Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Tennessee, May 1997
6 tornado watches in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 27, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Chester, Coffee and 27 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Shelby | 6 hr |
| May 27, 2:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, McNairy, Shelby, Tipton | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Shelby County5
- Benton County4
- Carroll County4
- Chester County4
- Crockett County4
- Dyer County4
- Fayette County4
- Gibson County4
- Hardeman County4
- Haywood County4
- Madison County4
- Tipton County4
- Decatur County3
- Henderson County3
- Lauderdale County3
- McNairy County3
- Hardin County2
- Henry County2
- Humphreys County2
- Lake County2
- Obion County2
- Perry County2
- Weakley County2
- Houston County1
- Montgomery County1
- Stewart County1
- Bedford County1
- Cannon County1
- Coffee County1
- Giles County1
- Hickman County1
- Lawrence County1
- Lewis County1
- Lincoln County1
- Marshall County1
- Maury County1
- Moore County1
- Rutherford County1
- Wayne County1
- Williamson 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.