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Tornado Watches in Tennessee, 2022
17 tornado watches in 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 17
- Busiest month
- January4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- January 1, 20223 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 11:57 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Clay, Crockett and 29 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 1, 10:50 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Clay and 30 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 1, 12:56 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Campbell, Cannon, Claiborne, Coffee and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 1, 6:53 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Franklin, Grainger and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 17, 10:49 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crockett, Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, Lauderdale, Madison and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 17, 1:46 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Decatur, Giles, Hardin, Henderson, Hickman and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 22, 3:52 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crockett, Dickson, Dyer, Fayette and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 7, 1:07 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Dyer, Fayette and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 7, 1:52 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Montgomery, Stewart | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 30, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Coffee, Davidson, Dickson and 21 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Claiborne and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 13, 5:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cheatham, Clay, Davidson, Dickson, Giles and 20 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 15, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fayette, Haywood, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 4 hr |
| May 6, 12:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 25, 1:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Giles, Lawrence, Wayne | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Haywood County8
- Henderson County7
- Lauderdale County7
- Madison County7
- Tipton County7
- Fayette County7
- Benton County6
- Carroll County6
- Chester County6
- Crockett County6
- Montgomery County6
- Shelby County6
- Decatur County5
- Dickson County5
- Dyer County5
- Gibson County5
- Henry County5
- Houston County5
- Humphreys County5
- Lake County5
- Obion County5
- Perry County5
- Stewart County5
- Weakley County5
- Giles County5
- Hardeman County5
- Lawrence County5
- Wayne County5
- Cheatham County4
- Davidson County4
- Robertson County4
- Sumner County4
- Trousdale County4
- Wilson County4
- Hardin County4
- Hickman County4
- Lewis County4
- McNairy County4
- Marshall County4
- Maury County4
55 more counties
- Anderson County4
- Bledsoe County4
- Hamilton County4
- Lincoln County4
- Meigs County4
- Morgan County4
- Rhea County4
- Roane County4
- Union County4
- Clay County3
- Fentress County3
- Jackson County3
- Macon County3
- Pickett County3
- Smith County3
- Bedford County3
- Rutherford County3
- Williamson County3
- Campbell County3
- Claiborne County3
- Franklin County3
- Hancock County3
- Marion County3
- Moore County3
- Scott County3
- Sequatchie County3
- Blount County3
- Bradley County3
- Grainger County3
- Jefferson County3
- Knox County3
- Loudon County3
- McMinn County3
- Monroe County3
- Polk County3
- Sevier County3
- Overton County2
- Cannon County2
- Coffee County2
- Cumberland County2
- Hamblen County2
- Hawkins County2
- DeKalb County1
- Grundy County1
- Putnam County1
- Van Buren County1
- Warren County1
- White County1
- Carter County1
- Cocke County1
- Greene County1
- Johnson County1
- Sullivan County1
- Unicoi County1
- Washington County1
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.