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Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 2021

24 tornado watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
24
Busiest month
March8 tornado watches
Busiest day
March 17, 20215 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 28, 2:22 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Cleburne and 32 more8 hr
Mar 17, 5:53 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Bradley, Cleveland, Crittenden, Desha, Drew and 8 more7 hr
Mar 17, 7:47 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCalhoun, Clark, Conway, Dallas, Faulkner, Garland and 15 more5 hr
Mar 17, 8:43 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCColumbia, Union4 hr
Mar 17, 12:57 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAshley, Chicot, Lee, Phillips6 hr
Mar 17, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 12 more7 hr
Mar 27, 1:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCrittenden, Cross, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips, Poinsett and 1 more7 hr
Mar 27, 3:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 31 more10 hr
Mar 27, 9:01 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Chicot, Crittenden, Lee, Phillips, St. Francis7 hr
Apr 7, 12:38 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Carroll and 55 more7 hr
Apr 28, 3:01 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Washington7 hr
Apr 28, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford, Faulkner, Franklin and 18 more6 hr
Apr 29, 2:01 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Hempstead, Hot Spring and 17 more6 hr
May 2, 4:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChicot, Phillips5 hr
May 4, 10:52 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Columbia, Desha and 2 more7 hr
Oct 10, 9:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more5 hr
Oct 10, 11:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Logan, Miller and 6 more5 hr
Oct 24, 3:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 21 more7 hr
Oct 24, 10:34 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Cross, Faulkner and 20 more4 hr
Dec 10, 3:07 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway and 37 more11 hr
Dec 10, 6:34 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCColumbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 2 more4 hr
Dec 10, 6:51 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 10 more4 hr
Dec 10, 10:44 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 16 more6 hr
Dec 29, 12:05 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 12 more7 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

35 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 17, 20215tornado watches
  2. December 11, 20213tornado watches
  3. March 27, 20212tornado watches
  4. April 29, 20212tornado watches
  5. October 11, 20212tornado watches
  6. February 28, 20211tornado watches
  7. March 28, 20211tornado watches
  8. April 7, 20211tornado watches
  9. April 28, 20211tornado watches
  10. May 2, 20211tornado watches
  11. May 4, 20211tornado watches
  12. October 24, 20211tornado watches

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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. Rebuilt daily.