Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Watches / 2003

Tornado Watches in Tennessee, May 2003

19 tornado watches in May 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
19
Busiest day
May 5, 20037 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 6:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 20 more6 hr
May 4, 11:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Davidson and 30 more5 hr
May 5, 1:20 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 19 more6 hr
May 5, 3:15 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Claiborne and 25 more6 hr
May 5, 4:55 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 50 more6 hr
May 5, 8:50 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Grundy, Hamilton, Loudon and 8 more6 hr
May 5, 9:35 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 48 more5 hr
May 5, 2:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 52 more7 hr
May 6, 1:50 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Carroll, Chester, Coffee, Crockett, Decatur and 27 more6 hr
May 6, 7:40 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Bledsoe, Cannon, Chester, Coffee, Decatur and 21 more5 hr
May 6, 11:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 50 more6 hr
May 7, 4:55 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett, Davidson and 31 more6 hr
May 7, 7:35 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Bledsoe, Cannon, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb and 14 more5 hr
May 8, 10:25 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett and 33 more6 hr
May 10, 8:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDyer, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion, Shelby, Tipton5 hr
May 10, 11:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett, Davidson and 30 more6 hr
May 16, 2:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCrockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman, Haywood and 7 more7 hr
May 16, 9:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChester, Crockett, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin and 7 more6 hr
May 17, 11:50 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell and 41 more5 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

47 more counties

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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.