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Tornado Watches in Tennessee, 2016
15 tornado watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 15
- Busiest month
- November5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- November 30, 20164 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 12:22 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 20 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 2, 3:10 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland and 30 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 13, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fayette, Haywood, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fayette, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 8 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Henderson and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Grundy and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bledsoe, Bradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Marion, Meigs and 3 more | 18 hr |
| May 10, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Clay, Davidson, Dickson and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 29, 3:48 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Hardeman, Hardin, Lawrence, McNairy, Wayne | 7 hr |
| Nov 29, 6:47 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Lewis and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 29, 10:11 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bledsoe, Bradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Marion, Meigs and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 29, 10:28 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 5 hr |
| Nov 30, 2:54 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bledsoe, Bradley, Hamilton, Loudon, McMinn, Marion and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 17, 1:42 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Clay, Crockett and 35 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 17, 8:58 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cheatham, Chester, Davidson, Decatur, Dickson and 25 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fayette County6
- Chester County5
- Hardeman County5
- Hardin County5
- McNairy County5
- Lincoln County5
- Maury County5
- Moore County5
- Wayne County5
- Decatur County4
- Henderson County4
- Humphreys County4
- Lauderdale County4
- Shelby County4
- Tipton County4
- Bedford County4
- Cheatham County4
- Davidson County4
- Dickson County4
- Franklin County4
- Giles County4
- Lawrence County4
- Lewis County4
- Macon County4
- Marshall County4
- Robertson County4
- Rutherford County4
- Sumner County4
- Trousdale County4
- Benton County3
- Carroll County3
- Dyer County3
- Gibson County3
- Haywood County3
- Henry County3
- Houston County3
- Lake County3
- Madison County3
- Montgomery County3
- Obion County3
34 more counties
- Perry County3
- Stewart County3
- Weakley County3
- Clay County3
- Coffee County3
- Grundy County3
- Hickman County3
- Warren County3
- Williamson County3
- Wilson County3
- Bledsoe County3
- Bradley County3
- Hamilton County3
- McMinn County3
- Marion County3
- Meigs County3
- Rhea County3
- Sequatchie County3
- Crockett County2
- Cannon County2
- Jackson County2
- Smith County2
- Polk County2
- Cumberland County1
- DeKalb County1
- Fentress County1
- Overton County1
- Pickett County1
- Putnam County1
- Van Buren County1
- White County1
- Loudon County1
- Monroe County1
- Roane County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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. Rebuilt daily.