Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Tennessee, May 1998
7 tornado watches in May 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
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- Busiest day
- May 7, 19984 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 6, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dyer, Fayette, Lake, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 6 hr |
| May 6, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 3:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Cheatham, Chester, Coffee and 35 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell and 43 more | 7 hr |
| May 7, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson and 12 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson and 12 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dyer County4
- Fayette County4
- Lake County4
- Lauderdale County4
- Shelby County4
- Tipton County4
- Chester County4
- Hardeman County4
- Henderson County4
- McNairy County4
- Carroll County3
- Crockett County3
- Gibson County3
- Haywood County3
- Henry County3
- Madison County3
- Obion County3
- Weakley County3
- Benton County2
- Decatur County2
- Hardin County2
- Houston County2
- Humphreys County2
- Perry County2
- Wayne County2
- Bedford County2
- Cannon County2
- Coffee County2
- Davidson County2
- DeKalb County2
- Fentress County2
- Jackson County2
- Lincoln County2
- Macon County2
- Marshall County2
- Moore County2
- Overton County2
- Putnam County2
- Rutherford County2
- Smith County2
55 more counties
- Sumner County2
- Trousdale County2
- Warren County2
- White County2
- Wilson County2
- Stewart County1
- Cheatham County1
- Dickson County1
- Giles County1
- Hickman County1
- Lawrence County1
- Lewis County1
- Maury County1
- Montgomery County1
- Robertson County1
- Williamson County1
- Anderson County1
- Bledsoe County1
- Blount County1
- Bradley County1
- Campbell County1
- Claiborne County1
- Clay County1
- Cumberland County1
- Franklin County1
- Grainger County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamilton County1
- Jefferson County1
- Knox County1
- Loudon County1
- McMinn County1
- Marion County1
- Meigs County1
- Monroe County1
- Morgan County1
- Pickett County1
- Polk County1
- Rhea County1
- Roane County1
- Scott County1
- Sequatchie County1
- Sevier County1
- Union County1
- Van Buren County1
- Carter County1
- Cocke County1
- Greene County1
- Hamblen County1
- Hancock County1
- Hawkins County1
- Johnson County1
- Sullivan County1
- Unicoi County1
- Washington County1
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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.