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Tornado Warnings in Tennessee, 2020

62 tornado warnings in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
62
Busiest month
March25 tornado warnings
Busiest day
March 3, 202011 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 11, 5:01 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGFayette, Shelby29 min
Jan 11, 5:36 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGFayette, Hardeman24 min
Jan 11, 7:29 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXHumphreys15 min
Jan 11, 2:39 PM CSTTornado WarningMRXBledsoe, Hamilton, Marion, Sequatchie20 min
Jan 11, 3:18 PM CSTTornado WarningMRXMcMinn, Meigs, Rhea, Roane27 min
Jan 11, 3:31 PM CSTTornado WarningMRXPolk29 min
Jan 11, 4:54 PM CSTTornado WarningMRXClaiborne, Hancock24 min
Feb 5, 6:34 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXBedford, Marshall26 min
Feb 5, 6:48 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXBedford, Coffee, Rutherford15 min
Mar 2, 11:02 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGBenton, Henry25 min
Mar 2, 11:13 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXHouston, Humphreys32 min
Mar 2, 11:40 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXDickson, Houston, Humphreys35 min
Mar 3, 12:35 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXDavidson, Sumner, Wilson25 min
Mar 3, 12:53 AM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatOHXDavidson, Wilson37 min
Mar 3, 1:17 AM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatOHXJackson, Smith, Wilson13 min
Mar 3, 1:48 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXJackson, Overton, Putnam27 min
Mar 3, 1:56 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXCumberland, Putnam, White20 min
Mar 3, 2:12 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXCumberland, Fentress, Overton, Putnam33 min
Mar 3, 2:35 AM CSTTornado WarningMRXMorgan25 min
Mar 3, 3:35 AM CSTTornado WarningMRXKnox25 min
Mar 20, 2:30 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGCrockett, Dyer, Gibson30 min
Mar 20, 11:24 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXOverton, Putnam18 min
Mar 20, 12:10 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXFentress24 min
Mar 24, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXGiles, Lawrence33 min
Mar 24, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNFranklin, Moore45 min
Mar 24, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNFranklin17 min
Mar 24, 7:11 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXMarion34 min
Mar 24, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXGrundy27 min
Mar 24, 7:43 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXMarion, Sequatchie20 min
Mar 28, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGDyer34 min
Mar 28, 7:21 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGDyer, Lake, Obion24 min
Mar 28, 8:48 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGHardeman, Haywood, Madison27 min
Mar 28, 10:23 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDickson, Humphreys18 min
Mar 29, 2:29 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXCumberland, Putnam, White16 min
Apr 12, 8:59 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXPolk31 min
Apr 12, 10:16 PM CDTTornado Warning EmergencyMRXHamilton, Polk29 min
Apr 12, 10:28 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatMRXBradley, Polk32 min
Apr 12, 10:56 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXBradley, McMinn, Polk34 min
Apr 25, 4:46 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXSmith, Wilson16 min
May 3, 3:31 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGDecatur, Henderson26 min
May 3, 5:23 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXClay, Jackson, Macon, Smith, Trousdale16 min
Jun 4, 5:29 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCarroll, Crockett, Gibson, Madison31 min
Jun 4, 6:14 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCarroll, Gibson, Henderson31 min
Jun 4, 6:43 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGBenton, Carroll, Decatur, Henderson32 min
Jun 4, 7:14 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMEGBenton, Carroll, Decatur, Henderson46 min
Jun 4, 8:03 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXPerry27 min
Jun 4, 8:28 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXHickman, Perry32 min
Jun 4, 8:58 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXHickman, Lewis, Maury32 min
Aug 28, 5:55 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGCrockett, Dyer, Haywood10 min
Aug 28, 7:21 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGHardeman, McNairy16 min
Aug 28, 8:03 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGChester, Hardeman, McNairy6 min
Aug 28, 10:36 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGHardin9 min
Aug 28, 10:52 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGHardin23 min
Aug 28, 12:01 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDickson, Hickman, Maury, Williamson14 min
Aug 28, 12:14 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCheatham, Dickson, Hickman, Williamson17 min
Aug 28, 12:47 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDavidson28 min
Aug 28, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXWarren15 min
Aug 28, 6:54 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCumberland, Overton, Putnam, White16 min
Sep 1, 4:28 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXWilliamson32 min
Sep 1, 5:18 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGLake27 min
Sep 1, 5:35 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGLake, Obion25 min
Sep 1, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGObion24 min

By county

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

24 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 3, 202011tornado warnings
  2. August 28, 202010tornado warnings
  3. January 11, 20207tornado warnings
  4. March 25, 20204tornado warnings
  5. March 29, 20204tornado warnings
  6. April 13, 20204tornado warnings
  7. June 5, 20204tornado warnings
  8. September 1, 20204tornado warnings
  9. March 20, 20203tornado warnings
  10. June 4, 20203tornado warnings
  11. February 6, 20202tornado warnings
  12. March 24, 20202tornado warnings

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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.