Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Watches / 2000
Tornado Watches in Tennessee, May 2000
5 tornado watches in May 2000. 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 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 24, 20002 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 9, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson and 10 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Cumberland and 17 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Clay, Davidson and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Cheatham, Claiborne, Clay and 24 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Clay and 36 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Carroll County3
- Henry County3
- Overton County3
- Cheatham County3
- Clay County3
- Davidson County3
- Houston County3
- Jackson County3
- Macon County3
- Montgomery County3
- Robertson County3
- Smith County3
- Stewart County3
- Sumner County3
- Trousdale County3
- Wilson County3
- Chester County2
- Crockett County2
- Fayette County2
- Gibson County2
- Hardeman County2
- Haywood County2
- Madison County2
- Shelby County2
- Weakley County2
- Anderson County2
- Blount County2
- Campbell County2
- Claiborne County2
- Cumberland County2
- Fentress County2
- Knox County2
- Loudon County2
- Morgan County2
- Pickett County2
- Roane County2
- Scott County2
- Union County2
- White County2
- Benton County2
34 more counties
- DeKalb County2
- Dickson County2
- Henderson County2
- Hickman County2
- Humphreys County2
- Perry County2
- Putnam County2
- Rutherford County2
- Williamson County2
- Dyer County1
- Lake County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Obion County1
- Tipton County1
- Bledsoe County1
- Grainger County1
- Hamblen County1
- Hancock County1
- Jefferson County1
- Rhea County1
- Sevier County1
- Van Buren County1
- Cannon County1
- Warren County1
- Bedford County1
- Decatur County1
- Giles County1
- Hardin County1
- Lawrence County1
- Lewis County1
- McNairy County1
- Marshall County1
- Maury County1
- Wayne 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.