Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2017
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, March 2017
8 tornado watches in March 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 March 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- March 1, 20174 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 8:29 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Poinsett and 1 more | 12 hr |
| Feb 28, 9:04 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 7 hr |
| Feb 28, 11:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford, Faulkner and 24 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:03 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lawrence and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 6, 6:51 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 6, 9:21 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead and 31 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 29, 4:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 38 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 29, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County3
- Craighead County3
- Greene County3
- Lawrence County3
- Poinsett County3
- Randolph County3
- Benton County3
- Carroll County3
- Madison County3
- Washington County3
- Baxter County3
- Boone County3
- Cleburne County3
- Conway County3
- Crawford County3
- Faulkner County3
- Franklin County3
- Fulton County3
- Independence County3
- Izard County3
- Johnson County3
- Logan County3
- Marion County3
- Montgomery County3
- Newton County3
- Perry County3
- Polk County3
- Pope County3
- Scott County3
- Searcy County3
- Sebastian County3
- Sharp County3
- Stone County3
- Van Buren County3
- White County3
- Yell County3
- Mississippi County2
- Howard County2
- Jackson County2
- Pike County2
19 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.