 20161tornado watches
  10. November 28, 20161tornado watches
  11. November 29, 20161tornado watches
  12. December 17, 20161tornado 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.