Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Tennessee, February 2012
5 tornado watches in February 2012. 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 February 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- February 29, 20125 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 3:20 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Henry and 6 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 29, 4:39 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Cheatham, Clay, Davidson, Dickson, Fentress and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 29, 11:31 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Benton, Bledsoe, Campbell, Cannon and 68 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 29, 1:48 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 7 hr |
| Feb 29, 5:37 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Bradley, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamilton and 10 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Carroll County2
- Crockett County2
- Gibson County2
- Haywood County2
- Henry County2
- Lauderdale County2
- Madison County2
- Tipton County2
- Weakley County2
- Benton County2
- Cheatham County2
- Clay County2
- Davidson County2
- Dickson County2
- Fentress County2
- Houston County2
- Humphreys County2
- Jackson County2
- Macon County2
- Montgomery County2
- Overton County2
- Pickett County2
- Putnam County2
- Robertson County2
- Smith County2
- Stewart County2
- Sumner County2
- Trousdale County2
- Wilson County2
- Loudon County2
- Dyer County1
- Lake County1
- Obion County1
- Anderson County1
- Bedford County1
- Bledsoe County1
- Campbell County1
- Cannon County1
- Chester County1
- Claiborne County1
55 more counties
- Coffee County1
- Cumberland County1
- Decatur County1
- DeKalb County1
- Fayette County1
- Giles County1
- Grainger County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamblen County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardeman County1
- Hardin County1
- Hawkins County1
- Henderson County1
- Hickman County1
- Jefferson County1
- Knox County1
- Lawrence County1
- Lewis County1
- McNairy County1
- Marshall County1
- Maury County1
- Morgan County1
- Perry County1
- Rhea County1
- Roane County1
- Rutherford County1
- Scott County1
- Sequatchie County1
- Shelby County1
- Sullivan County1
- Union County1
- Van Buren County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- White County1
- Williamson County1
- Franklin County1
- Lincoln County1
- Moore County1
- Blount County1
- Bradley County1
- Carter County1
- Cocke County1
- Greene County1
- Hamilton County1
- Johnson County1
- McMinn County1
- Marion County1
- Meigs County1
- Monroe County1
- Polk County1
- Sevier County1
- Unicoi County1
- Washington 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.