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Tornado Watches in Tennessee, 2017
11 tornado watches in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest month
- March4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 1, 20174 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 28, 8:29 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Henry and 6 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:03 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:57 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland and 32 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:48 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Franklin, Hamilton, Knox and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 5, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell and 49 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 30, 1:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Bledsoe, Bradley, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay and 32 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 9:04 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Polk | 11 hr |
| May 24, 12:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Claiborne and 30 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 23, 12:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell and 41 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 31, 11:13 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood and 4 more | 11 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County5
- Cumberland County5
- Fentress County5
- Jackson County5
- Overton County5
- Pickett County5
- Putnam County5
- Van Buren County5
- White County5
- Bledsoe County5
- Bradley County5
- Hamilton County5
- Meigs County5
- Polk County5
- Rhea County5
- Sequatchie County5
- Haywood County4
- Madison County4
- Bedford County4
- Cannon County4
- Coffee County4
- DeKalb County4
- Giles County4
- Grundy County4
- Macon County4
- Marshall County4
- Rutherford County4
- Smith County4
- Trousdale County4
- Warren County4
- Wilson County4
- Blount County4
- Franklin County4
- Knox County4
- Lincoln County4
- Loudon County4
- McMinn County4
- Marion County4
- Monroe County4
- Moore County4
50 more counties
- Roane County4
- Crockett County3
- Lauderdale County3
- Tipton County3
- Chester County3
- Decatur County3
- Fayette County3
- Hardeman County3
- Hardin County3
- Henderson County3
- McNairy County3
- Shelby County3
- Cheatham County3
- Davidson County3
- Lawrence County3
- Maury County3
- Robertson County3
- Sumner County3
- Williamson County3
- Anderson County3
- Campbell County3
- Morgan County3
- Scott County3
- Union County3
- Carroll County2
- Dyer County2
- Gibson County2
- Henry County2
- Lake County2
- Obion County2
- Weakley County2
- Dickson County2
- Hickman County2
- Lewis County2
- Wayne County2
- Sevier County2
- Claiborne County2
- Grainger County2
- Benton County1
- Houston County1
- Humphreys County1
- Montgomery County1
- Perry County1
- Stewart County1
- Cocke County1
- Greene County1
- Hamblen County1
- Hancock County1
- Hawkins County1
- Jefferson 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.