Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2016
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, May 2016
2 tornado watches in May 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 May 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- May 9, 20161 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, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Miller, Montgomery and 5 more | 7 hr |
| May 9, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Cleburne and 53 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hempstead County2
- Howard County2
- Little River County2
- Miller County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pike County2
- Polk County2
- Scott County2
- Sevier County2
- Crawford County1
- Sebastian County1
- Arkansas County1
- Bradley County1
- Calhoun County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Cleburne County1
- Cleveland County1
- Columbia County1
- Conway County1
- Craighead County1
- Crittenden County1
- Cross County1
- Dallas County1
- Desha County1
- Drew County1
- Faulkner County1
- Garland County1
- Grant County1
- Greene County1
- Hot Spring County1
- Independence County1
- Izard County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lafayette County1
- Lawrence County1
- Lee County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
21 more counties
- Lonoke County1
- Mississippi County1
- Monroe County1
- Nevada County1
- Ouachita County1
- Perry County1
- Phillips County1
- Poinsett County1
- Pope County1
- Prairie County1
- Pulaski County1
- Randolph County1
- St. Francis County1
- Saline County1
- Sharp County1
- Stone County1
- Union County1
- Van Buren County1
- White County1
- Woodruff County1
- Yell County1
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.