Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings / 1997
Tornado Warnings in Tennessee, March 1997
50 tornado warnings in March 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.
Tornado Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in March 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 50
- Busiest day
- March 29, 199724 tornado 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 1:04 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 26 min |
| Mar 1, 1:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis | 47 min |
| Mar 1, 1:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Maury | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 2:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Williamson | 47 min |
| Mar 1, 2:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Williamson | 52 min |
| Mar 1, 2:55 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson | 65 min |
| Mar 1, 2:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 62 min |
| Mar 1, 2:59 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin | 21 min |
| Mar 1, 3:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 56 min |
| Mar 1, 3:55 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Decatur | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 3:59 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 61 min |
| Mar 1, 4:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon, Sumner | 36 min |
| Mar 1, 7:10 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Perry | 50 min |
| Mar 1, 7:17 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Decatur | 43 min |
| Mar 1, 7:21 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman | 54 min |
| Mar 1, 8:05 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Williamson | 40 min |
| Mar 1, 4:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crockett, Gibson | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 7:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 7:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Gibson | 34 min |
| Mar 1, 8:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henry, Weakley | 51 min |
| Mar 1, 8:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Stewart | 52 min |
| Mar 1, 11:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Decatur | 41 min |
| Mar 3, 5:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Blount, Monroe | 29 min |
| Mar 5, 5:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner, Wilson | 59 min |
| Mar 5, 9:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Campbell | 37 min |
| Mar 5, 10:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell, Morgan, Scott | 60 min |
| Mar 28, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 6:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner | 44 min |
| Mar 28, 6:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Wilson | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 6:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Humphreys | 50 min |
| Mar 28, 7:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Decatur | 44 min |
| Mar 28, 7:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | McNairy | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 7:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 7:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson | 47 min |
| Mar 28, 7:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 51 min |
| Mar 28, 8:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 9:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Smith | 54 min |
| Mar 28, 9:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Jackson | 48 min |
| Mar 28, 9:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Wilson | 49 min |
| Mar 28, 9:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 9:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Overton | 50 min |
| Mar 28, 10:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Putnam | 50 min |
| Mar 28, 10:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin, Lincoln | 50 min |
| Mar 28, 10:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 10:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sequatchie | 65 min |
| Mar 28, 11:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Knox | 34 min |
| Mar 28, 11:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bledsoe | 44 min |
| Mar 29, 12:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bradley | 27 min |
| Mar 29, 1:01 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Polk | 29 min |
| Mar 29, 1:17 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bradley | 13 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Davidson County4
- Decatur County4
- Wayne County3
- Lawrence County3
- Williamson County3
- Hardin County3
- Sumner County3
- Wilson County3
- Benton County2
- Humphreys County2
- Gibson County2
- Campbell County2
- Bradley County2
- Lewis County1
- Maury County1
- Macon County1
- Perry County1
- Hickman County1
- Crockett County1
- Dyer County1
- Henry County1
- Weakley County1
- Stewart County1
- Blount County1
- Monroe County1
- Anderson County1
- Morgan County1
- Scott County1
- Robertson County1
- Dickson County1
- McNairy County1
- Cheatham County1
- Smith County1
- Jackson County1
- DeKalb County1
- Giles County1
- Overton County1
- Putnam County1
- Coffee County1
- Franklin County1
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.