Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2023
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, August 2023
3 tornado watches in August 2023. 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 August 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- August 10, 20232 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 9, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 9, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee and 3 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County1
- Carroll County1
- Crawford County1
- Franklin County1
- Madison County1
- Sebastian County1
- Washington County1
- Baxter County1
- Boone County1
- Cleburne County1
- Conway County1
- Faulkner County1
- Fulton County1
- Independence County1
- Izard County1
- Jackson County1
- Johnson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Logan County1
- Lonoke County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Newton County1
- Perry County1
- Pope County1
- Prairie County1
- Pulaski County1
- Randolph County1
- Saline County1
- Scott County1
- Searcy County1
- Sharp County1
- Stone County1
- Van Buren County1
- White County1
- Woodruff County1
- Yell County1
- Clay County1
- Craighead County1
- Crittenden 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.