Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, May 2017
6 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 27, 20174 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, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Coffee, Davidson, DeKalb and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 4:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 1:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Clay, Davidson, Dickson and 21 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Clay and 40 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 27 more | 9 hr |
| May 27, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Franklin, Giles, Lawrence, Lincoln, Moore, Wayne | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cheatham County3
- Davidson County3
- Giles County3
- Macon County3
- Robertson County3
- Smith County3
- Sumner County3
- Trousdale County3
- Wilson County3
- Benton County3
- Carroll County3
- Dyer County3
- Gibson County3
- Henry County3
- Lake County3
- Obion County3
- Weakley County3
- Bedford County2
- Cannon County2
- Coffee County2
- DeKalb County2
- Marshall County2
- Maury County2
- Rutherford County2
- Williamson County2
- Clay County2
- Dickson County2
- Fentress County2
- Houston County2
- Humphreys County2
- Jackson County2
- Montgomery County2
- Overton County2
- Pickett County2
- Putnam County2
- Stewart County2
- Lawrence County2
- Wayne County2
- Chester County1
- Crockett County1
55 more counties
- Decatur County1
- Fayette County1
- Hardeman County1
- Hardin County1
- Haywood County1
- Henderson County1
- Lauderdale County1
- McNairy County1
- Madison County1
- Shelby County1
- Tipton County1
- Cumberland County1
- Grundy County1
- Hickman County1
- Lewis County1
- Perry County1
- Van Buren County1
- Warren County1
- White County1
- Anderson County1
- Bledsoe County1
- Blount County1
- Bradley County1
- Campbell County1
- Carter County1
- Claiborne County1
- Cocke County1
- Grainger County1
- Greene County1
- Hamblen County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hawkins County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Knox County1
- Loudon County1
- McMinn County1
- Marion County1
- Meigs County1
- Monroe County1
- Morgan County1
- Polk County1
- Rhea County1
- Roane County1
- Scott County1
- Sequatchie County1
- Sevier County1
- Sullivan County1
- Unicoi County1
- Union County1
- Washington County1
- Franklin County1
- Lincoln County1
- Moore 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.