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Tornado Warnings in Tennessee, 1988

21 tornado warnings in 1988. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1988. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
21
Busiest month
December8 tornado warnings
Busiest day
January 19, 19885 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 19, 10:27 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGShelby33 min
Jan 19, 10:52 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGFayette38 min
Jan 19, 11:30 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGHaywood30 min
Jan 19, 12:13 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGFayette32 min
Jan 19, 1:11 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGCarroll, Henry49 min
May 3, 6:05 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGGibson, Weakley25 min
May 22, 4:42 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGShelby48 min
May 22, 5:29 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGShelby, Tipton61 min
Nov 4, 3:47 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGHenderson58 min
Nov 4, 4:24 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXWayne36 min
Nov 4, 6:09 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXGiles, Marshall36 min
Nov 19, 8:07 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGFayette, Shelby53 min
Nov 26, 5:23 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXGiles, Lincoln52 min
Dec 24, 3:14 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGFayette31 min
Dec 24, 7:08 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXDavidson, Williamson37 min
Dec 24, 7:19 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXWilson41 min
Dec 24, 7:45 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXDavidson, Wilson30 min
Dec 24, 7:45 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXWilliamson30 min
Dec 27, 5:23 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGShelby67 min
Dec 27, 5:52 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGTipton68 min
Dec 27, 6:36 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGFayette, Shelby69 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 19, 19885tornado warnings
  2. December 24, 19885tornado warnings
  3. May 22, 19882tornado warnings
  4. November 4, 19882tornado warnings
  5. December 27, 19882tornado warnings
  6. May 3, 19881tornado warnings
  7. November 5, 19881tornado warnings
  8. November 20, 19881tornado warnings
  9. November 26, 19881tornado warnings
  10. December 28, 19881tornado warnings

Nearby

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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.