Red Flag Warnings in Tennessee
53 red flag 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 red flag warnings reaches back to 2005.
Red Flag Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 53
- Busiest year
- 202210 red flag warnings
- Average year
- 4over 13 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.
- Obion County13
- Shelby County13
- Cheatham County12
- Dickson County12
- Houston County12
- Montgomery County12
- Robertson County12
- Stewart County12
- Dyer County12
- Lake County12
- Lauderdale County12
- Blount County12
- Sevier County12
- Davidson County11
- Humphreys County11
- Sumner County11
- Fayette County11
- Gibson County11
- Tipton County11
- Weakley County11
- Cocke County11
- Greene County11
- Monroe County11
- Unicoi County11
- Macon County10
- Rutherford County10
- Smith County10
- Trousdale County10
- Williamson County10
- Wilson County10
- Crockett County10
- Carter County10
- Johnson County10
- Polk County10
- Bedford County9
- Cannon County9
- Clay County9
- Cumberland County9
- DeKalb County9
- Fentress County9
55 more counties
- Giles County9
- Hardin County9
- Hickman County9
- Jackson County9
- Lawrence County9
- Lewis County9
- Lincoln County9
- Marshall County9
- Maury County9
- Overton County9
- Perry County9
- Pickett County9
- Putnam County9
- Warren County9
- Wayne County9
- White County9
- Carroll County9
- Haywood County9
- Henry County9
- Chester County8
- Hardeman County8
- Madison County8
- Benton County7
- Henderson County7
- McNairy County7
- Decatur County6
- Anderson County4
- Campbell County4
- Knox County4
- Loudon County4
- Morgan County4
- Roane County4
- Scott County4
- Union County4
- Bledsoe County3
- Bradley County3
- Claiborne County3
- Grainger County3
- Hamblen County3
- Hamilton County3
- Hancock County3
- Hawkins County3
- Jefferson County3
- McMinn County3
- Marion County3
- Meigs County3
- Rhea County3
- Sequatchie County3
- Sullivan County3
- Washington County3
- Coffee County2
- Franklin County2
- Grundy County2
- Moore County2
- Van Buren County2
The latest red flag warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 8:53 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MRX | Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Monroe and 3 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:01 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MRX | Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Monroe and 3 more | 30 hr |
| Mar 22, 9:55 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MRX | Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Monroe and 3 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 18, 1:46 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MRX | Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Monroe and 3 more | 32 hr |
| Mar 14, 1:58 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MRX | Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Monroe and 3 more | 32 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:47 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | MRX | Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Monroe and 2 more | 34 hr |
| Feb 28, 7:50 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | MRX | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 27 more | 23 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.