Alert archive / Tennessee

Weather alerts in Cumberland County, Tennessee

2,828 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Cumberland County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,828
Warnings
730
Watches
497
Advisories
715
Busiest year
2011155 alerts
Average year
71over 40 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, 67% of tornado reports in Cumberland County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 20 minutes before, and 77% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200820100%0
20096350%3100%14 min
20117186%1100%21 min
20123167%2100%21 min
2014110%0
2015110%0
201620100%0
201730100%0
201830100%0
201910100%0
20204175%10%
20216267%250%15 min
202310100%20%
202430100%0
20259278%1100%43 min
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20088275%367%4 min
200913285%333%19 min
201020765%786%13 min
2011331748%1369%18 min
201218856%757%29 min
201310550%333%15 min
201415940%956%7 min
20156433%2100%7 min
201613838%580%29 min
201713654%1392%29 min
20189633%875%28 min
20193233%250%8 min
20208625%3093%13 min
202111555%1136%19 min
202212650%540%19 min
202313931%989%13 min
202413838%475%9 min
20259367%633%18 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200920100%10%
201050100%10%
201150100%10%
201230100%0
20134250%1100%122 min
20152150%1100%20 min
2016110%0
2017010%
2019220%2100%169 min
20204250%0
2021110%2100%23 min
202210100%0
2023110%1100%3 min
20242150%0
20252150%250%38 min

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
Sep 21, 9:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHX5 hr
Sep 19, 2:01 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHX84 min
Sep 6, 3:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHX3 hr
Aug 22, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHX55 min
Aug 22, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHX53 min
Aug 8, 12:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHX3 hr
Aug 6, 3:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHX62 min
Jul 19, 4:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHX3 hr
Jul 17, 5:34 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHX2 hr
Jun 27, 7:57 PM CDTTornado WarningOHX48 min
Jun 27, 7:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHX51 min
May 22, 4:24 PM CDTTornado WarningOHX51 min

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