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Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 2018

24 tornado watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
24
Busiest month
April7 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 14, 20183 tornado watches

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 21, 3:05 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Hempstead and 16 more8 hr
Jan 21, 9:59 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 37 more6 hr
Feb 24, 11:01 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 43 more8 hr
Feb 24, 3:16 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCClay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lawrence and 6 more8 hr
Mar 28, 3:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Chicot8 hr
Apr 3, 1:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark and 51 more7 hr
Apr 6, 3:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCColumbia, Lafayette, Miller, Union8 hr
Apr 13, 1:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more9 hr
Apr 13, 1:50 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCBaxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 43 more8 hr
Apr 13, 7:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Ashley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Lincoln and 1 more3 hr
Apr 13, 9:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 37 more8 hr
Apr 13, 10:12 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Chicot, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 8 more10 hr
May 31, 1:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Greene, Lawrence, Randolph6 hr
Jul 20, 6:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCrittenden, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips, St. Francis8 hr
Aug 19, 4:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Crawford and 14 more7 hr
Oct 9, 12:17 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 9 more8 hr
Oct 31, 3:02 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCColumbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 2 more9 hr
Oct 31, 4:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas and 19 more8 hr
Oct 31, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Chicot, Union8 hr
Oct 31, 11:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCPhillips9 hr
Nov 5, 4:06 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Chicot, Union7 hr
Nov 5, 7:04 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Bradley, Crittenden, Desha, Drew, Lee and 4 more8 hr
Nov 30, 6:40 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Baxter, Benton, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun and 63 more7 hr
Dec 1, 1:58 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 33 more5 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

35 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 14, 20183tornado watches
  2. February 24, 20182tornado watches
  3. April 13, 20182tornado watches
  4. October 31, 20182tornado watches
  5. November 1, 20182tornado watches
  6. December 1, 20182tornado watches
  7. January 21, 20181tornado watches
  8. January 22, 20181tornado watches
  9. March 28, 20181tornado watches
  10. April 3, 20181tornado watches
  11. April 6, 20181tornado watches
  12. May 31, 20181tornado watches

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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.