Alert archive / Tennessee

Weather alerts in Montgomery County, Tennessee

3,469 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Montgomery County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,469
Warnings
1,050
Watches
553
Advisories
780
Busiest year
2011209 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, 70% of tornado reports in Montgomery County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 12 minutes before, and 80% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20084175%4100%9 min
200912192%1100%10 min
201030100%0
201112283%10%
201220100%0
201370100%0
20145180%1100%26 min
201510100%0
201630100%0
20183233%3100%21 min
201910100%10%
20216183%0
20235340%560%8 min
20245180%0
2025220%450%6 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
200811282%1020%5 min
2009341556%850%21 min
2010311068%10100%19 min
2011342041%10100%19 min
2012402148%3462%12 min
2013161038%771%18 min
201417759%1527%16 min
201511645%560%5 min
2016281932%2767%27 min
2017221341%989%16 min
201821862%1331%6 min
201911736%1856%24 min
2020201715%1090%16 min
2021201525%1283%23 min
202211645%1656%22 min
2023231343%771%16 min
2024241250%1377%24 min
2025321941%580%33 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20092150%250%75 min
20102150%1100%0 min
20119456%0
20136350%3100%206 min
201510100%0
2016440%2100%100 min
2017440%5100%88 min
201810100%0
20193233%0
2021550%3100%61 min
2023220%10%
20249633%1100%7 min
202518761%5100%346 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
Aug 20, 6:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHX3 hr
Aug 20, 2:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHX60 min
Aug 20, 1:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatOHX67 min
Aug 14, 10:49 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningOHX56 hr
Aug 8, 3:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHX3 hr
Jul 26, 10:32 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningOHX45 hr
Jul 26, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHX50 min
Jul 26, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHX63 min
Jul 21, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHX45 min
Jul 21, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHX29 min
Jul 21, 7:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHX3 hr
Jul 21, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHX39 min

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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.