Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2017
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, April 2017
5 tornado watches in April 2017. 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 April 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- April 26, 20172 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 1:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 7 hr |
| Apr 21, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Logan, Miller, Montgomery and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 26, 10:08 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Clay and 51 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 30, 1:49 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ashley County3
- Chicot County3
- Hempstead County2
- Howard County2
- Little River County2
- Miller County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pike County2
- Sevier County2
- Yell County2
- Arkansas County2
- Bradley County2
- Calhoun County2
- Cleveland County2
- Columbia County2
- Dallas County2
- Desha County2
- Drew County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lincoln County2
- Monroe County2
- Ouachita County2
- Prairie County2
- Union County2
- Woodruff County2
- Logan County1
- Polk County1
- Scott County1
- Sebastian County1
- Baxter County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Cleburne County1
- Conway County1
- Craighead County1
- Cross County1
- Faulkner County1
- Fulton County1
- Garland County1
- Grant County1
23 more counties
- Greene County1
- Hot Spring County1
- Independence County1
- Izard County1
- Jackson County1
- Lafayette County1
- Lawrence County1
- Lee County1
- Lonoke County1
- Nevada County1
- Perry County1
- Phillips County1
- Poinsett County1
- Pope County1
- Pulaski County1
- Randolph County1
- St. Francis County1
- Saline County1
- Searcy County1
- Sharp County1
- Stone County1
- Van Buren County1
- White 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.