Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2020
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, May 2020
3 tornado watches in May 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 May 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20201 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County2
- Carroll County2
- Crawford County2
- Franklin County2
- Madison County2
- Sebastian County2
- Washington County2
- Montgomery County2
- Polk County2
- Calhoun County1
- Clark County1
- Columbia County1
- Dallas County1
- Garland County1
- Hempstead County1
- Hot Spring County1
- Howard County1
- Lafayette County1
- Little River County1
- Miller County1
- Nevada County1
- Ouachita County1
- Pike County1
- Sevier County1
- Union County1
- Johnson County1
- Logan County1
- Scott County1
- Yell 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.