Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, May 2001
8 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2001. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 20, 20012 severe thunderstorm watches
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson and 8 more | 5 hr |
| May 20, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee and 36 more | 4 hr |
| May 20, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dyer, Fayette, Haywood, Lake, Lauderdale, Shelby and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Blount, Bradley, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke and 20 more | 5 hr |
| May 22, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carter, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington | 6 hr |
| May 24, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carter, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hawkins and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fayette, Shelby | 5 hr |
| May 31, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bedford, Bledsoe, Campbell, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay and 39 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fayette County3
- Shelby County3
- Carter County3
- Johnson County3
- Sullivan County3
- Unicoi County3
- Washington County3
- Dyer County2
- Haywood County2
- Lauderdale County2
- Tipton County2
- Bedford County2
- Cannon County2
- Cheatham County2
- Clay County2
- Coffee County2
- Davidson County2
- DeKalb County2
- Franklin County2
- Giles County2
- Grundy County2
- Hickman County2
- Jackson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lewis County2
- Lincoln County2
- Macon County2
- Marshall County2
- Maury County2
- Moore County2
- Overton County2
- Pickett County2
- Putnam County2
- Robertson County2
- Rutherford County2
- Smith County2
- Sumner County2
- Trousdale County2
- Van Buren County2
- Warren County2
52 more counties
- Wayne County2
- White County2
- Williamson County2
- Wilson County2
- Cocke County2
- Grainger County2
- Greene County2
- Hamblen County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hawkins County2
- Jefferson County2
- Meigs County2
- Roane County2
- Sevier County2
- Carroll County1
- Chester County1
- Crockett County1
- Gibson County1
- Hardeman County1
- Henderson County1
- McNairy County1
- Madison County1
- Benton County1
- Decatur County1
- Dickson County1
- Hardin County1
- Houston County1
- Humphreys County1
- Montgomery County1
- Perry County1
- Stewart County1
- Lake County1
- Anderson County1
- Blount County1
- Bradley County1
- Claiborne County1
- Hancock County1
- Knox County1
- Loudon County1
- McMinn County1
- Monroe County1
- Polk County1
- Union County1
- Bledsoe County1
- Campbell County1
- Cumberland County1
- Fentress County1
- Marion County1
- Morgan County1
- Rhea County1
- Scott County1
- Sequatchie 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.