Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Tennessee, February 1997
5 tornado watches in February 1997. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in February 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- February 21, 19973 tornado watches
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Haywood, Lake, Lauderdale and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 4:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Decatur, Giles, Hardin, Henderson, Lawrence and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 7:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Bradley, Campbell, Cannon and 40 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 26, 8:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 27, 12:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Davidson and 24 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Giles County3
- Lincoln County3
- Marshall County3
- Maury County3
- Crockett County2
- Dyer County2
- Fayette County2
- Haywood County2
- Lake County2
- Lauderdale County2
- Obion County2
- Shelby County2
- Tipton County2
- Chester County2
- Decatur County2
- Hardin County2
- Henderson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lewis County2
- McNairy County2
- Madison County2
- Perry County2
- Wayne County2
- Bedford County2
- Cannon County2
- Clay County2
- Coffee County2
- Davidson County2
- DeKalb County2
- Franklin County2
- Jackson County2
- Macon County2
- Moore County2
- Robertson County2
- Rutherford County2
- Smith County2
- Sumner County2
- Trousdale County2
- Warren County2
- Williamson County2
38 more counties
- Wilson County2
- Anderson County1
- Bledsoe County1
- Bradley County1
- Campbell County1
- Cumberland County1
- Fentress County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamilton County1
- Loudon County1
- McMinn County1
- Marion County1
- Meigs County1
- Monroe County1
- Morgan County1
- Overton County1
- Pickett County1
- Polk County1
- Putnam County1
- Rhea County1
- Roane County1
- Scott County1
- Sequatchie County1
- Van Buren County1
- White County1
- Benton County1
- Carroll County1
- Gibson County1
- Hardeman County1
- Henry County1
- Houston County1
- Humphreys County1
- Stewart County1
- Weakley County1
- Cheatham County1
- Dickson County1
- Hickman County1
- Montgomery County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.