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Tornado Watches in Tennessee, 2019
12 tornado watches in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest month
- March4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- February 23, 20192 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 23, 12:26 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Fayette and 12 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 23, 3:01 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Giles, Hickman and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:32 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 9, 2:16 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Giles, Hickman and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 14, 5:28 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 14, 12:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Davidson and 26 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 14, 1:04 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Grundy and 9 more | 9 hr |
| May 2, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Henry and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 21, 3:06 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 31, 11:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carter, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington | 4 hr |
| Dec 16, 2:22 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hardin, McNairy | 8 hr |
| Dec 16, 3:47 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Giles, Lawrence, Lincoln, Moore, Wayne | 10 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County6
- Carroll County6
- Hardin County6
- Henry County6
- McNairy County6
- Weakley County6
- Chester County5
- Crockett County5
- Decatur County5
- Gibson County5
- Henderson County5
- Lauderdale County5
- Giles County5
- Lawrence County5
- Lincoln County5
- Moore County5
- Wayne County5
- Fayette County4
- Hardeman County4
- Haywood County4
- Madison County4
- Shelby County4
- Tipton County4
- Bedford County4
- Marshall County4
- Dyer County4
- Lake County4
- Obion County4
- Cheatham County3
- Davidson County3
- Dickson County3
- Hickman County3
- Houston County3
- Humphreys County3
- Lewis County3
- Maury County3
- Montgomery County3
- Perry County3
- Rutherford County3
- Stewart County3
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.