Weather alerts in Tennessee, May 1988

30 weather alerts in May 1988, 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 in May 1988. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 30
Warnings: 30
Watches: 0
Advisories: 0
Busiest day: May 10, 19888 alerts

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 3, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lake	25 min
May 3, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer	34 min
May 3, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Obion	27 min
May 3, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tipton	29 min
May 3, 6:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Gibson, Weakley	25 min
May 7, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Campbell	24 min
May 7, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Claiborne, Union	30 min
May 9, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin	50 min
May 9, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson, Sumner	61 min
May 9, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Claiborne, Union	60 min
May 9, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Montgomery, Robertson	59 min
May 9, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	59 min
May 9, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Humphreys	59 min
May 9, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Fentress, Scott	50 min
May 9, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Wilson	48 min
May 9, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Fentress, Morgan	46 min
May 9, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Campbell, Union	45 min
May 12, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	47 min
May 14, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hamilton, Marion, Meigs	43 min
May 14, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	McMinn	43 min
May 16, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Perry	45 min
May 16, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Overton	51 min
May 16, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cumberland, Fentress	49 min
May 22, 4:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Shelby	48 min
May 22, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby, Tipton	51 min
May 22, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Shelby, Tipton	61 min
May 22, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lauderdale	53 min
May 22, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	McNairy	47 min
May 22, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	McNairy	28 min
May 22, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	McNairy	31 min

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	27
Tornado Warning	3

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 1987 1989

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.