Alert archive / Tennessee

Weather alerts in Henderson County, Tennessee

3,421 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Henderson County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,421
Warnings
988
Watches
648
Advisories
835
Busiest year
2011239 alerts
Average year
92over 37 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, 83% of tornado reports in Henderson County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 17 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
20087357%1100%29 min
20095180%475%9 min
20108363%2100%17 min
201110190%0
201210100%10%
201320100%0
201440100%0
201630100%0
20176267%1100%46 min
201810100%0
201930100%0
20204250%1100%26 min
20217443%2100%4 min
20236183%0
202430100%0
202511282%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
200814564%10%
2009191521%683%20 min
2010321747%1080%26 min
2011432249%1392%34548 min
2012311261%250%34 min
201315660%250%32 min
2014201145%20%
201518856%667%35 min
201611645%580%28 min
2017221436%1354%19 min
201813746%333%30 min
20199544%333%5 min
2020191332%1182%25 min
2021231343%1471%23 min
202211555%250%2 min
2023221723%8100%17 min
2024151220%6100%12 min
2025372630%9100%24 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200817853%250%98 min
200917947%1100%40 min
2010351654%7100%279 min
201115473%1100%166 min
20127186%0
201316288%90%
201416756%1100%5 min
201512375%10%
20167357%1100%56 min
20177529%0
201830100%0
20192150%0
20202150%0
20213233%0
202210100%0
2023110%0
202511555%10%

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 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 3, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG44 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, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG49 min
Apr 28, 4:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG38 min
Apr 28, 1:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG36 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.