Excessive Heat Watches in Tennessee
27 excessive heat watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of excessive heat watches reaches back to 2005.
Excessive Heat Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Excessive Heat Watches
- 27
- Busiest year
- 201012 excessive heat watches
- Average year
- 3over 8 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 county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Shelby County20
- Tipton County20
- Fayette County19
- Lauderdale County18
- Haywood County17
- Crockett County16
- Dyer County16
- Chester County15
- Gibson County15
- Hardeman County15
- Lake County15
- McNairy County15
- Obion County15
- Madison County14
- Hardin County13
- Henry County13
- Weakley County13
- Carroll County12
- Decatur County12
- Henderson County12
- Lincoln County3
- Moore County3
- Benton County3
- Franklin County2
- Bedford County1
- Cheatham County1
- Davidson County1
- Dickson County1
- Giles County1
- Hickman County1
- Houston County1
- Humphreys County1
- Lawrence County1
- Lewis County1
- Macon County1
- Marshall County1
- Maury County1
- Montgomery County1
- Perry County1
- Robertson County1
Nearby
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.