Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2024
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, May 2024
14 tornado watches in May 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 May 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 14
- Busiest day
- May 26, 20244 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 10:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 28 more | 9 hr |
| May 8, 12:56 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden and 29 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 2:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Howard and 15 more | 8 hr |
| May 8, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 1 more | 9 hr |
| May 8, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Conway and 38 more | 7 hr |
| May 21, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Washington | 7 hr |
| May 21, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner and 25 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 8 hr |
| May 26, 2:35 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clay, Fulton, Greene, Izard and 7 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 3:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 5 hr |
| May 26, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clay, Craighead, Fulton, Greene and 12 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 10:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 10 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 11:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 14 more | 4 hr |
| May 27, 1:10 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jackson County6
- Lawrence County6
- Baxter County5
- Benton County5
- Boone County5
- Carroll County5
- Fulton County5
- Independence County5
- Izard County5
- Madison County5
- Marion County5
- Newton County5
- Randolph County5
- Searcy County5
- Sharp County5
- Stone County5
- Washington County5
- White County5
- Clay County5
- Greene County5
- Cleburne County4
- Crawford County4
- Faulkner County4
- Howard County4
- Logan County4
- Perry County4
- Pope County4
- Scott County4
- Sevier County4
- Yell County4
- Arkansas County4
- Craighead County4
- Lonoke County4
- Mississippi County4
- Monroe County4
- Poinsett County4
- Prairie County4
- Woodruff County4
- Conway County3
- Franklin County3
35 more counties
- Johnson County3
- Polk County3
- Sebastian County3
- Van Buren County3
- Clark County3
- Crittenden County3
- Cross County3
- Grant County3
- Hempstead County3
- Lee County3
- Little River County3
- Montgomery County3
- Nevada County3
- Phillips County3
- Pulaski County3
- St. Francis County3
- Saline County3
- Garland County2
- Hot Spring County2
- Pike County2
- Lafayette County2
- Miller County2
- Jefferson County2
- Ashley County2
- Chicot County2
- Bradley County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cleveland County1
- Columbia County1
- Dallas County1
- Desha County1
- Drew County1
- Lincoln County1
- Ouachita County1
- Union County1
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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.