Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2021
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, March 2021
8 tornado watches in March 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 March 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- March 17, 20215 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 5:53 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Cleveland, Crittenden, Desha, Drew and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 17, 7:47 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Clark, Conway, Dallas, Faulkner, Garland and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 17, 8:43 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Union | 4 hr |
| Mar 17, 12:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Lee, Phillips | 6 hr |
| Mar 17, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips, Poinsett and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 27, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 31 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 27, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Crittenden, Lee, Phillips, St. Francis | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lee County4
- Phillips County4
- Crittenden County3
- St. Francis County3
- Montgomery County3
- Ashley County3
- Chicot County3
- Arkansas County2
- Bradley County2
- Cleveland County2
- Desha County2
- Drew County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lonoke County2
- Monroe County2
- Prairie County2
- Calhoun County2
- Clark County2
- Dallas County2
- Faulkner County2
- Garland County2
- Grant County2
- Hot Spring County2
- Johnson County2
- Logan County2
- Ouachita County2
- Perry County2
- Pike County2
- Polk County2
- Pope County2
- Pulaski County2
- Saline County2
- Scott County2
- Yell County2
- Columbia County2
- Union County2
- Conway County1
- Van Buren County1
- Benton County1
23 more counties
- Boone County1
- Carroll County1
- Crawford County1
- Franklin County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Newton County1
- Searcy County1
- Sebastian County1
- Washington County1
- Cross County1
- Mississippi County1
- Poinsett County1
- Hempstead County1
- Howard County1
- Jackson County1
- Lafayette County1
- Little River County1
- Miller County1
- Nevada County1
- Sevier County1
- White County1
- Woodruff 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. Rebuilt daily.