Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings / 2009
Tornado Warnings in Tennessee, May 2009
30 tornado warnings in May 2009. 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 May 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 30
- Busiest day
- May 8, 200916 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Wayne | 25 min |
| May 1, 2:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury | 34 min |
| May 1, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Marshall | 34 min |
| May 1, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Lincoln | 46 min |
| May 3, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 33 min |
| May 6, 9:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Lincoln, Moore | 28 min |
| May 8, 1:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Stewart | 44 min |
| May 8, 1:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Robertson | 47 min |
| May 8, 2:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon, Sumner | 31 min |
| May 8, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 45 min |
| May 8, 2:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 37 min |
| May 8, 3:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Macon | 22 min |
| May 8, 3:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 31 min |
| May 8, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Overton, Pickett | 51 min |
| May 8, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Overton, Pickett | 28 min |
| May 8, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Blount, McMinn, Monroe | 62 min |
| May 8, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Fentress, Pickett | 28 min |
| May 8, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Morgan, Scott | 60 min |
| May 8, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Fentress | 16 min |
| May 8, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Campbell, Claiborne, Union | 54 min |
| May 8, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger, Union | 52 min |
| May 8, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins | 64 min |
| May 8, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Greene, Hawkins, Sullivan, Washington | 51 min |
| May 8, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Carter, Johnson, Sullivan, Washington | 43 min |
| May 24, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lauderdale | 47 min |
| May 24, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer | 49 min |
| May 24, 5:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lauderdale | 41 min |
| May 24, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer | 43 min |
| May 24, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer | 26 min |
| May 24, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crockett, Dyer | 48 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dyer County6
- Macon County4
- Pickett County3
- Claiborne County3
- Lawrence County2
- Lewis County2
- Maury County2
- Giles County2
- Lincoln County2
- Montgomery County2
- Robertson County2
- Sumner County2
- Clay County2
- Overton County2
- Fentress County2
- Campbell County2
- Union County2
- Grainger County2
- Greene County2
- Hawkins County2
- Sullivan County2
- Washington County2
- Lauderdale County2
- Wayne County1
- Marshall County1
- Cumberland County1
- Moore County1
- Stewart County1
- Blount County1
- McMinn County1
- Monroe County1
- Morgan County1
- Scott County1
- Hamblen County1
- Hancock County1
- Carter County1
- Johnson County1
- Crockett 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.