Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 2020
24 tornado watches in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 24
- Busiest month
- April7 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- January 10, 20202 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 10:42 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 10 hr |
| Jan 10, 5:34 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark and 50 more | 11 hr |
| Jan 10, 11:58 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 11, 12:28 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Union | 8 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:21 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Fulton and 14 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 12, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Conway and 42 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 19, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 48 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 19, 9:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Cross, Dallas and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 2:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Clay and 42 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 28, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Mississippi and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 8, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Fulton, Greene, Izard, Lawrence and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 8, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett | 7 hr |
| Apr 12, 5:52 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Union | 8 hr |
| Apr 12, 10:41 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Desha, Drew | 10 hr |
| Apr 22, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Little River, Miller, Sevier | 4 hr |
| Apr 24, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Columbia, Garland, Hempstead, Hot Spring, Howard and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 8 hr |
| May 4, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 9 hr |
| May 16, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Clark, Columbia, Dallas, Garland, Hempstead and 12 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson, Logan and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 27, 7:47 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 19 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 27, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 26 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 1, 3:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Faulkner and 16 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 14, 5:14 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 20 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cleburne County9
- Independence County9
- Lawrence County9
- Randolph County9
- Sharp County9
- Mississippi County9
- Clark County8
- Fulton County8
- Grant County8
- Hot Spring County8
- Izard County8
- Jackson County8
- Lonoke County8
- Prairie County8
- Pulaski County8
- Saline County8
- Craighead County8
- Cross County8
- Poinsett County8
- Baxter County7
- Dallas County7
- Faulkner County7
- Garland County7
- Jefferson County7
- Stone County7
- White County7
- Woodruff County7
- Clay County7
- Greene County7
- Benton County6
- Carroll County6
- Crawford County6
- Franklin County6
- Madison County6
- Sebastian County6
- Washington County6
- Little River County6
- Marion County6
- Montgomery County6
- Nevada County6
35 more counties
- Pike County6
- Polk County6
- Searcy County6
- Sevier County6
- Van Buren County6
- Crittenden County6
- Lee County6
- Phillips County6
- Arkansas County5
- Boone County5
- Columbia County5
- Conway County5
- Desha County5
- Hempstead County5
- Howard County5
- Johnson County5
- Logan County5
- Miller County5
- Monroe County5
- Newton County5
- Ouachita County5
- Perry County5
- Pope County5
- Scott County5
- Union County5
- Yell County5
- St. Francis County5
- Bradley County4
- Calhoun County4
- Drew County4
- Lafayette County4
- Lincoln County4
- Ashley County4
- Chicot County4
- Cleveland County3
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.