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Tornado Watches in Tennessee, March 2021
10 tornado watches in March 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- March 17, 20212 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 17, 5:53 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, McNairy, Shelby | 7 hr |
| Mar 17, 12:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 17, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, McNairy | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 11:26 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Giles, Lawrence, Lincoln, Moore, Wayne | 9 hr |
| Mar 25, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 36 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 25, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Giles, Lawrence, Lincoln, Moore, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Bradley, Campbell, Cumberland, Fentress and 14 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Carroll, Chester, Coffee, Crockett and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 27, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 27, 11:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Hickman and 6 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hardin County6
- McNairy County6
- Fayette County5
- Hardeman County5
- Shelby County4
- Chester County4
- Decatur County4
- Henderson County4
- Madison County4
- Franklin County4
- Giles County4
- Lawrence County4
- Lincoln County4
- Moore County4
- Wayne County4
- Benton County3
- Carroll County3
- Crockett County3
- Gibson County3
- Haywood County3
- Lauderdale County3
- Tipton County3
- Bedford County3
- Coffee County3
- Grundy County3
- Hickman County3
- Lewis County3
- Marshall County3
- Maury County3
- Perry County3
- Henry County2
- Weakley County2
- Dyer County1
- Cannon County1
- Cheatham County1
- Clay County1
- Davidson County1
- DeKalb County1
- Dickson County1
- Houston County1
36 more counties
- Humphreys County1
- Jackson County1
- Macon County1
- Montgomery County1
- Putnam County1
- Robertson County1
- Rutherford County1
- Smith County1
- Stewart County1
- Sumner County1
- Trousdale County1
- Van Buren County1
- Warren County1
- White County1
- Williamson County1
- Wilson County1
- Anderson County1
- Bledsoe County1
- Bradley County1
- Campbell County1
- Cumberland County1
- Fentress County1
- Hamilton County1
- Knox County1
- Loudon County1
- McMinn County1
- Marion County1
- Meigs County1
- Morgan County1
- Overton County1
- Pickett County1
- Rhea County1
- Roane County1
- Scott County1
- Sequatchie County1
- Union 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.