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Tornado Watches in Tennessee, 2013
16 tornado watches in 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 16
- Busiest month
- January4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- January 30, 20133 tornado watches
Over time
By month
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 29, 5:37 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Haywood, Lake and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 29, 10:07 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Davidson, Decatur and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 30, 1:46 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb and 19 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 30, 4:51 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 10, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 11, 11:56 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 7 hr |
| Apr 11, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 30 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood and 5 more | 10 hr |
| May 21, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 10, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee and 33 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 31, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Clay, Crockett, Cumberland and 37 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 17, 10:43 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Henry, Lake and 3 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 17, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 21, 12:01 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette and 14 more | 8 hr |
| Dec 21, 5:46 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett, Davidson and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 21, 8:16 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb and 20 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Crockett County7
- Gibson County7
- Haywood County7
- Tipton County7
- Weakley County7
- Carroll County7
- Henderson County7
- Henry County7
- Madison County7
- Dyer County6
- Fayette County6
- Lake County6
- Lauderdale County6
- Obion County6
- Shelby County6
- Chester County6
- Decatur County6
- Hardeman County6
- Benton County5
- Cheatham County5
- Davidson County5
- Dickson County5
- Hardin County5
- Humphreys County5
- McNairy County5
- Robertson County5
- Sumner County5
- Cumberland County5
- Macon County5
- Hickman County4
- Houston County4
- Lewis County4
- Maury County4
- Montgomery County4
- Perry County4
- Stewart County4
- Williamson County4
- Clay County4
- DeKalb County4
- Fentress County4
55 more counties
- Franklin County4
- Grundy County4
- Jackson County4
- Lincoln County4
- Moore County4
- Overton County4
- Pickett County4
- Putnam County4
- Rutherford County4
- Smith County4
- Trousdale County4
- Van Buren County4
- White County4
- Wilson County4
- Lawrence County3
- Wayne County3
- Bedford County3
- Cannon County3
- Coffee County3
- Giles County3
- Marshall County3
- Warren County3
- Anderson County2
- Bledsoe County2
- Blount County2
- Bradley County2
- Campbell County2
- Carter County2
- Claiborne County2
- Cocke County2
- Grainger County2
- Greene County2
- Hamblen County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hancock County2
- Hawkins County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Knox County2
- Loudon County2
- McMinn County2
- Marion County2
- Meigs County2
- Monroe County2
- Morgan County2
- Polk County2
- Rhea County2
- Roane County2
- Scott County2
- Sequatchie County2
- Sevier County2
- Sullivan County2
- Unicoi County2
- Union County2
- Washington County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.