Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Watches / 2017
Tornado Watches in Tennessee, May 2017
3 tornado watches in May 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 May 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 24, 20172 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Polk County2
- Anderson County1
- Bledsoe County1
- Blount County1
- Bradley County1
- Campbell County1
- Claiborne County1
- Clay County1
- Cocke County1
- Cumberland County1
- Fentress County1
- Grainger County1
- Greene County1
- Hamblen County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hawkins County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Knox County1
- Loudon County1
- McMinn County1
- Meigs County1
- Monroe County1
- Morgan County1
- Overton County1
- Pickett County1
- Putnam County1
- Rhea County1
- Roane County1
- Scott County1
- Sequatchie County1
- Sevier County1
- Union County1
- Van Buren County1
- White County1
- Chester County1
- Crockett County1
- Decatur County1
- Fayette 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.