Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2017
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, May 2017
7 tornado watches in May 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 May 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- May 19, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford | 7 hr |
| May 18, 10:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 21 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 11 hr |
| May 19, 9:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 14 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 10 hr |
| May 27, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crittenden, Cross, Lee, St. Francis | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Crawford County5
- Benton County4
- Carroll County4
- Franklin County4
- Madison County4
- Sebastian County4
- Washington County4
- Baxter County3
- Boone County3
- Fulton County3
- Johnson County3
- Logan County3
- Marion County3
- Newton County3
- Pope County3
- Scott County3
- Searcy County3
- Yell County3
- Cleburne County2
- Conway County2
- Independence County2
- Izard County2
- Sharp County2
- Stone County2
- Van Buren County2
- Faulkner County1
- Perry County1
- Montgomery County1
- Polk County1
- Clay County1
- Craighead County1
- Greene County1
- Jackson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Mississippi County1
- Poinsett County1
- Randolph County1
- Crittenden County1
- Cross County1
- Lee County1
1 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.