Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2020
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, April 2020
7 tornado watches in April 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 April 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- April 12, 20202 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Little River County2
- Miller County2
- Sevier County2
- Baxter County1
- Clay County1
- Fulton County1
- Greene County1
- Izard County1
- Lawrence County1
- Randolph County1
- Sharp County1
- Craighead County1
- Crittenden County1
- Cross County1
- Mississippi County1
- Poinsett County1
- Union County1
- Ashley County1
- Bradley County1
- Chicot County1
- Desha County1
- Drew County1
- Clark County1
- Columbia County1
- Garland County1
- Hempstead County1
- Hot Spring County1
- Howard County1
- Lafayette County1
- Montgomery County1
- Nevada County1
- Pike County1
- Polk County1
- Scott County1
- Benton County1
- Carroll County1
- Crawford County1
- Franklin County1
- Madison County1
- Sebastian 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.