Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Watches / 2004
Tornado Watches in Tennessee, May 2004
6 tornado watches in May 2004. 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 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 31, 20043 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 27, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Pickett | 6 hr |
| May 30, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more | 8 hr |
| May 30, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hawkins, Johnson, Sullivan and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 30, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Bledsoe, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee and 39 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 10:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Hardeman, Henderson, McNairy | 5 hr |
| May 31, 12:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne and 23 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pickett County2
- Chester County2
- Decatur County2
- Hardeman County2
- Henderson County2
- McNairy County2
- Carter County2
- Cocke County2
- Greene County2
- Hawkins County2
- Johnson County2
- Sullivan County2
- Unicoi County2
- Washington County2
- Benton County1
- Carroll County1
- Crockett County1
- Dyer County1
- Fayette County1
- Gibson County1
- Haywood County1
- Henry County1
- Lake County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Madison County1
- Obion County1
- Shelby County1
- Stewart County1
- Tipton County1
- Weakley County1
- Bedford County1
- Bledsoe County1
- Cannon County1
- Cheatham County1
- Clay County1
- Coffee County1
- Cumberland County1
- Davidson County1
- DeKalb County1
- Dickson County1
54 more counties
- Fentress County1
- Franklin County1
- Giles County1
- Grundy County1
- Hardin County1
- Hickman County1
- Houston County1
- Humphreys County1
- Jackson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Lewis County1
- Lincoln County1
- Macon County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Maury County1
- Montgomery County1
- Moore County1
- Overton County1
- Perry County1
- Putnam County1
- Robertson County1
- Rutherford County1
- Sequatchie County1
- Smith County1
- Sumner County1
- Trousdale County1
- Van Buren County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- White County1
- Williamson County1
- Wilson County1
- Anderson County1
- Blount County1
- Bradley County1
- Campbell County1
- Claiborne County1
- Grainger County1
- Hamblen County1
- Hancock County1
- Jefferson County1
- Knox County1
- Loudon County1
- McMinn County1
- Meigs County1
- Monroe County1
- Morgan County1
- Polk County1
- Rhea County1
- Roane County1
- Scott County1
- Sevier County1
- Union 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.