Alert archive / Tennessee

Weather alerts in McNairy County, Tennessee

3,442 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

McNairy County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,442
Warnings
1,003
Watches
671
Advisories
823
Busiest year
2011270 alerts
Average year
91over 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, 92% of tornado reports in McNairy County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 26 minutes before, and 76% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20086350%1100%18 min
200930100%0
201012467%2100%20 min
201120385%0
201250100%0
201320100%0
201450100%10%
20152150%2100%32 min
20177271%0
201810100%0
20195260%0
202020100%0
202130100%0
20239456%4100%20 min
202410100%0
20259367%2100%42 min
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200813562%520%4 min
2009261446%6100%24 min
2010271641%2100%11 min
2011532749%683%26 min
2012482646%1580%15 min
201310640%475%41 min
2014271544%6100%22 min
201520575%425%8 min
201610370%250%5 min
201710550%367%34 min
2018211148%560%22 min
201913746%560%30 min
202013931%5100%20 min
202114750%683%21 min
202212833%475%36 min
2023281932%933%19 min
202410640%0
2025372143%475%18 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200814564%1100%13 min
200917853%0
2010291162%1100%12 min
201117665%0
20128363%2100%85 min
20135180%0
201412558%250%79 min
201510370%10%
20167186%0
20172150%0
201840100%0
20193167%0
20204325%2100%113 min
2021330%250%72 min
2023110%0
20257443%0

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 22, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG46 min
Aug 22, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG32 min
Aug 12, 4:06 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG5 days
Aug 9, 2:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG45 min
Jul 25, 11:17 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG3 days
Jul 4, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG47 min
Jul 2, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG48 min
Jul 1, 12:48 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG31 hr
Jun 13, 7:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG43 min
May 6, 1:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG40 min
Apr 28, 11:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG27 min
Apr 28, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG56 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.