Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, August 1997
49 severe thunderstorm warnings in August 1997. 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 severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 49
- Busiest day
- August 4, 19979 severe thunderstorm warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Johnson, Sullivan | 51 min |
| Aug 4, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Unicoi | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam, White | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner, Wilson | 40 min |
| Aug 4, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hancock | 34 min |
| Aug 4, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hawkins | 40 min |
| Aug 4, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Claiborne | 40 min |
| Aug 4, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Union | 37 min |
| Aug 4, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin | 54 min |
| Aug 4, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamblen, Jefferson | 68 min |
| Aug 4, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Knox, Sevier | 64 min |
| Aug 4, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount | 66 min |
| Aug 4, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sevier | 34 min |
| Aug 14, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis, Perry | 42 min |
| Aug 17, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell, Union | 39 min |
| Aug 17, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Knox | 39 min |
| Aug 17, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Loudon, Roane | 40 min |
| Aug 17, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger, Union | 42 min |
| Aug 19, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Gibson | 35 min |
| Aug 19, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 50 min |
| Aug 19, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner | 47 min |
| Aug 19, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Trousdale, Wilson | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Smith | 49 min |
| Aug 19, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lauderdale, Tipton | 35 min |
| Aug 19, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 44 min |
| Aug 19, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Decatur | 38 min |
| Aug 19, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Haywood | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cumberland | 59 min |
| Aug 19, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam, White | 27 min |
| Aug 19, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 25 min |
| Aug 19, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cumberland | 60 min |
| Aug 19, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 27 min |
| Aug 19, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan, Roane | 56 min |
| Aug 19, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 45 min |
| Aug 19, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Sevier | 65 min |
| Aug 20, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Overton | 41 min |
| Aug 28, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton | 30 min |
| Aug 28, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton | 25 min |
| Aug 28, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, Polk | 39 min |
| Aug 29, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Maury | 26 min |
| Aug 29, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston | 31 min |
| Aug 29, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 27 min |
| Aug 29, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 31 min |
| Aug 29, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 44 min |
| Aug 29, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 24 min |
| Aug 29, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 51 min |
| Aug 29, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Humphreys, Perry | 50 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Putnam County3
- Wilson County3
- Union County3
- Sevier County3
- Lawrence County3
- Bradley County3
- White County2
- Sumner County2
- Knox County2
- Blount County2
- Perry County2
- Roane County2
- Stewart County2
- Cumberland County2
- Wayne County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hickman County2
- Benton County2
- Humphreys County2
- Johnson County1
- Sullivan County1
- Unicoi County1
- DeKalb County1
- Hancock County1
- Hawkins County1
- Claiborne County1
- Coffee County1
- Franklin County1
- Hamblen County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lewis County1
- Campbell County1
- Loudon County1
- Grainger County1
- Gibson County1
- Trousdale County1
- Smith County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Tipton County1
- Decatur County1
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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.