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Tornado Watches in Tennessee, 2015
9 tornado watches in 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest month
- December4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- December 23, 20153 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 12:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett, Davidson and 30 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 3, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell and 37 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 17, 3:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Shelby, Tipton | 4 hr |
| Dec 23, 9:13 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Dec 23, 11:57 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman and 8 more | 9 hr |
| Dec 23, 4:49 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Coffee, Davidson, Dickson and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 23, 10:33 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Bledsoe, Cannon, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland and 24 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Tipton County5
- Chester County4
- Crockett County4
- Dyer County4
- Gibson County4
- Haywood County4
- Lake County4
- Lauderdale County4
- Madison County4
- Obion County4
- Shelby County4
- Benton County3
- Carroll County3
- Decatur County3
- Giles County3
- Henderson County3
- Henry County3
- Rutherford County3
- Weakley County3
- Bedford County3
- Cannon County3
- Coffee County3
- Marshall County3
- Fayette County3
- Hardeman County3
- McNairy County3
- Cheatham County2
- Davidson County2
- Dickson County2
- Hickman County2
- Houston County2
- Humphreys County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lewis County2
- Macon County2
- Maury County2
- Montgomery County2
- Perry County2
- Robertson County2
- Stewart County2
48 more counties
- Sumner County2
- Trousdale County2
- Williamson County2
- Wilson County2
- Bledsoe County2
- Clay County2
- Cumberland County2
- DeKalb County2
- Fentress County2
- Grundy County2
- Hamilton County2
- Jackson County2
- Marion County2
- Meigs County2
- Morgan County2
- Overton County2
- Pickett County2
- Putnam County2
- Rhea County2
- Roane County2
- Scott County2
- Sequatchie County2
- Smith County2
- Van Buren County2
- Warren County2
- White County2
- Hardin County2
- Franklin County2
- Lincoln County2
- Moore County2
- Anderson County1
- Blount County1
- Bradley County1
- Campbell County1
- Claiborne County1
- Grainger County1
- Hamblen County1
- Hancock County1
- Hawkins County1
- Jefferson County1
- Knox County1
- Loudon County1
- McMinn County1
- Monroe County1
- Polk County1
- Sevier County1
- Union County1
- Wayne County1
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.