Alert archive / Tennessee / 1996
Weather alerts in Tennessee, May 1996
159 weather alerts in May 1996, 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 1996. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 159
- Warnings
- 159
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 27, 199641 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 5, 9:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Fentress | 34 min |
| May 5, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Johnson | 17 min |
| May 5, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lake | 38 min |
| May 6, 5:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke, Sevier | 49 min |
| May 6, 9:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 3 hr |
| May 6, 11:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton | 49 min |
| May 6, 11:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Montgomery | 39 min |
| May 6, 11:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley | 61 min |
| May 6, 12:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Bradley | 116 min |
| May 6, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin, Moore | 32 min |
| May 6, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin | 28 min |
| May 6, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henderson | 38 min |
| May 6, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Haywood | 54 min |
| May 6, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 45 min |
| May 11, 11:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke | 41 min |
| May 11, 12:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Unicoi | 49 min |
| May 11, 12:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter | 41 min |
| May 21, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Fentress | 45 min |
| May 21, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hawkins, Sullivan | 61 min |
| May 24, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Washington | 59 min |
| May 24, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter, Sullivan | 64 min |
| May 24, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marion | 47 min |
| May 24, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Johnson | 61 min |
| May 24, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Loudon | 55 min |
| May 24, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter, Sullivan | 65 min |
| May 24, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Union | 66 min |
| May 24, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marion | 56 min |
| May 24, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 32 min |
| May 24, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount | 61 min |
| May 24, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Rhea | 54 min |
| May 24, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Knox | 64 min |
| May 24, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 55 min |
| May 24, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton | 62 min |
| May 24, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Morgan | 55 min |
| May 24, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Loudon | 61 min |
| May 24, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cumberland, Fentress | 56 min |
| May 24, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin | 66 min |
| May 24, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Roane | 49 min |
| May 24, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Jefferson | 61 min |
| May 24, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hancock | 61 min |
| May 24, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley | 58 min |
| May 24, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell, Claiborne | 63 min |
| May 24, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamblen | 62 min |
| May 24, 11:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Washington | 3 hr |
| May 24, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Meigs, Rhea | 63 min |
| May 24, 11:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Carter | 2 hr |
| May 24, 11:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Hancock | 2 hr |
| May 25, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | McMinn, Monroe | 63 min |
| May 25, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Greene, Washington | 59 min |
| May 25, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley | 69 min |
| May 25, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | McMinn, Monroe | 56 min |
| May 25, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Meigs, Rhea | 61 min |
| May 25, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter, Unicoi | 56 min |
| May 25, 12:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount | 69 min |
| May 25, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Polk | 62 min |
| May 25, 1:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Rhea | 4 hr |
| May 25, 2:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Washington | 3 hr |
| May 25, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sullivan | 39 min |
| May 25, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hawkins, Sullivan, Washington | 65 min |
| May 25, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Greene, Washington | 59 min |
| May 26, 6:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger | 40 min |
| May 26, 11:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Pickett | 53 min |
| May 26, 11:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan | 61 min |
| May 26, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 50 min |
| May 26, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 28 min |
| May 26, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion | 25 min |
| May 26, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | McMinn, Meigs | 50 min |
| May 26, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Putnam | 52 min |
| May 26, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Overton | 53 min |
| May 26, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy, Sequatchie | 43 min |
| May 26, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner, Wilson | 54 min |
| May 26, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cumberland, Fentress | 44 min |
| May 26, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, Polk | 69 min |
| May 26, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon, Smith, Trousdale | 44 min |
| May 26, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee | 46 min |
| May 26, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 51 min |
| May 26, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Warren | 53 min |
| May 26, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 49 min |
| May 26, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 58 min |
| May 26, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon | 44 min |
| May 27, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 53 min |
| May 27, 11:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion | 46 min |
| May 27, 11:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 42 min |
| May 27, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 32 min |
| May 27, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon, Trousdale | 41 min |
| May 27, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Trousdale, Wilson | 57 min |
| May 27, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 67 min |
| May 27, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Stewart | 64 min |
| May 27, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 64 min |
| May 27, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 37 min |
| May 27, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Montgomery | 53 min |
| May 27, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 53 min |
| May 27, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Robertson | 44 min |
| May 27, 2:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Williamson | 51 min |
| May 27, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis, Wayne | 45 min |
| May 27, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin | 27 min |
| May 27, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury | 40 min |
| May 27, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Sumner, Wilson | 38 min |
| May 27, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Marshall | 53 min |
| May 27, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 46 min |
| May 27, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 45 min |
| May 27, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 45 min |
| May 27, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 44 min |
| May 27, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Knox, Union | 63 min |
| May 27, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Roane | 63 min |
| May 27, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy | 53 min |
| May 27, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin, Marion | 50 min |
| May 27, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sequatchie, Van Buren | 50 min |
| May 27, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger, Jefferson | 55 min |
| May 27, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Rhea | 59 min |
| May 27, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cumberland | 58 min |
| May 27, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Meigs | 58 min |
| May 27, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Knox, Loudon, Roane | 67 min |
| May 27, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | McMinn | 60 min |
| May 27, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Meigs | 53 min |
| May 27, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bradley | 45 min |
| May 27, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Monroe | 56 min |
| May 27, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke | 66 min |
| May 27, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Polk | 68 min |
| May 27, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson | 68 min |
| May 27, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount | 68 min |
| May 27, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sevier | 55 min |
| May 27, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 38 min |
| May 27, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 38 min |
| May 27, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 30 min |
| May 27, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 25 min |
| May 27, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry | 44 min |
| May 27, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 34 min |
| May 27, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Madison | 38 min |
| May 27, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 40 min |
| May 28, 3:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | McMinn, Meigs | 58 min |
| May 28, 3:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Rhea | 58 min |
| May 28, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Madison | 46 min |
| May 28, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Haywood | 33 min |
| May 28, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll | 36 min |
| May 28, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Madison | 31 min |
| May 28, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henry | 32 min |
| May 28, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Haywood | 33 min |
| May 28, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 33 min |
| May 28, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 48 min |
| May 28, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Humphreys | 49 min |
| May 28, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester | 28 min |
| May 28, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Montgomery | 41 min |
| May 28, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman, McNairy | 44 min |
| May 28, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 35 min |
| May 28, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin | 36 min |
| May 28, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin | 30 min |
| May 28, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 54 min |
| May 28, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 32 min |
| May 28, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Pickett | 40 min |
| May 28, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 49 min |
| May 28, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 49 min |
| May 28, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Fentress | 68 min |
| May 28, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 40 min |
| May 28, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Fentress | 56 min |
| May 28, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Hancock | 55 min |
| May 29, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hancock, Hawkins | 59 min |
| May 29, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sullivan | 55 min |
| May 29, 1:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Johnson | 59 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 | 144 |
| Tornado Warning | 8 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 7 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fentress County6
- Bradley County6
- Sullivan County6
- Washington County6
- Rhea County6
- Meigs County6
- Fayette County5
- Hardeman County5
- Carter County5
- McMinn County5
- Shelby County5
- Hamilton County4
- Franklin County4
- Hancock County4
- Rutherford County4
- Wilson County4
- Benton County4
- Johnson County3
- Cocke County3
- Humphreys County3
- Dickson County3
- Montgomery County3
- Haywood County3
- Hawkins County3
- Marion County3
- Loudon County3
- Blount County3
- Knox County3
- Anderson County3
- Cumberland County3
- Roane County3
- Jefferson County3
- Monroe County3
- Polk County3
- Grainger County3
- DeKalb County3
- Sumner County3
- Macon County3
- Trousdale County3
- Wayne County3
44 more counties
- Hardin County3
- Madison County3
- Sevier County2
- Unicoi County2
- Union County2
- Putnam County2
- Morgan County2
- Claiborne County2
- Hamblen County2
- Greene County2
- Clay County2
- Pickett County2
- Cannon County2
- Obion County2
- Grundy County2
- Sequatchie County2
- Coffee County2
- Hickman County2
- Robertson County2
- Houston County2
- Chester County2
- Lake County1
- Moore County1
- Henderson County1
- Scott County1
- Campbell County1
- Overton County1
- Smith County1
- Warren County1
- Stewart County1
- Cheatham County1
- Davidson County1
- Williamson County1
- Lewis County1
- Maury County1
- Giles County1
- Lawrence County1
- Marshall County1
- Bedford County1
- Van Buren County1
- Perry County1
- Carroll County1
- Henry County1
- McNairy County1
Nearby
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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. Rebuilt daily.