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Tornado Watches in Tennessee, 2018
13 tornado watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest month
- November3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- November 6, 20183 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 24, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 19 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 24, 8:29 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Davidson, DeKalb, Dickson and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Hardin and 8 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cannon, Cheatham, Davidson, DeKalb, Dickson, Hickman and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 3, 1:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Henry, Lake and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 13, 10:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman and 10 more | 10 hr |
| Jun 23, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Giles, Lawrence, Lincoln, Moore, Wayne | 4 hr |
| Jul 20, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 56 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 20, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Claiborne and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 5, 7:04 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 37 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 5, 10:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bledsoe, Clay, Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress, Franklin and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 6, 2:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Knox, Loudon and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 31, 11:47 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Davidson and 27 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hardin County6
- McNairy County6
- Montgomery County6
- Chester County5
- Crockett County5
- Gibson County5
- Hardeman County5
- Haywood County5
- Henry County5
- Madison County5
- Shelby County5
- Tipton County5
- Weakley County5
- Cheatham County5
- Davidson County5
- Dickson County5
- Hickman County5
- Lewis County5
- Maury County5
- Robertson County5
- Rutherford County5
- Sumner County5
- Williamson County5
- Wilson County5
- Giles County5
- Lawrence County5
- Lincoln County5
- Moore County5
- Wayne County5
- Benton County4
- Carroll County4
- Decatur County4
- Dyer County4
- Fayette County4
- Henderson County4
- Houston County4
- Humphreys County4
- Lake County4
- Lauderdale County4
- Obion County4
50 more counties
- Stewart County4
- Cannon County4
- DeKalb County4
- Jackson County4
- Macon County4
- Perry County4
- Putnam County4
- Smith County4
- Trousdale County4
- Bedford County4
- Marshall County4
- Clay County3
- Overton County3
- Pickett County3
- Coffee County3
- Franklin County3
- Grundy County3
- Van Buren County3
- Warren County3
- White County3
- Cumberland County2
- Fentress County2
- Anderson County2
- Bledsoe County2
- Blount County2
- Bradley County2
- Campbell County2
- Hamilton 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
- Claiborne County1
- Cocke County1
- Grainger County1
- Greene County1
- Hamblen County1
- Hancock County1
- Hawkins County1
- Jefferson County1
- Union 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.