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Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 2022
32 tornado watches in 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 32
- Busiest month
- April9 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 13, 20225 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 11:57 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Cross, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett | 7 hr |
| Jan 1, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 9 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 17, 10:49 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Crittenden, Cross and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 21, 8:49 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 32 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 22, 3:52 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Faulkner and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 6, 2:18 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne, Conway and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 6, 7:58 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 7, 1:07 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 21, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 1:58 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Union | 5 hr |
| Mar 29, 11:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 5:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark and 50 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clay and 25 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Lafayette, Miller | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:18 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Union | 8 hr |
| Apr 11, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Columbia and 36 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 12, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 12, 11:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 4 hr |
| Apr 13, 10:37 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Columbia and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Desha and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 13, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Union | 8 hr |
| Apr 15, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Faulkner and 13 more | 4 hr |
| May 2, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Conway, Crawford, Faulkner, Franklin, Garland and 15 more | 7 hr |
| May 5, 10:13 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 4, 1:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 4, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clark, Cleburne, Columbia, Conway and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 4, 10:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 29, 12:11 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 7 hr |
| Nov 29, 6:52 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 9 hr |
| Dec 13, 9:07 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Miller, Pike, Polk and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Dec 13, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Dec 13, 6:25 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Lincoln | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Union County13
- Ashley County11
- Chicot County11
- Columbia County11
- Bradley County10
- Lafayette County10
- Faulkner County10
- Poinsett County9
- Calhoun County9
- Cleburne County9
- Independence County9
- Little River County9
- Perry County9
- Pulaski County9
- White County9
- Woodruff County9
- Miller County9
- Craighead County8
- Mississippi County8
- Cleveland County8
- Desha County8
- Drew County8
- Lincoln County8
- Monroe County8
- Conway County8
- Howard County8
- Lawrence County8
- Montgomery County8
- Pike County8
- Polk County8
- Pope County8
- Randolph County8
- Saline County8
- Sevier County8
- Sharp County8
- Van Buren County8
- Yell County8
- Jackson County8
- Lonoke County8
- Prairie County8
35 more counties
- Hempstead County8
- Nevada County8
- Clay County7
- Cross County7
- Greene County7
- Arkansas County7
- Jefferson County7
- Ouachita County7
- Garland County7
- Izard County7
- Johnson County7
- Logan County7
- Scott County7
- Stone County7
- Crittenden County6
- St. Francis County6
- Franklin County6
- Fulton County6
- Sebastian County6
- Clark County6
- Phillips County5
- Lee County5
- Baxter County5
- Boone County5
- Crawford County5
- Madison County5
- Marion County5
- Newton County5
- Searcy County5
- Dallas County5
- Hot Spring County5
- Carroll County4
- Washington County4
- Grant County4
- Benton 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.