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Tornado Warnings in Tennessee, 1996

33 tornado warnings in 1996. 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 1996. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
33
Busiest month
March8 tornado warnings
Busiest day
April 20, 19966 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 17, 8:49 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGFayette26 min
Jan 18, 8:49 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGFayette26 min
Jan 18, 9:17 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGFayette, Haywood43 min
Mar 6, 3:24 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGHardin36 min
Mar 6, 4:08 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXLawrence52 min
Mar 6, 4:45 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXGiles45 min
Mar 16, 1:22 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXMontgomery53 min
Mar 16, 3:34 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXJackson26 min
Mar 16, 3:53 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXOverton37 min
Mar 16, 4:10 PM CSTTornado WarningMRXFentress65 min
Mar 16, 4:44 PM CSTTornado WarningMRXScott61 min
Apr 20, 7:46 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXBedford, Coffee29 min
Apr 20, 7:46 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXCannon29 min
Apr 20, 7:59 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXWarren31 min
Apr 20, 8:06 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXFranklin39 min
Apr 20, 8:21 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXCoffee, Grundy39 min
Apr 20, 8:33 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXBledsoe, Van Buren27 min
May 27, 2:54 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDavidson, Williamson51 min
May 27, 3:44 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXRutherford46 min
May 27, 6:22 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXMeigs53 min
May 27, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXBradley45 min
May 28, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGHardin30 min
May 28, 7:36 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXWayne54 min
May 28, 8:05 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXClay, Pickett40 min
May 28, 9:04 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXFentress56 min
Sep 16, 6:44 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXMacon, Sumner31 min
Sep 16, 8:02 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGLauderdale, Tipton33 min
Sep 16, 6:44 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXMonroe31 min
Sep 27, 3:45 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXRobertson15 min
Sep 27, 4:33 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXRobertson, Sumner27 min
Nov 7, 3:57 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXLincoln33 min
Nov 7, 4:04 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXFranklin41 min
Nov 7, 4:15 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXCoffee, Grundy45 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. April 20, 19966tornado warnings
  2. March 16, 19965tornado warnings
  3. May 27, 19964tornado warnings
  4. May 29, 19964tornado warnings
  5. January 18, 19963tornado warnings
  6. March 6, 19963tornado warnings
  7. September 16, 19963tornado warnings
  8. November 7, 19963tornado warnings
  9. September 27, 19962tornado 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. Rebuilt daily.