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Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 2024

33 tornado watches in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
33
Busiest month
May14 tornado watches
Busiest day
May 26, 20244 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
Jan 11, 9:56 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Columbia and 34 more6 hr
Jan 12, 3:57 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 26 more7 hr
Mar 14, 1:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 8 more7 hr
Mar 14, 4:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCalhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Columbia, Conway, Dallas and 36 more7 hr
Mar 14, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett7 hr
Mar 25, 1:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Drew, Union6 hr
Apr 26, 5:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCalhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas, Faulkner and 16 more5 hr
Apr 28, 1:03 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more6 hr
Apr 28, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson, Logan and 5 more6 hr
Apr 28, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBradley, Calhoun, Columbia, Lafayette, Ouachita, Union8 hr
Apr 28, 8:54 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Ashley, Chicot, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas and 6 more3 hr
May 6, 10:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 28 more9 hr
May 8, 12:56 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden and 29 more5 hr
May 8, 2:18 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Howard and 15 more8 hr
May 8, 3:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 1 more9 hr
May 8, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Baxter, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Conway and 38 more7 hr
May 21, 2:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Washington7 hr
May 21, 8:18 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner and 25 more6 hr
May 25, 9:04 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more8 hr
May 26, 2:35 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Boone, Clay, Fulton, Greene, Izard and 7 more7 hr
May 26, 3:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Madison, Washington5 hr
May 26, 4:01 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCBaxter, Boone, Clay, Craighead, Fulton, Greene and 12 more7 hr
May 26, 10:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 10 more5 hr
May 26, 11:18 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 14 more4 hr
May 27, 1:10 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Chicot5 hr
Jul 8, 10:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCColumbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 1 more12 hr
Jul 8, 3:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 29 more10 hr
Oct 30, 5:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Washington9 hr
Nov 3, 1:40 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington5 hr
Nov 3, 7:41 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCrawford, Franklin, Sebastian4 hr
Nov 4, 1:35 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 14 more9 hr
Nov 4, 5:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCHempstead, Howard, Little River, Miller, Sevier6 hr
Dec 28, 2:17 PM CSTTornado Watch PDSSPCAshley, Chicot8 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. May 26, 20244tornado watches
  2. March 14, 20243tornado watches
  3. April 28, 20243tornado watches
  4. May 8, 20243tornado watches
  5. May 27, 20243tornado watches
  6. November 4, 20243tornado watches
  7. January 12, 20242tornado watches
  8. July 8, 20242tornado watches
  9. March 25, 20241tornado watches
  10. April 26, 20241tornado watches
  11. April 29, 20241tornado watches
  12. May 7, 20241tornado 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.