Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 2025
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, May 2025
5 tornado watches in May 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 16, 20252 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 16, 11:58 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 22 more | 8 hr |
| May 16, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 30 more | 9 hr |
| May 19, 12:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 9 hr |
| May 19, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 39 more | 7 hr |
| May 20, 1:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clay and 30 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cleburne County4
- Independence County4
- Jackson County4
- Lawrence County4
- Randolph County4
- Sharp County4
- Benton County3
- Carroll County3
- Conway County3
- Crawford County3
- Franklin County3
- Fulton County3
- Izard County3
- Madison County3
- Pope County3
- Scott County3
- Sebastian County3
- Stone County3
- Van Buren County3
- Washington County3
- Yell County3
- Faulkner County3
- Lonoke County3
- Prairie County3
- Pulaski County3
- White County3
- Woodruff County3
- Baxter County2
- Boone County2
- Johnson County2
- Logan County2
- Marion County2
- Newton County2
- Searcy County2
- Clay County2
- Craighead County2
- Crittenden County2
- Cross County2
- Garland County2
- Greene County2
29 more counties
- Lee County2
- Mississippi County2
- Monroe County2
- Montgomery County2
- Perry County2
- Phillips County2
- Poinsett County2
- Polk County2
- St. Francis County2
- Saline County2
- Hempstead County1
- Howard County1
- Little River County1
- Miller County1
- Pike County1
- Sevier County1
- Arkansas County1
- Ashley County1
- Bradley County1
- Calhoun County1
- Chicot County1
- Cleveland County1
- Dallas County1
- Desha County1
- Drew County1
- Grant County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lincoln County1
- Ouachita 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.