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Tornado Watches in Tennessee, 2020
24 tornado watches in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 24
- Busiest month
- March11 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- January 11, 20204 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 11:58 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Haywood, Lake and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 11, 4:17 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Decatur, Hardeman, Hardin and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 11, 6:57 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland and 34 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 11, 12:42 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Coffee, Cumberland and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 5, 4:25 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Hardin, Lawrence and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:21 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dyer, Gibson, Henry, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 2, 11:22 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Cumberland, Davidson, DeKalb and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 12, 11:44 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Dyer and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 12, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dyer, Gibson, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion, Weakley | 7 hr |
| Mar 12, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Pickett and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 19, 9:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Henry, Lake, Lauderdale and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 24, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Bledsoe, Cannon, Chester, Coffee, Cumberland and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 24, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Hamilton, Polk | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 19 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 28, 9:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 9:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 7 hr |
| Apr 8, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett, Davidson and 37 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 12, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Giles, Lawrence, Lincoln, Moore, Wayne | 8 hr |
| Apr 12, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Bradley, McMinn, Monroe, Polk | 6 hr |
| Apr 25, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Clay and 24 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 27, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 8 hr |
| Aug 28, 10:31 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheatham, Davidson, Decatur, Dickson, Giles, Hardin and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 28, 1:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb and 15 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Lawrence, Lincoln and 3 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Giles County8
- Lawrence County8
- Dyer County7
- Gibson County7
- Lake County7
- Lauderdale County7
- Obion County7
- Weakley County7
- Coffee County7
- Cumberland County7
- Wayne County7
- White County7
- Hardin County6
- Henry County6
- Bedford County6
- Cheatham County6
- Clay County6
- Davidson County6
- Dickson County6
- Fentress County6
- Hickman County6
- Houston County6
- Humphreys County6
- Jackson County6
- Lincoln County6
- Macon County6
- Marshall County6
- Maury County6
- Montgomery County6
- Moore County6
- Overton County6
- Pickett County6
- Robertson County6
- Rutherford County6
- Sumner County6
- Trousdale County6
- Van Buren County6
- Williamson County6
- Franklin County6
- Decatur County5
47 more counties
- McNairy County5
- Cannon County5
- DeKalb County5
- Grundy County5
- Lewis County5
- Perry County5
- Putnam County5
- Smith County5
- Stewart County5
- Warren County5
- Wilson County5
- Crockett County4
- Shelby County4
- Tipton County4
- Benton County4
- Carroll County4
- Chester County4
- Hardeman County4
- Henderson County4
- Polk County4
- Fayette County3
- Haywood County3
- Madison County3
- Bledsoe County3
- Blount County3
- Bradley County3
- McMinn County3
- Monroe County3
- Anderson County2
- Hamilton County2
- Knox County2
- Loudon County2
- Marion County2
- Meigs County2
- Morgan County2
- Rhea County2
- Roane County2
- Sequatchie County2
- Sevier County2
- Campbell County1
- Claiborne County1
- Cocke County1
- Grainger County1
- Hamblen County1
- Jefferson County1
- Scott County1
- Union County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.