Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Tennessee, April 2002
6 tornado watches in April 2002. 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 April 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- April 28, 20025 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Robertson | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Crockett, Dickson, Dyer and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Davidson, DeKalb, Fentress and 15 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 28, 11:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Cheatham, Clay, Davidson, DeKalb, Dickson and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 29 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Cannon and 36 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Robertson County3
- Cheatham County3
- DeKalb County3
- Benton County2
- Dickson County2
- Gibson County2
- Henry County2
- Houston County2
- Humphreys County2
- Montgomery County2
- Stewart County2
- Cannon County2
- Clay County2
- Davidson County2
- Fentress County2
- Hickman County2
- Jackson County2
- Macon County2
- Maury County2
- Overton County2
- Perry County2
- Pickett County2
- Putnam County2
- Rutherford County2
- Smith County2
- Sumner County2
- Trousdale County2
- White County2
- Williamson County2
- Wilson County2
- Scott County2
- Anderson County2
- Bledsoe County2
- Blount County2
- Bradley County2
- Cocke County2
- Cumberland County2
- Greene County2
- Grundy County2
- Hamilton County2
44 more counties
- Jefferson County2
- Knox County2
- Loudon County2
- McMinn County2
- Marion County2
- Meigs County2
- Monroe County2
- Polk County2
- Rhea County2
- Roane County2
- Sequatchie County2
- Sevier County2
- Unicoi County2
- Carroll County1
- Crockett County1
- Dyer County1
- Lake County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Obion County1
- Weakley County1
- Campbell County1
- Carter County1
- Claiborne County1
- Grainger County1
- Hamblen County1
- Hancock County1
- Hawkins County1
- Johnson County1
- Morgan County1
- Sullivan County1
- Union County1
- Washington County1
- Bedford County1
- Coffee County1
- Franklin County1
- Giles County1
- Lawrence County1
- Lewis County1
- Lincoln County1
- Marshall County1
- Moore County1
- Van Buren County1
- Warren 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.