Alert archive / Tennessee

Weather alerts in Decatur County, Tennessee

3,567 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Decatur County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,567
Warnings
960
Watches
640
Advisories
1,044
Busiest year
2011249 alerts
Average year
99over 36 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, 90% of tornado reports in Decatur County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 25 minutes before, and 78% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20083167%10%
20094175%0
20107357%4100%21 min
201110190%2100%28 min
201210100%0
201320100%0
201450100%0
201510100%0
201620100%0
20177186%1100%40 min
201910100%0
20203233%0
20217357%2100%23 min
20234175%0
202410100%0
20257186%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200811282%333%36 min
2009211148%683%20 min
201023961%4100%15 min
2011391951%1090%35165 min
201222959%3100%22 min
20136183%1100%5 min
201417947%771%16 min
201512558%3100%26 min
20164250%0
201714657%1233%19 min
201811645%1100%20 min
20199544%5100%23 min
2020161038%9100%15 min
2021161131%475%30 min
20226433%1100%47 min
202315940%0
202414137%5100%24 min
2025261542%1100%31 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200818856%786%63 min
2009281546%1995%91 min
2010341071%6100%119 min
201116475%333%11 min
20127271%1100%20 min
201316381%838%27 min
201416381%1100%125 min
20158188%0
20165260%1100%127 min
20173167%0
201830100%0
201910100%0
202020100%0
20213233%2100%16 min
202210100%0
2023110%2100%59 min
20259456%1100%129 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
Aug 12, 4:06 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG5 days
Jul 26, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG48 min
Jul 25, 11:17 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG3 days
Jul 21, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG46 min
Jul 5, 2:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG38 min
Jul 2, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG48 min
Jul 1, 12:48 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG31 hr
May 31, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG49 min
Apr 28, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG56 min
Apr 28, 4:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG38 min
Apr 28, 1:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG36 min
Apr 28, 12:13 AM CDTTornado WarningMEG20 min

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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.