Alert archive / Tennessee

Weather alerts in Chester County, Tennessee

3,337 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Chester County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,337
Warnings
892
Watches
665
Advisories
817
Busiest year
2011256 alerts
Average year
90over 37 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

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 0% of tornado reports in Chester County fell inside a tornado warning, and 82% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200820100%0
200920100%0
20106267%0
201117194%0
2012010%
201330100%0
201450100%0
201610100%0
20174175%0
201930100%0
202010100%0
20215260%0
2022110%0
20235260%0
202420100%0
202510370%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200814657%3100%14 min
2009151033%580%25 min
2010301743%1587%21 min
2011643545%1191%31005 min
2012341556%0
201314657%2100%30 min
2014291548%667%16 min
201514750%2100%5 min
201610370%2100%21 min
201711645%1100%11 min
201814564%10%
201911555%0
2020131023%5100%13 min
202122959%475%25 min
202210640%475%16 min
2023241346%580%15 min
202413128%1100%31 min
2025372532%683%9 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200813562%1100%28 min
2009201050%10%
2010271352%250%70 min
201112467%250%320 min
20126183%0
20136267%1100%80 min
201414657%367%2 min
201511282%1100%11 min
20167271%0
2017330%0
20186183%0
201920100%0
20204325%1100%79 min
2021220%1100%187 min
2023110%0
2024110%0
202510550%0

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

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 12, 4:06 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG5 days
Jul 25, 11:17 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG3 days
Jul 2, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG48 min
Jul 1, 12:48 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG31 hr
May 6, 1:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG40 min
Apr 28, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG56 min
Apr 28, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG49 min
Apr 28, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG52 min
Apr 28, 4:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG38 min
Apr 28, 1:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG36 min
Apr 28, 12:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG49 min
Mar 16, 2:55 AM CDTFreeze WarningMEG32 hr

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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.