Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Watches / 2020
Tornado Watches in Tennessee, August 2020
4 tornado watches in August 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 August 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- August 28, 20203 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 County2
- Lawrence County2
- Marshall County2
- Maury County2
- Bedford County2
- Coffee County2
- Lauderdale County1
- Shelby County1
- Tipton County1
- Cheatham County1
- Davidson County1
- Decatur County1
- Dickson County1
- Hardin County1
- Hickman County1
- Houston County1
- Humphreys County1
- Lewis County1
- McNairy County1
- Montgomery County1
- Perry County1
- Robertson County1
- Wayne County1
- Williamson County1
- Cannon County1
- Clay County1
- Cumberland County1
- DeKalb County1
- Fentress County1
- Grundy County1
- Jackson County1
- Macon County1
- Overton County1
- Pickett County1
- Putnam County1
- Rutherford County1
- Smith County1
- Sumner County1
- Trousdale County1
- Van Buren 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.