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Tornado Warnings in Tennessee, May 2025

40 tornado warnings in May 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
40
Busiest day
May 20, 202522 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 7:51 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGDyer, Lauderdale39 min
May 17, 1:27 AM CDTTornado WarningMRXBradley, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Polk48 min
May 20, 8:29 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGFayette, Hardeman, McNairy46 min
May 20, 12:40 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXLawrence, Wayne50 min
May 20, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXAnderson, Knox, Morgan, Roane45 min
May 20, 2:14 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXGiles15 min
May 20, 2:20 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNLincoln, Moore40 min
May 20, 2:55 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNFranklin, Lincoln, Moore50 min
May 20, 3:02 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOHXHickman, Lewis, Maury28 min
May 20, 3:10 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCarroll, Gibson, Henderson, Madison50 min
May 20, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNFranklin35 min
May 20, 3:39 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXHickman36 min
May 20, 4:09 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGBenton, Carroll, Henderson51 min
May 20, 4:27 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXLawrence, Lewis, Maury33 min
May 20, 4:32 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXStewart28 min
May 20, 4:55 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMarshall, Maury, Williamson35 min
May 20, 5:11 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMontgomery, Robertson21 min
May 20, 5:23 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXBedford, Marshall, Rutherford37 min
May 20, 5:26 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMontgomery, Robertson34 min
May 20, 5:48 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXBedford, Cannon, Coffee, Grundy, Warren42 min
May 20, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCannon, Coffee, Rutherford35 min
May 20, 6:24 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXBedford, Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford51 min
May 20, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXVan Buren, Warren33 min
May 20, 6:54 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCumberland, Van Buren, White66 min
May 20, 7:06 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCannon, Coffee, Grundy, Van Buren, Warren54 min
May 20, 7:21 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedHUNFranklin39 min
May 20, 7:32 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXBledsoe, Rhea43 min
May 20, 7:46 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXMorgan, Rhea, Roane59 min
May 20, 7:53 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCumberland25 min
May 20, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCumberland, Van Buren45 min
May 20, 8:02 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXBledsoe43 min
May 20, 8:09 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXMcMinn, Meigs, Rhea33 min
May 20, 8:59 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXAnderson, Knox, Sevier46 min
May 25, 12:51 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGFayette, Hardeman, Shelby20 min
May 25, 3:41 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNFranklin, Lincoln, Moore49 min
May 25, 3:54 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNFranklin, Lincoln, Moore40 min
May 25, 4:22 PM CDTTornado WarningMRXHamilton, Marion, Sequatchie38 min
May 25, 4:24 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNFranklin51 min
May 27, 8:31 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNFranklin29 min
May 30, 8:10 AM CDTTornado WarningMRXBlount, Loudon23 min

By county

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

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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.