Alert archive / Tennessee

Weather alerts in Hawkins County, Tennessee

2,477 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Hawkins County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,477
Warnings
813
Watches
354
Advisories
671
Busiest year
2011172 alerts
Average year
65over 38 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, 100% of tornado reports in Hawkins County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 10 minutes before, and 68% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20093233%0
20119367%0
201210280%0
20142150%1100%10 min
201920100%0
202320100%0
20242150%0
2025110%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008141214%978%18 min
200917166%5100%33 min
201010820%425%14 min
2011484017%1292%27 min
2012332427%1385%31 min
2013181233%757%21 min
2014221627%850%9 min
2015161225%250%15 min
2016231726%1258%13 min
20179811%1100%13 min
2018211910%989%32 min
201911110%1070%14 min
202024228%989%24 min
2021131115%683%25 min
2022262119%1894%16 min
2023292610%888%29 min
2024231726%475%18 min
2025181611%683%13 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2009220%0
2011330%0
2013110%0
2015110%2100%109 min
20194325%40%
2021330%650%201 min
20225340%3100%65 min
202320100%0
20245340%1100%62 min
2025550%367%160 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 5, 11:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX74 min
Aug 17, 5:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX41 min
Aug 17, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX62 min
Aug 12, 11:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX41 min
Aug 12, 10:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX40 min
Aug 11, 8:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX61 min
Aug 11, 8:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX67 min
Aug 11, 7:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMRX53 min
Aug 11, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX35 min
Aug 11, 5:04 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRX3 hr
Jul 28, 6:06 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRX114 min
Jul 28, 5:34 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRX116 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.