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Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 2019
33 tornado watches in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 33
- Busiest month
- May15 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- October 21, 20195 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 12:26 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Cleveland, Crittenden and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:32 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Chicot, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden and 15 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 9, 11:05 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Lafayette, Union | 4 hr |
| Mar 9, 1:58 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 5 hr |
| Mar 14, 5:28 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clay and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 13, 2:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 10 hr |
| Apr 30, 12:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 13 hr |
| Apr 30, 10:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 10 more | 4 hr |
| May 2, 2:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Cross, Greene, Independence and 8 more | 5 hr |
| May 2, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mississippi | 5 hr |
| May 8, 2:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada | 6 hr |
| May 8, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland, Desha and 4 more | 5 hr |
| May 18, 9:10 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 8 hr |
| May 18, 12:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark and 42 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Lafayette, Union | 7 hr |
| May 20, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 27 more | 8 hr |
| May 21, 12:18 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 21, 5:09 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 9 hr |
| May 21, 11:32 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton and 19 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll | 8 hr |
| May 29, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford and 32 more | 9 hr |
| May 29, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas, Faulkner and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Clark, Columbia, Dallas, Garland, Hempstead and 12 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 20, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 20, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 20, 11:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark and 41 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 21, 1:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 21, 3:06 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 26, 3:42 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland, Desha and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 26, 4:41 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead and 29 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 30, 11:38 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 16, 10:40 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Union | 9 hr |
| Dec 28, 3:49 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Howard and 10 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Carroll County10
- Ashley County9
- Chicot County9
- Columbia County9
- Lafayette County9
- Crawford County9
- Franklin County9
- Madison County9
- Sebastian County9
- Cleveland County8
- Desha County8
- Drew County8
- Lincoln County8
- Union County8
- Calhoun County8
- Benton County8
- Baxter County8
- Boone County8
- Newton County8
- Polk County8
- Arkansas County7
- Bradley County7
- Jefferson County7
- Prairie County7
- Dallas County7
- Grant County7
- Ouachita County7
- Washington County7
- Johnson County7
- Logan County7
- Marion County7
- Pope County7
- Scott County7
- Searcy County7
- Yell County7
- Cleburne County7
- Hempstead County7
- Miller County7
- Nevada County7
- Faulkner County7
35 more counties
- Garland County7
- Howard County7
- Little River County7
- Montgomery County7
- Perry County7
- Sevier County7
- Lonoke County6
- Woodruff County6
- Jackson County6
- Conway County6
- Fulton County6
- Pike County6
- Pulaski County6
- Saline County6
- Stone County6
- Van Buren County6
- Lee County5
- Phillips County5
- St. Francis County5
- Clay County5
- Craighead County5
- Cross County5
- Greene County5
- Monroe County5
- Poinsett County5
- Lawrence County5
- Randolph County5
- Independence County5
- Sharp County5
- White County5
- Clark County5
- Hot Spring County5
- Izard County5
- Crittenden County4
- Mississippi County4
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.