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Tornado Warnings in Tennessee, 1999

79 tornado warnings in 1999. 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 1999. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
79
Busiest month
January54 tornado warnings
Busiest day
January 22, 199934 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, 6:08 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGMadison47 min
Jan 17, 6:14 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGCrockett, Gibson36 min
Jan 17, 6:33 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGFayette37 min
Jan 17, 6:35 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGHenderson50 min
Jan 17, 6:38 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGCarroll47 min
Jan 17, 6:43 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGHardeman47 min
Jan 17, 6:47 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXDecatur63 min
Jan 17, 7:01 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGChester, McNairy49 min
Jan 17, 7:02 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXBenton63 min
Jan 17, 7:10 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXHumphreys, Perry65 min
Jan 17, 7:28 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXMontgomery62 min
Jan 17, 7:31 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXHickman, Lewis64 min
Jan 17, 7:45 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXRobertson45 min
Jan 17, 7:48 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGHardin47 min
Jan 17, 8:02 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXDavidson48 min
Jan 17, 8:05 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXMaury65 min
Jan 17, 8:15 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXSumner, Wilson50 min
Jan 17, 8:30 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXWayne50 min
Jan 17, 8:52 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXLawrence48 min
Jan 17, 9:35 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXGiles, Lincoln, Marshall50 min
Jan 21, 8:20 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGDyer, Obion45 min
Jan 21, 10:25 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGDyer, Lake, Obion45 min
Jan 21, 11:05 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGShelby45 min
Jan 21, 11:14 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGLake51 min
Jan 21, 11:21 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGFayette49 min
Jan 22, 12:02 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGHardeman33 min
Jan 22, 12:13 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGFayette17 min
Jan 22, 1:30 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGFayette45 min
Jan 22, 2:16 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGMadison49 min
Jan 22, 2:27 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGHenderson48 min
Jan 22, 2:32 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGFayette, Hardeman48 min
Jan 22, 2:41 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGCarroll49 min
Jan 22, 2:47 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXBenton48 min
Jan 22, 3:00 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGChester50 min
Jan 22, 3:26 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGHenderson49 min
Jan 22, 3:40 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXBenton, Houston, Humphreys35 min
Jan 22, 3:48 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXDecatur47 min
Jan 22, 3:48 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXStewart47 min
Jan 22, 3:54 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXDickson, Montgomery61 min
Jan 22, 4:18 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGMadison47 min
Jan 22, 4:38 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXHumphreys62 min
Jan 22, 4:48 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXHouston52 min
Jan 22, 5:00 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXDickson65 min
Jan 22, 5:06 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXMontgomery49 min
Jan 22, 5:19 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXCheatham46 min
Jan 22, 5:24 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXRobertson61 min
Jan 22, 11:16 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGChester34 min
Jan 22, 11:40 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGHenderson, Madison50 min
Jan 22, 11:51 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGHardeman34 min
Jan 22, 12:12 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGMcNairy33 min
Jan 22, 1:00 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXDecatur60 min
Jan 22, 1:11 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGMcNairy34 min
Jan 22, 1:18 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGHardin32 min
Jan 22, 5:30 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXLincoln45 min
Feb 11, 7:39 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXStewart51 min
Feb 11, 7:51 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXBenton, Humphreys49 min
Feb 11, 8:11 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXMontgomery, Stewart64 min
May 5, 4:17 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGShelby33 min
May 5, 5:21 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCrockett, Haywood34 min
May 5, 6:02 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGShelby33 min
May 5, 6:14 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXBenton, Houston, Stewart31 min
May 5, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMontgomery32 min
May 5, 6:54 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGHardeman, Madison36 min
May 5, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGMadison32 min
May 5, 7:40 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGMcNairy35 min
May 5, 7:52 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDecatur, Perry63 min
May 5, 8:20 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXBenton, Humphreys50 min
May 5, 9:40 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDavidson30 min
May 5, 10:07 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXSumner48 min
May 5, 10:21 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMacon, Trousdale49 min
May 5, 10:25 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDeKalb, Warren50 min
May 5, 10:50 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXPutnam, White50 min
May 5, 11:07 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXFentress, Overton63 min
May 7, 3:03 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXHancock62 min
May 23, 5:50 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDeKalb, Putnam, Smith40 min
Jun 24, 6:20 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXBedford25 min
Jun 28, 2:38 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGDyer47 min
Jul 1, 8:49 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXHouston36 min
Aug 12, 4:48 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXRutherford27 min

By county

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

8 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 22, 199934tornado warnings
  2. January 18, 199920tornado warnings
  3. May 6, 199910tornado warnings
  4. May 5, 19996tornado warnings
  5. February 12, 19993tornado warnings
  6. May 7, 19991tornado warnings
  7. May 23, 19991tornado warnings
  8. June 24, 19991tornado warnings
  9. June 28, 19991tornado warnings
  10. July 2, 19991tornado warnings
  11. August 12, 19991tornado 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.