Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Watches / 2011
Tornado Watches in Tennessee, May 2011
3 tornado watches in May 2011. 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 1, 20111 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 1, 12:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Fayette, Gibson and 9 more | 8 hr |
| May 25, 12:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette and 14 more | 8 hr |
| May 25, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 50 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Carroll County3
- Chester County3
- Crockett County3
- Decatur County3
- Fayette County3
- Gibson County3
- Hardeman County3
- Hardin County3
- Haywood County3
- Henderson County3
- McNairy County3
- Madison County3
- Lauderdale County2
- Shelby County2
- Tipton County2
- Henry County2
- Weakley County2
- Dyer County1
- Lake County1
- Obion County1
- Bedford County1
- Benton County1
- Cannon County1
- Cheatham County1
- Clay County1
- Coffee County1
- Cumberland County1
- Davidson County1
- DeKalb County1
- Dickson County1
- Fentress County1
- Franklin County1
- Giles County1
- Grundy County1
- Hickman County1
- Houston County1
- Humphreys County1
- Jackson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Lewis County1
22 more counties
- Lincoln County1
- Macon County1
- Marshall County1
- Maury County1
- Montgomery County1
- Moore County1
- Overton County1
- Perry County1
- Pickett County1
- Putnam County1
- Robertson County1
- Rutherford County1
- Smith County1
- Stewart County1
- Sumner County1
- Trousdale County1
- Van Buren County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- White County1
- Williamson County1
- Wilson 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.