Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Tennessee, January 2012
4 tornado watches in January 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 January 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- January 21, 20122 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20, 10:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 30 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 21, 4:55 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Franklin, Hamilton, Lincoln, McMinn, Marion and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 22, 5:16 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman, Haywood and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 22, 10:59 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 44 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fayette County3
- Franklin County3
- Hardeman County3
- Haywood County3
- Lincoln County3
- Madison County3
- Moore County3
- Bedford County2
- Benton County2
- Cannon County2
- Carroll County2
- Cheatham County2
- Chester County2
- Coffee County2
- Davidson County2
- Decatur County2
- DeKalb County2
- Dickson County2
- Giles County2
- Grundy County2
- Hardin County2
- Henderson County2
- Hickman County2
- Humphreys County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lewis County2
- McNairy County2
- Marshall County2
- Maury County2
- Perry County2
- Rutherford County2
- Shelby County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Williamson County2
- Wilson County2
- Crockett County2
- Gibson County2
- Weakley County2
- Bradley County1
24 more counties
- Hamilton County1
- McMinn County1
- Marion County1
- Meigs County1
- Monroe County1
- Polk County1
- Sequatchie County1
- Dyer County1
- Lake County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Obion County1
- Tipton County1
- Clay County1
- Henry County1
- Houston County1
- Jackson County1
- Macon County1
- Montgomery County1
- Putnam County1
- Robertson County1
- Smith County1
- Stewart County1
- Sumner County1
- Trousdale 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.