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Tornado Warnings in Tennessee, 2012
154 tornado warnings in 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 154
- Busiest month
- March94 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- March 2, 201261 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 12:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Maury, Williamson | 12 min |
| Jan 17, 12:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson | 34 min |
| Jan 17, 1:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 20 min |
| Jan 21, 12:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lewis, Maury, Williamson | 35 min |
| Jan 22, 9:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crockett, Gibson, Haywood | 43 min |
| Jan 22, 9:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Shelby | 22 min |
| Jan 22, 10:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Gibson, Obion, Weakley | 37 min |
| Jan 22, 10:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Shelby | 35 min |
| Jan 22, 10:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 10:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henry, Weakley | 36 min |
| Jan 22, 11:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin, McNairy | 33 min |
| Jan 22, 11:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 37 min |
| Jan 23, 12:25 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Perry, Wayne | 20 min |
| Jan 23, 12:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery | 35 min |
| Jan 23, 12:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Williamson | 37 min |
| Jan 23, 1:21 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson, Sumner, Williamson | 39 min |
| Jan 23, 1:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner, Williamson, Wilson | 23 min |
| Feb 22, 5:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Van Buren, Warren, White | 58 min |
| Feb 24, 3:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Hawkins, Morgan, Scott, Sullivan | 6 days |
| Feb 29, 11:26 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Houston, Montgomery, Stewart | 34 min |
| Feb 29, 3:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Putnam, White | 29 min |
| Feb 29, 4:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, Putnam, White | 36 min |
| Feb 29, 4:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell, Morgan, Scott | 39 min |
| Feb 29, 4:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell, Morgan, Scott | 38 min |
| Feb 29, 6:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Blount, Loudon, Monroe, Sevier | 40 min |
| Feb 29, 9:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Fentress, Overton | 14 min |
| Feb 29, 9:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Fentress, Overton | 14 min |
| Feb 29, 10:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Campbell, Claiborne, Scott, Union | 43 min |
| Feb 29, 10:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Hawkins, Sullivan | 25 min |
| Feb 29, 11:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Sullivan | 33 min |
| Mar 2, 9:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Overton, Putnam, White | 33 min |
| Mar 2, 9:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lincoln | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 9:51 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee, Grundy, Warren | 24 min |
| Mar 2, 9:55 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Franklin | 9 min |
| Mar 2, 9:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Fentress, Overton, Putnam | 32 min |
| Mar 2, 9:59 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lincoln | 31 min |
| Mar 2, 10:10 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Franklin | 35 min |
| Mar 2, 10:12 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee, Grundy, Van Buren, Warren | 33 min |
| Mar 2, 10:24 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Franklin | 36 min |
| Mar 2, 10:25 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Sequatchie | 35 min |
| Mar 2, 10:31 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Marion | 44 min |
| Mar 2, 10:39 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Morgan | 22 min |
| Mar 2, 10:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Marion | 41 min |
| Mar 2, 10:55 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Campbell, Morgan, Scott | 35 min |
| Mar 2, 10:57 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Rhea | 33 min |
| Mar 2, 11:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Marion, Sequatchie | 44 min |
| Mar 2, 11:25 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Hancock | 35 min |
| Mar 2, 11:29 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Campbell, Claiborne | 31 min |
| Mar 2, 11:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Loudon, Meigs, Rhea, Roane | 30 min |
| Mar 2, 11:50 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Polk | 25 min |
| Mar 2, 12:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Knox, Sevier | 26 min |
| Mar 2, 12:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bradley, McMinn, Monroe, Polk | 37 min |
| Mar 2, 12:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Cocke, Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson, Knox, Sevier | 36 min |
| Mar 2, 12:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Blount, Monroe | 41 min |
| Mar 2, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Lincoln | 30 min |
| Mar 2, 2:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles | 27 min |
| Mar 2, 2:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy | 33 min |
| Mar 2, 2:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 32 min |
| Mar 2, 2:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Carroll, Gibson, Henderson, Madison | 27 min |
| Mar 2, 2:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Marion, Sequatchie | 41 min |
| Mar 2, 2:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Lincoln | 18 min |
| Mar 2, 2:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Fayette, Hardeman | 32 min |
| Mar 2, 3:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys | 44 min |
| Mar 2, 3:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardeman, McNairy | 32 min |
| Mar 2, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Franklin | 19 min |
| Mar 2, 3:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy | 23 min |
| Mar 2, 3:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Marion, Sequatchie | 51 min |
| Mar 2, 3:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Williamson | 42 min |
| Mar 2, 3:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy | 39 min |
| Mar 2, 3:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee, Grundy | 32 min |
| Mar 2, 3:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys, Williamson | 28 min |
| Mar 2, 3:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin | 24 min |
| Mar 2, 3:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lincoln | 14 min |
| Mar 2, 3:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 32 min |
| Mar 2, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson, Wilson | 50 min |
| Mar 2, 4:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 27 min |
| Mar 2, 4:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Anderson, Knox | 31 min |
| Mar 2, 4:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Hamilton, Meigs, Rhea | 27 min |
| Mar 2, 4:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Scott | 37 min |
| Mar 2, 4:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Wayne | 35 min |
| Mar 2, 4:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Jackson, Putnam, Smith, Trousdale, Wilson | 32 min |
| Mar 2, 4:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Campbell, Claiborne, Scott | 33 min |
| Mar 2, 4:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Maury | 33 min |
| Mar 2, 5:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Maury | 28 min |
| Mar 2, 5:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Fentress, Jackson, Overton, Pickett, Putnam and 1 more | 47 min |
| Mar 2, 5:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Marshall, Maury, Williamson | 21 min |
| Mar 2, 5:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton | 47 min |
| Mar 2, 5:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Maury | 23 min |
| Mar 2, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Blount, Loudon, McMinn, Monroe | 45 min |
| Mar 2, 5:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Fentress, Overton, Pickett | 36 min |
| Mar 2, 5:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Maury | 31 min |
| Mar 2, 6:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Blount, Cocke, Jefferson, Sevier | 43 min |
| Mar 2, 6:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Polk | 39 min |
| Mar 2, 6:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Campbell, Scott | 50 min |
| Mar 2, 6:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee, Warren | 30 min |
| Mar 2, 6:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Giles, Marshall, Maury | 24 min |
| Mar 2, 6:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Wayne | 18 min |
| Mar 2, 6:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 24 min |
| Mar 2, 6:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Cocke, Sevier | 35 min |
| Mar 2, 6:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 6:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Campbell, Claiborne, Scott | 42 min |
| Mar 2, 6:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton, Polk | 26 min |
| Mar 2, 7:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Rhea | 38 min |
| Mar 2, 7:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 21 min |
| Mar 2, 7:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Polk | 35 min |
| Mar 2, 7:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Hancock, Hawkins | 39 min |
| Mar 2, 7:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 38 min |
| Mar 2, 7:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Polk | 40 min |
| Mar 2, 7:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Loudon, Morgan, Rhea, Roane | 37 min |
| Mar 2, 7:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Hancock, Hawkins, Sullivan | 49 min |
| Mar 2, 8:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Anderson, Knox, Morgan, Roane | 40 min |
| Mar 2, 8:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Anderson, Grainger, Jefferson, Knox, Sevier, Union | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 8:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Johnson, Sullivan | 60 min |
| Mar 2, 8:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Grainger, Greene, Hancock, Hawkins | 46 min |
| Mar 2, 9:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MRX | Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hawkins, Jefferson and 1 more | 25 min |
| Mar 23, 9:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Hamilton, Marion, Meigs, Rhea, Sequatchie | 48 min |
| Mar 31, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles | 19 min |
| Mar 31, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles | 18 min |
| Apr 5, 12:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lake | 20 min |
| Apr 26, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Scott | 26 min |
| Apr 26, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Williamson | 29 min |
| May 5, 4:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Overton, Pickett | 36 min |
| Jun 3, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Perry, Wayne | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Decatur, Hardin | 14 min |
| Jun 3, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 37 min |
| Jun 3, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lauderdale | 26 min |
| Jun 3, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | McNairy | 36 min |
| Jun 3, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin, McNairy | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin, McNairy | 13 min |
| Jun 3, 9:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crockett, Haywood, Madison | 28 min |
| Aug 1, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton | 28 min |
| Sep 1, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 30 min |
| Sep 1, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lake | 48 min |
| Sep 1, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lake, Obion | 46 min |
| Sep 1, 10:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Fayette, Hardeman | 22 min |
| Sep 2, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lincoln | 35 min |
| Sep 2, 5:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Franklin | 26 min |
| Sep 2, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Marion | 45 min |
| Sep 2, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Shelby | 24 min |
| Sep 17, 1:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford | 29 min |
| Sep 17, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford | 35 min |
| Sep 17, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon, Coffee, Warren | 34 min |
| Sep 17, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren, White | 33 min |
| Sep 17, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee | 54 min |
| Sep 17, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Warren, White | 34 min |
| Sep 17, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren, White | 32 min |
| Sep 17, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon, Warren | 47 min |
| Oct 1, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Smith, Trousdale, Wilson | 32 min |
| Oct 1, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Smith, Trousdale | 19 min |
| Oct 1, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Marion | 29 min |
| Oct 17, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Shelby, Tipton | 52 min |
| Oct 17, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Shelby, Tipton | 25 min |
| Oct 17, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Fayette, Haywood, Shelby, Tipton | 35 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Williamson County11
- Warren County10
- Scott County10
- Franklin County10
- Maury County9
- Wayne County9
- Overton County8
- Campbell County8
- Marion County8
- Hamilton County8
- Giles County8
- Hickman County7
- Shelby County7
- White County7
- Morgan County7
- Sevier County7
- Claiborne County7
- Lincoln County7
- Davidson County6
- Lawrence County6
- Van Buren County6
- Hawkins County6
- Putnam County6
- Fentress County6
- Coffee County6
- Grundy County6
- Bledsoe County6
- Rhea County6
- Polk County6
- Marshall County6
- Wilson County5
- Hardin County5
- McNairy County5
- Dickson County5
- Sullivan County5
- DeKalb County5
- Anderson County5
- Sequatchie County5
- Bradley County5
- Knox County5
51 more counties
- Bedford County5
- Rutherford County4
- Fayette County4
- Cheatham County4
- Blount County4
- Loudon County4
- Monroe County4
- Hancock County4
- Cocke County4
- Grainger County4
- Jefferson County4
- Smith County4
- Gibson County3
- Haywood County3
- Humphreys County3
- Cumberland County3
- Meigs County3
- Roane County3
- McMinn County3
- Hardeman County3
- Trousdale County3
- Pickett County3
- Lake County3
- Tipton County3
- Lewis County2
- Crockett County2
- Obion County2
- Weakley County2
- Perry County2
- Houston County2
- Montgomery County2
- Sumner County2
- Union County2
- Hamblen County2
- Madison County2
- Jackson County2
- Clay County2
- Greene County2
- Dyer County2
- Cannon County2
- Henry County1
- Robertson County1
- Stewart County1
- Moore County1
- Carroll County1
- Henderson County1
- Benton County1
- Johnson County1
- Decatur County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Macon County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.