Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2019
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, May 2019
15 tornado watches in May 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 May 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 15
- Busiest day
- May 21, 20193 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Carroll County7
- Baxter County6
- Boone County6
- Crawford County6
- Franklin County6
- Madison County6
- Marion County6
- Newton County6
- Sebastian County6
- Johnson County5
- Logan County5
- Polk County5
- Pope County5
- Scott County5
- Searcy County5
- Yell County5
- Cleburne County5
- Benton County5
- Faulkner County5
- Garland County5
- Montgomery County5
- Perry County5
- Columbia County4
- Hempstead County4
- Lafayette County4
- Miller County4
- Washington County4
- Conway County4
- Fulton County4
- Pike County4
- Pulaski County4
- Saline County4
- Stone County4
- Van Buren County4
- Independence County3
- Jackson County3
- Prairie County3
- Sharp County3
- White County3
- Nevada County3
31 more counties
- Calhoun County3
- Cleveland County3
- Ouachita County3
- Clark County3
- Dallas County3
- Grant County3
- Hot Spring County3
- Howard County3
- Izard County3
- Little River County3
- Sevier County3
- Lawrence County2
- Randolph County2
- Woodruff County2
- Bradley County2
- Desha County2
- Drew County2
- Lincoln County2
- Union County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lonoke County2
- Clay County1
- Craighead County1
- Cross County1
- Greene County1
- Poinsett County1
- Mississippi County1
- Ashley County1
- Chicot County1
- Arkansas County1
- Monroe 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.