Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Watches / 2020
Tornado Watches in Tennessee, March 2020
11 tornado watches in March 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 March 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- March 12, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dyer County5
- Gibson County5
- Lake County5
- Obion County5
- Weakley County5
- Henry County4
- Lauderdale County4
- Cannon County3
- Cheatham County3
- Clay County3
- Cumberland County3
- Davidson County3
- DeKalb County3
- Dickson County3
- Fentress County3
- Hickman County3
- Houston County3
- Humphreys County3
- Jackson County3
- Macon County3
- Montgomery County3
- Overton County3
- Pickett County3
- Robertson County3
- Rutherford County3
- Stewart County3
- Sumner County3
- Trousdale County3
- White County3
- Williamson County3
- Putnam County2
- Smith County2
- Wilson County2
- Benton County2
- Carroll County2
- Crockett County2
- Bedford County2
- Chester County2
- Coffee County2
- Decatur County2
28 more counties
- Franklin County2
- Giles County2
- Grundy County2
- Hardeman County2
- Hardin County2
- Henderson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lewis County2
- Lincoln County2
- McNairy County2
- Marshall County2
- Maury County2
- Moore County2
- Perry County2
- Van Buren County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Bledsoe County1
- Marion County1
- Sequatchie County1
- Bradley County1
- Hamilton County1
- Polk County1
- Fayette County1
- Haywood County1
- Madison County1
- Shelby County1
- Tipton County1
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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.