Alert archive / Tennessee / 1997
Weather alerts in Tennessee, February 1997
61 weather alerts in February 1997, 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 February 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 61
- Warnings
- 54
- Watches
- 7
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- February 21, 199736 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 4:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 48 min |
| Feb 3, 6:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 65 min |
| Feb 3, 7:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall | 57 min |
| Feb 3, 7:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford | 60 min |
| Feb 4, 12:11 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Stewart | 3 hr |
| Feb 4, 3:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Feb 20, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Haywood, Lake, Lauderdale and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 4:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Decatur, Giles, Hardin, Henderson, Lawrence and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 6:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Humphreys | 44 min |
| Feb 21, 6:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 41 min |
| Feb 21, 6:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 53 min |
| Feb 21, 6:35 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton | 3 hr |
| Feb 21, 6:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 57 min |
| Feb 21, 6:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury | 48 min |
| Feb 21, 7:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Bradley, Campbell, Cannon and 40 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 21, 7:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Williamson | 69 min |
| Feb 21, 7:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Sumner, Wilson | 57 min |
| Feb 21, 7:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin | 46 min |
| Feb 21, 8:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Smith | 50 min |
| Feb 21, 8:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Grundy | 43 min |
| Feb 21, 8:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Jackson | 48 min |
| Feb 21, 8:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Warren | 43 min |
| Feb 21, 8:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cumberland | 67 min |
| Feb 21, 8:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Overton, Pickett | 44 min |
| Feb 21, 8:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | White | 51 min |
| Feb 21, 9:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 43 min |
| Feb 21, 9:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Fentress, Morgan | 67 min |
| Feb 21, 9:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Rhea | 64 min |
| Feb 21, 9:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 63 min |
| Feb 21, 10:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell | 57 min |
| Feb 21, 10:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Meigs, Roane | 34 min |
| Feb 21, 10:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger and 13 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 21, 10:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Knox, Union | 63 min |
| Feb 21, 10:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Loudon | 55 min |
| Feb 21, 11:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount | 59 min |
| Feb 21, 11:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Jefferson, Sevier | 66 min |
| Feb 21, 11:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger | 66 min |
| Feb 21, 11:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamblen | 65 min |
| Feb 21, 11:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hancock | 65 min |
| Feb 21, 11:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke, Greene | 55 min |
| Feb 21, 11:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hawkins | 68 min |
| Feb 21, 12:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sullivan | 6 min |
| Feb 26, 8:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 26, 10:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman, Madison | 47 min |
| Feb 26, 10:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester | 34 min |
| Feb 26, 11:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | McNairy | 47 min |
| Feb 26, 11:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin, Henderson | 33 min |
| Feb 26, 11:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Decatur | 51 min |
| Feb 27, 12:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry | 54 min |
| Feb 27, 12:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 50 min |
| Feb 27, 12:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Davidson and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 27, 12:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Houston | 50 min |
| Feb 27, 12:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 26 min |
| Feb 27, 12:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 39 min |
| Feb 27, 12:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson | 39 min |
| Feb 27, 2:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Trousdale, Wilson | 45 min |
| Feb 27, 4:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy, Sequatchie | 26 min |
| Feb 28, 5:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 26 min |
| Feb 28, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett, Decatur and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 28, 5:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Haywood | 49 min |
| Feb 28, 5:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer | 33 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 | 51 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Tornado Watch | 5 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Montgomery County7
- Houston County6
- Benton County5
- Humphreys County5
- Lawrence County4
- Giles County4
- Marshall County4
- Stewart County4
- Dyer County4
- Fayette County4
- Haywood County4
- Chester County4
- Decatur County4
- Hardin County4
- Henderson County4
- McNairy County4
- Madison County4
- Maury County4
- Perry County4
- Wayne County4
- Wilson County4
- Dickson County4
- Bedford County3
- Crockett County3
- Lake County3
- Lauderdale County3
- Obion County3
- Shelby County3
- Tipton County3
- Lewis County3
- Lincoln County3
- Anderson County3
- Campbell County3
- Cannon County3
- Coffee County3
- Davidson County3
- DeKalb County3
- Franklin County3
- Grundy County3
- Jackson County3
53 more counties
- Loudon County3
- Robertson County3
- Rutherford County3
- Smith County3
- Sumner County3
- Trousdale County3
- Warren County3
- Williamson County3
- Cheatham County3
- Hardeman County3
- Clay County2
- Cumberland County2
- Fentress County2
- Macon County2
- Meigs County2
- Monroe County2
- Moore County2
- Morgan County2
- Overton County2
- Pickett County2
- Polk County2
- Putnam County2
- Rhea County2
- Roane County2
- Scott County2
- Sequatchie County2
- White County2
- Blount County2
- Claiborne County2
- Cocke County2
- Grainger County2
- Greene County2
- Hamblen County2
- Hancock County2
- Hawkins County2
- Jefferson County2
- Knox County2
- Sevier County2
- Union County2
- Carroll County2
- Gibson County2
- Henry County2
- Weakley County2
- Hickman County2
- Bledsoe County1
- Bradley County1
- Hamilton County1
- McMinn County1
- Marion County1
- Van Buren County1
- Unicoi County1
- Washington County1
- Sullivan 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. Rebuilt daily.