Alert archive / Tennessee

Weather alerts in Benton County, Tennessee

3,216 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Benton County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
3,216
Warnings
879
Watches
601
Advisories
760
Busiest year
2025194 alerts
Average year
92over 35 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.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 20, 1:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMEG49 min
Aug 20, 12:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMEG48 min
Aug 20, 12:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMEG49 min
Aug 12, 4:06 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG5 days
Jul 26, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG48 min
Jul 26, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG42 min
Jul 25, 11:17 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG3 days
Jul 5, 3:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMEG3 hr
Jul 5, 2:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG38 min
Jul 2, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG44 min
Jul 2, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG50 min
Jul 1, 12:48 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG31 hr

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.