Flash Flood Watches in Tennessee
294 flash flood 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 flash flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flash Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 294
- Busiest year
- 200936 flash flood watches
- Average year
- 18over 16 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 County85
- Fayette County83
- Hardeman County83
- Chester County81
- Lauderdale County81
- Madison County81
- Henderson County80
- McNairy County80
- Carroll County79
- Decatur County79
- Dyer County79
- Gibson County79
- Hardin County79
- Tipton County79
- Crockett County78
- Haywood County78
- Lake County78
- Obion County78
- Henry County77
- Weakley County77
- Lincoln County66
- Moore County66
- Franklin County64
- Benton County60
- Dickson County58
- Wayne County58
- Davidson County57
- Houston County57
- Humphreys County57
- Wilson County57
- Cheatham County56
- Lawrence County56
- Macon County56
- Robertson County56
- Smith County56
- Trousdale County56
- Giles County56
- Clay County55
- Jackson County55
- Montgomery County55
55 more counties
- Overton County55
- Pickett County55
- Putnam County55
- Sumner County55
- Williamson County55
- Hickman County54
- Lewis County54
- Perry County54
- Stewart County54
- Maury County54
- Rutherford County53
- Marshall County53
- Fentress County52
- DeKalb County51
- Bedford County51
- Cannon County49
- Van Buren County48
- Warren County48
- Cumberland County47
- Coffee County47
- White County46
- Grundy County46
- Blount County34
- Sevier County34
- Polk County34
- Monroe County32
- Bradley County32
- Knox County31
- Hamilton County31
- Marion County31
- Anderson County30
- Campbell County30
- Cocke County30
- Loudon County30
- McMinn County30
- Morgan County30
- Scott County30
- Jefferson County29
- Claiborne County28
- Grainger County28
- Hamblen County28
- Meigs County28
- Rhea County28
- Roane County28
- Union County28
- Greene County28
- Sequatchie County28
- Unicoi County28
- Bledsoe County27
- Carter County27
- Hancock County26
- Johnson County26
- Washington County24
- Hawkins County23
- Sullivan County23
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. Rebuilt daily.