Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Tennessee, May 2008
8 tornado watches in May 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 2, 20083 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 2, 8:49 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 1:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette and 14 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee and 27 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 12:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bledsoe, Bradley, Franklin, Hamilton, Lincoln, McMinn and 7 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson and 9 more | 10 hr |
| May 10, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Hickman and 8 more | 7 hr |
| May 10, 9:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Hamilton, Marion, Sequatchie | 7 hr |
| May 11, 8:52 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne and 18 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Crockett County3
- Dyer County3
- Gibson County3
- Lauderdale County3
- Lincoln County3
- Moore County3
- Bradley County3
- Lake County2
- Obion County2
- Weakley County2
- Chester County2
- Decatur County2
- Fayette County2
- Hardeman County2
- Hardin County2
- Haywood County2
- Henderson County2
- McNairy County2
- Madison County2
- Shelby County2
- Tipton County2
- Bedford County2
- Coffee County2
- Giles County2
- Hickman County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lewis County2
- Marshall County2
- Maury County2
- Perry County2
- Wayne County2
- Franklin County2
- Hamilton County2
- McMinn County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Polk County2
- Sequatchie County2
- Carroll County1
- Henry County1
45 more counties
- Benton County1
- Cannon County1
- Cheatham County1
- Clay County1
- Davidson County1
- DeKalb County1
- Dickson County1
- Houston County1
- Humphreys County1
- Jackson County1
- Macon County1
- Montgomery County1
- Putnam County1
- Robertson County1
- Rutherford County1
- Smith County1
- Stewart County1
- Sumner County1
- Trousdale County1
- Williamson County1
- Wilson County1
- Bledsoe County1
- Meigs County1
- Rhea County1
- Grundy County1
- Anderson County1
- Blount County1
- Campbell County1
- Carter County1
- Claiborne County1
- Cocke County1
- Grainger County1
- Greene County1
- Hamblen County1
- Hancock County1
- Hawkins County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Knox County1
- Loudon County1
- Sevier County1
- Sullivan County1
- Unicoi County1
- Union 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.