Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings / 1998
Tornado Warnings in Tennessee, April 1998
180 tornado warnings in April 1998. 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 April 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 180
- Busiest day
- April 16, 199890 tornado warnings
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 12:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Weakley | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 12:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henry | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 1:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 1:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 1:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Stewart | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 1:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Houston | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 1:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Franklin | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 1:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Humphreys | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 1:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 2:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy, Marion | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 2:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 2:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 2:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 2:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 3:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Meigs, Rhea | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Smith, Trousdale, Wilson | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 3:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 3:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 3:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 4:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Overton, Pickett | 65 min |
| Apr 3, 4:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 4:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 4:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Blount, Knox | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 4:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Fentress | 53 min |
| Apr 3, 4:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | White | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 4:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Sevier | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 5:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Jefferson | 37 min |
| Apr 3, 5:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Cumberland | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 5:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 5:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Meigs, Rhea | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 5:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | White | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 5:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Cocke | 29 min |
| Apr 8, 12:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 50 min |
| Apr 8, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Fentress, Scott | 60 min |
| Apr 8, 2:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bledsoe, Van Buren | 43 min |
| Apr 8, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 50 min |
| Apr 8, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Shelby | 36 min |
| Apr 8, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 34 min |
| Apr 8, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles | 35 min |
| Apr 8, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lincoln | 60 min |
| Apr 8, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford | 49 min |
| Apr 8, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Moore | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Franklin | 50 min |
| Apr 8, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy, Warren | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sequatchie, Van Buren | 39 min |
| Apr 8, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Meigs, Rhea | 64 min |
| Apr 8, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Polk | 61 min |
| Apr 8, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Anderson | 30 min |
| Apr 8, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | McMinn, Monroe | 60 min |
| Apr 8, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Blount, Loudon | 45 min |
| Apr 13, 11:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lake, Obion | 59 min |
| Apr 16, 3:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 4:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crockett | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 5:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Carroll | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 5:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 5:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 6:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 6:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 6:19 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson | 36 min |
| Apr 16, 6:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 6:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner, Trousdale | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 7:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Williamson | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 7:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Smith, Wilson | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 8:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 9:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Cumberland, Fentress, Morgan | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 9:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Anderson, Scott | 65 min |
| Apr 16, 9:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 10:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 10:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 11:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner | 40 min |
| Apr 16, 11:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 11:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner | 17 min |
| Apr 16, 11:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 11:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Williamson | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 1:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wilson | 44 min |
| Apr 16, 1:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 1:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 19 min |
| Apr 16, 1:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 2:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henderson | 21 min |
| Apr 16, 2:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Decatur | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 2:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Perry | 51 min |
| Apr 16, 2:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardeman, McNairy | 51 min |
| Apr 16, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 2:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 2:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 3:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson | 61 min |
| Apr 16, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Perry | 51 min |
| Apr 16, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner, Wilson | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman | 65 min |
| Apr 16, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Williamson | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Trousdale | 62 min |
| Apr 16, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Decatur | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Smith | 65 min |
| Apr 16, 4:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Meigs, Rhea | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 4:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 62 min |
| Apr 16, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chester | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson | 65 min |
| Apr 16, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Polk | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 4:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Robertson | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Monroe | 45 min |
| Apr 16, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Trousdale | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wilson | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner | 65 min |
| Apr 16, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Pickett | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Cumberland | 62 min |
| Apr 16, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Maury | 62 min |
| Apr 16, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon, Smith | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wilson | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Jackson | 64 min |
| Apr 16, 5:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay | 62 min |
| Apr 16, 5:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Morgan | 66 min |
| Apr 16, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Claiborne | 67 min |
| Apr 16, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Hancock | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Campbell | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Union | 37 min |
| Apr 16, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Marshall | 61 min |
| Apr 16, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Anderson | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Pickett | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 6:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Grainger | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Scott | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 51 min |
| Apr 16, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Anderson, Union | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Grainger | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Claiborne | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Hancock | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 51 min |
| Apr 16, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Maury | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Moore | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Warren | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Marshall | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sequatchie | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Franklin | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Hamblen, Jefferson | 64 min |
| Apr 16, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Moore | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bledsoe | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Marion | 66 min |
| Apr 16, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 8:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Meigs, Rhea | 62 min |
| Apr 16, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy | 40 min |
| Apr 16, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Franklin | 21 min |
| Apr 16, 9:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Marion, Sequatchie | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 10:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bradley | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 10:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | McMinn | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 10:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Blount, Loudon | 46 min |
| Apr 18, 9:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Monroe | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 11:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Blount | 29 min |
| Apr 27, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer | 35 min |
| Apr 27, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Carroll | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton | 44 min |
| Apr 27, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Decatur | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Perry | 62 min |
| Apr 27, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer | 36 min |
| Apr 27, 8:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lewis | 63 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Sumner County9
- Davidson County9
- Wilson County7
- Robertson County6
- Bedford County6
- Franklin County5
- Grundy County5
- Cheatham County5
- Meigs County5
- Rhea County5
- Macon County5
- Giles County5
- Rutherford County5
- Williamson County5
- Humphreys County4
- Lincoln County4
- Dickson County4
- Coffee County4
- Smith County4
- Trousdale County4
- Clay County4
- Jackson County4
- Blount County4
- Van Buren County4
- Lawrence County4
- Anderson County4
- Hickman County4
- Benton County3
- Marion County3
- Marshall County3
- Hamilton County3
- Pickett County3
- DeKalb County3
- Fentress County3
- Cumberland County3
- Warren County3
- Scott County3
- Wayne County3
- Moore County3
- Sequatchie County3
40 more counties
- Monroe County3
- Dyer County3
- Decatur County3
- Perry County3
- Lewis County3
- Montgomery County2
- Bradley County2
- White County2
- Jefferson County2
- Bledsoe County2
- Polk County2
- McMinn County2
- Loudon County2
- Carroll County2
- Morgan County2
- Hardin County2
- Maury County2
- Claiborne County2
- Hancock County2
- Union County2
- Grainger County2
- Weakley County1
- Henry County1
- Stewart County1
- Houston County1
- Overton County1
- Knox County1
- Sevier County1
- Cocke County1
- Shelby County1
- Lake County1
- Obion County1
- Crockett County1
- Cannon County1
- Henderson County1
- Hardeman County1
- McNairy County1
- Chester County1
- Campbell County1
- Hamblen 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.