High Wind Warnings in Tennessee
164 high wind warnings 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 high wind warnings reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Warnings
- 164
- Busiest year
- 200816 high wind warnings
- Average year
- 7over 22 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.
- Blount County139
- Cocke County139
- Sevier County139
- Greene County126
- Monroe County112
- Unicoi County101
- Carter County99
- Johnson County95
- Washington County32
- Polk County25
- McMinn County16
- Sullivan County13
- Lake County8
- Dyer County7
- Franklin County7
- Haywood County7
- Lincoln County7
- Tipton County7
- Carroll County6
- Crockett County6
- Gibson County6
- Henry County6
- Lauderdale County6
- Madison County6
- Moore County6
- Obion County6
- Shelby County6
- Weakley County6
- Cheatham County5
- Davidson County5
- Robertson County5
- Sumner County5
- Williamson County5
- Campbell County5
- Morgan County5
- Scott County5
- Chester County5
- Decatur County5
- Fayette County5
- Hardeman County5
55 more counties
- Hardin County5
- Henderson County5
- McNairy County5
- Cannon County4
- Cumberland County4
- Fentress County4
- Grundy County4
- Overton County4
- Pickett County4
- Putnam County4
- Rutherford County4
- Van Buren County4
- Warren County4
- White County4
- Wilson County4
- Claiborne County4
- Benton County4
- Dickson County4
- Montgomery County4
- Stewart County4
- Bledsoe County4
- Marion County4
- Sequatchie County4
- Bedford County3
- Clay County3
- Coffee County3
- DeKalb County3
- Giles County3
- Jackson County3
- Macon County3
- Marshall County3
- Maury County3
- Smith County3
- Trousdale County3
- Anderson County3
- Grainger County3
- Hamblen County3
- Hancock County3
- Hawkins County3
- Jefferson County3
- Knox County3
- Loudon County3
- Roane County3
- Union County3
- Hickman County3
- Houston County3
- Humphreys County3
- Lawrence County2
- Lewis County2
- Perry County2
- Wayne County2
- Bradley County2
- Hamilton County2
- Meigs County2
- Rhea County2
The latest high wind warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 12:44 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | MRX | Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Monroe and 2 more | 42 hr |
| Jan 23, 8:54 AM CST | High Wind Warning | MRX | Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Monroe, Sevier and 1 more | 57 hr |
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.