Weather alerts in Tennessee
65,000 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 65,000
- Warnings
- 31,635
- Watches
- 2,473
- Advisories
- 10,499
- Busiest year
- 20253,405 alerts
- Average year
- 1,585over 41 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Shelby County4,826
- Davidson County4,627
- Fayette County4,098
- Lauderdale County4,095
- Wilson County3,974
- Tipton County3,967
- Williamson County3,945
- Dyer County3,884
- Blount County3,876
- Sumner County3,794
- Rutherford County3,737
- Madison County3,734
- Franklin County3,730
- Hardeman County3,675
- Monroe County3,624
- Hardin County3,619
- Gibson County3,614
- Sevier County3,608
- Hickman County3,603
- Haywood County3,594
- Lincoln County3,576
- Decatur County3,567
- Maury County3,543
- Obion County3,534
- Lawrence County3,506
- Carroll County3,504
- Dickson County3,503
- Cheatham County3,482
- Robertson County3,478
- Montgomery County3,469
- McNairy County3,442
- Weakley County3,430
- Henderson County3,421
- Crockett County3,397
- Giles County3,378
- Hamilton County3,375
- Lake County3,374
- Humphreys County3,353
- Henry County3,344
- Perry County3,341
55 more counties
- Chester County3,337
- Wayne County3,320
- Greene County3,310
- Cocke County3,276
- Benton County3,216
- Knox County3,212
- Marshall County3,159
- Stewart County3,158
- Smith County3,138
- Putnam County3,126
- Bedford County3,102
- Moore County3,036
- Lewis County3,029
- Trousdale County3,028
- Houston County3,007
- Jackson County2,983
- Overton County2,978
- DeKalb County2,961
- Macon County2,943
- Marion County2,919
- McMinn County2,907
- Cannon County2,900
- Anderson County2,900
- Warren County2,861
- Campbell County2,860
- Morgan County2,859
- Polk County2,859
- White County2,844
- Coffee County2,831
- Cumberland County2,828
- Scott County2,818
- Carter County2,815
- Rhea County2,806
- Roane County2,806
- Bledsoe County2,794
- Bradley County2,785
- Fentress County2,767
- Loudon County2,755
- Sequatchie County2,750
- Clay County2,742
- Meigs County2,716
- Pickett County2,584
- Claiborne County2,576
- Grundy County2,555
- Van Buren County2,534
- Union County2,512
- Grainger County2,503
- Jefferson County2,498
- Johnson County2,496
- Sullivan County2,477
- Hawkins County2,476
- Unicoi County2,421
- Hancock County2,345
- Washington County2,296
- Hamblen County2,234
The latest warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Hancock | 28 min |
| Sep 21, 9:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Jackson, Overton | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 9:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 5 hr |
| Sep 21, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam, White | 31 min |
| Sep 21, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lincoln | 43 min |
| Sep 21, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lincoln | 38 min |
| Sep 21, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sullivan | 52 min |
| Sep 21, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lincoln | 41 min |
| Sep 21, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Marion | 35 min |
| Sep 21, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell, Claiborne | 43 min |
| Sep 21, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan | 49 min |
| Sep 20, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Marion, Sequatchie | 49 min |
Nearby
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. Rebuilt daily.