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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 10, 11:58 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCrockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Haywood, Lake and 4 more7 hr
Jan 11, 4:17 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Chester, Decatur, Hardeman, Hardin and 5 more6 hr
Jan 11, 6:57 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland and 34 more7 hr
Jan 11, 12:42 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Coffee, Cumberland and 18 more7 hr
Feb 5, 4:25 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Hardin, Lawrence and 4 more5 hr
Mar 2, 5:21 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCDyer, Gibson, Henry, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion and 1 more8 hr
Mar 2, 11:22 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCannon, Cheatham, Clay, Cumberland, Davidson, DeKalb and 20 more7 hr
Mar 12, 11:44 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Dyer and 11 more6 hr
Mar 12, 3:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDyer, Gibson, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion, Weakley7 hr
Mar 12, 5:09 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Pickett and 1 more5 hr
Mar 19, 9:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCrockett, Dyer, Gibson, Henry, Lake, Lauderdale and 2 more6 hr
Mar 24, 3:06 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Bledsoe, Cannon, Chester, Coffee, Cumberland and 25 more7 hr
Mar 24, 7:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBradley, Hamilton, Polk3 hr
Mar 28, 6:34 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 19 more7 hr
Mar 28, 9:34 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland and 28 more6 hr
Mar 28, 9:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFranklin, Lincoln, Moore7 hr
Apr 8, 7:04 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett, Davidson and 37 more7 hr
Apr 12, 3:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFranklin, Giles, Lawrence, Lincoln, Moore, Wayne8 hr
Apr 12, 7:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlount, Bradley, McMinn, Monroe, Polk6 hr
Apr 25, 5:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Clay and 24 more4 hr
Aug 27, 3:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCLauderdale, Shelby, Tipton8 hr
Aug 28, 10:31 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheatham, Davidson, Decatur, Dickson, Giles, Hardin and 13 more5 hr
Aug 28, 1:04 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Cannon, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb and 15 more3 hr
Aug 28, 3:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Lawrence, Lincoln and 3 more4 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

47 more counties

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.