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Tornado Warnings in Tennessee, 2024

76 tornado warnings in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
76
Busiest month
May62 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 8, 202423 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 12, 6:50 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGShelby, Tipton23 min
Mar 15, 4:39 AM CDTTornado WarningHUNFranklin36 min
Apr 2, 8:50 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGCrockett, Gibson, Haywood, Lauderdale26 min
Apr 2, 9:14 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGCarroll, Gibson, Henderson28 min
Apr 2, 4:07 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXCampbell, Morgan, Scott53 min
Apr 2, 4:44 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatMRXCampbell, Scott46 min
Apr 2, 5:23 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXCampbell, Claiborne12 min
Apr 2, 5:53 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNLincoln37 min
Apr 2, 6:28 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNFranklin, Lincoln, Moore32 min
Apr 2, 6:59 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNFranklin, Lincoln, Moore31 min
May 6, 2:55 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXSmith, Wilson16 min
May 6, 4:24 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDeKalb, White36 min
May 6, 4:57 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXWhite14 min
May 8, 7:23 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXClay, Jackson, Overton37 min
May 8, 9:26 AM CDTTornado WarningMRXGrainger, Hamblen34 min
May 8, 2:06 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCheatham, Montgomery24 min
May 8, 2:47 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOHXMontgomery, Robertson28 min
May 8, 3:09 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXRobertson36 min
May 8, 3:13 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXStewart47 min
May 8, 3:34 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGBenton, Henry41 min
May 8, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXRobertson, Sumner23 min
May 8, 3:42 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMontgomery, Stewart30 min
May 8, 3:56 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXHickman, Humphreys, Perry34 min
May 8, 4:06 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXHouston, Stewart24 min
May 8, 4:18 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXLewis, Perry, Wayne27 min
May 8, 4:42 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXHickman, Lewis, Maury33 min
May 8, 4:49 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDickson, Houston, Montgomery10 min
May 8, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCheatham, Robertson30 min
May 8, 5:10 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXLewis, Maury35 min
May 8, 5:23 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDavidson, Robertson, Sumner12 min
May 8, 5:41 PM CDTTornado Warning EmergencyOHXMarshall, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson34 min
May 8, 5:57 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMacon, Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson33 min
May 8, 6:10 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOHXBedford, Marshall, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson35 min
May 8, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXSmith, Trousdale, Wilson33 min
May 8, 6:36 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXBedford, Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford39 min
May 8, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDeKalb, Putnam, Smith30 min
May 8, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXBedford, Marshall, Rutherford37 min
May 8, 7:24 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Warren, White36 min
May 8, 7:38 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXBedford, Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford, Warren37 min
May 8, 7:46 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCumberland, Fentress, Overton, Putnam29 min
May 8, 7:50 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXBedford, Giles, Marshall25 min
May 8, 7:52 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNLincoln, Moore38 min
May 8, 7:56 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXGiles34 min
May 8, 7:57 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedHUNLincoln33 min
May 8, 8:04 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXBledsoe, Sequatchie41 min
May 8, 8:09 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCumberland, Fentress36 min
May 8, 8:19 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCoffee, Grundy, Warren26 min
May 8, 8:26 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNFranklin, Lincoln, Moore49 min
May 8, 8:41 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCoffee, Grundy, Warren49 min
May 8, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNFranklin29 min
May 8, 9:06 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNFranklin, Lincoln, Moore54 min
May 8, 9:53 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNFranklin22 min
May 9, 1:06 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXHickman, Perry24 min
May 9, 3:13 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXBedford, Marshall, Maury32 min
May 9, 4:21 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXGrundy9 min
May 9, 4:23 AM CDTTornado WarningMRXBledsoe, Marion, Sequatchie21 min
May 9, 5:09 AM CDTTornado WarningMRXBradley, Hamilton14 min
May 23, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCumberland, White33 min
May 26, 7:28 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGLake, Obion24 min
May 26, 9:48 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXRobertson13 min
May 26, 9:56 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXRobertson, Sumner19 min
May 26, 10:06 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXMacon, Sumner24 min
May 26, 1:11 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXClaiborne, Hancock34 min
May 26, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXRoane23 min
May 26, 3:48 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXGrainger, Hamblen, Jefferson24 min
May 26, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXCampbell, Scott, Union12 min
May 26, 4:18 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXMonroe, Polk42 min
May 27, 12:58 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGChester, Hardeman, Hardin, Henderson, Madison47 min
May 27, 1:19 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGChester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy41 min
May 27, 1:51 AM CDTTornado WarningHUNFranklin39 min
May 27, 2:14 AM CDTTornado WarningMRXClaiborne, Hancock46 min
May 27, 2:25 AM CDTTornado WarningMRXClaiborne, Grainger, Hancock, Hawkins27 min
Jul 9, 2:27 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMontgomery, Robertson20 min
Sep 24, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXOverton, Pickett20 min
Sep 24, 5:18 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXHancock, Hawkins42 min
Dec 18, 7:23 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXHickman, Lewis, Perry22 min

By county

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

35 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 8, 202423tornado warnings
  2. May 9, 202421tornado warnings
  3. May 26, 20249tornado warnings
  4. April 2, 20248tornado warnings
  5. May 27, 20245tornado warnings
  6. May 6, 20243tornado warnings
  7. September 24, 20242tornado warnings
  8. January 12, 20241tornado warnings
  9. March 15, 20241tornado warnings
  10. May 23, 20241tornado warnings
  11. July 9, 20241tornado warnings
  12. December 18, 20241tornado 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.