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Tornado Warnings in Tennessee, 2018

58 tornado warnings in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
58
Busiest month
November29 tornado warnings
Busiest day
November 6, 201828 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
Feb 24, 6:06 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGLauderdale27 min
Feb 24, 6:30 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGDyer, Lake, Obion45 min
Feb 24, 7:03 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatMEGObion, Weakley42 min
Feb 24, 7:20 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGCarroll, Gibson, Weakley40 min
Feb 24, 7:30 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedMEGHenry, Weakley30 min
Feb 24, 7:39 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGCarroll, Henderson, Madison51 min
Feb 24, 7:43 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGBenton, Carroll, Henry, Weakley47 min
Feb 24, 8:17 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXHouston, Stewart43 min
Feb 24, 8:29 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXCheatham, Dickson, Houston, Montgomery, Stewart46 min
Feb 24, 8:57 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatOHXMontgomery, Robertson33 min
Feb 24, 9:20 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXRobertson25 min
Feb 24, 9:36 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGMcNairy39 min
Mar 17, 6:29 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXMcMinn, Monroe, Polk31 min
Mar 19, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNLincoln35 min
Mar 19, 6:55 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNLincoln35 min
Mar 19, 7:31 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNFranklin10 min
Mar 19, 7:48 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNFranklin8 min
Jun 22, 12:46 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNLincoln29 min
Jun 23, 8:01 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXWayne29 min
Jun 23, 8:55 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXLawrence, Wayne35 min
Jun 23, 9:28 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXLawrence, Wayne32 min
Jul 20, 8:34 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCumberland, Fentress, Overton, Putnam26 min
Jul 20, 8:47 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCumberland, Putnam, White28 min
Jul 20, 9:10 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCumberland, White35 min
Jul 20, 9:31 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXBledsoe, Rhea44 min
Jul 20, 10:10 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXBledsoe, Meigs, Rhea50 min
Aug 20, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGDyer37 min
Sep 24, 4:53 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDeKalb26 min
Oct 31, 6:32 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGMadison28 min
Nov 1, 12:50 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXBradley, Hamilton25 min
Nov 5, 8:20 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGBenton, Carroll, Henry40 min
Nov 5, 9:18 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXCheatham, Dickson, Montgomery27 min
Nov 5, 9:55 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXCheatham, Davidson, Robertson, Sumner35 min
Nov 5, 10:20 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXSumner, Trousdale, Wilson25 min
Nov 5, 10:28 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGHardin8 min
Nov 5, 10:31 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXWayne29 min
Nov 5, 10:33 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXHickman, Lewis, Maury, Perry, Wayne27 min
Nov 5, 10:55 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXLawrence, Lewis, Wayne35 min
Nov 5, 10:55 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXHickman, Lewis, Maury21 min
Nov 5, 11:08 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXLawrence, Wayne37 min
Nov 5, 11:15 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXHickman, Maury, Williamson30 min
Nov 5, 11:31 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXMarshall, Maury29 min
Nov 5, 11:37 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXWilliamson23 min
Nov 5, 11:38 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXLawrence, Wayne37 min
Nov 5, 11:59 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXRutherford, Williamson31 min
Nov 6, 12:00 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXBedford, Marshall, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson30 min
Nov 6, 12:01 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXGiles, Lawrence29 min
Nov 6, 12:18 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXCannon, Rutherford, Wilson14 min
Nov 6, 12:23 AM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedOHXCannon, Rutherford37 min
Nov 6, 12:27 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXGiles18 min
Nov 6, 12:42 AM CSTTornado WarningHUNLincoln, Moore33 min
Nov 6, 12:43 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXCannon, DeKalb, Rutherford, Smith, Wilson32 min
Nov 6, 1:15 AM CSTTornado WarningHUNFranklin18 min
Nov 6, 1:23 AM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedOHXCoffee, Grundy39 min
Nov 6, 1:28 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXPutnam, White15 min
Nov 6, 1:46 AM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedMRXBledsoe, Sequatchie44 min
Nov 6, 3:39 AM CSTTornado WarningMRXBradley, McMinn, Polk36 min
Nov 6, 3:57 AM CSTTornado WarningMRXMcMinn, Monroe30 min

By county

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

16 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. November 6, 201828tornado warnings
  2. February 25, 201812tornado warnings
  3. July 21, 20185tornado warnings
  4. June 24, 20183tornado warnings
  5. March 19, 20182tornado warnings
  6. March 20, 20182tornado warnings
  7. March 17, 20181tornado warnings
  8. June 22, 20181tornado warnings
  9. August 21, 20181tornado warnings
  10. September 24, 20181tornado warnings
  11. October 31, 20181tornado warnings
  12. November 1, 20181tornado 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. Rebuilt daily.