Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2016
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, March 2016
8 tornado watches in March 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 March 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- March 13, 20162 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 8, 12:41 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 13, 12:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 6 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 37 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 13, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 39 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia and 23 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 30, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Lee and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Union | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lee, Phillips | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Union County5
- Columbia County4
- Hempstead County4
- Nevada County4
- Ashley County4
- Bradley County4
- Chicot County4
- Desha County4
- Drew County4
- Howard County3
- Lafayette County3
- Little River County3
- Miller County3
- Sevier County3
- Arkansas County3
- Calhoun County3
- Clark County3
- Cleveland County3
- Dallas County3
- Grant County3
- Hot Spring County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lincoln County3
- Lonoke County3
- Monroe County3
- Ouachita County3
- Pike County3
- Prairie County3
- White County3
- Woodruff County3
- Lee County3
- Phillips County3
- Conway County2
- Faulkner County2
- Garland County2
- Montgomery County2
- Perry County2
- Pulaski County2
- Saline County2
- Yell County2
18 more counties
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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.