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Tornado Watches in Tennessee, 2024

21 tornado watches in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
21
Busiest month
May13 tornado watches
Busiest day
May 8, 20244 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 12, 3:57 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCFayette, Hardeman, McNairy, Shelby7 hr
Feb 28, 2:56 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCMacon, Montgomery, Robertson, Stewart, Sumner, Trousdale5 hr
Mar 14, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDyer, Henry, Lake, Obion, Weakley7 hr
Apr 2, 9:50 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 41 more5 hr
Apr 2, 3:08 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 45 more6 hr
Apr 2, 5:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Claiborne and 25 more7 hr
May 8, 12:56 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCDyer, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion, Shelby, Tipton5 hr
May 8, 1:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland and 32 more10 hr
May 8, 2:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 9 more5 hr
May 8, 4:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Franklin and 15 more7 hr
May 8, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 53 more7 hr
May 8, 10:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBledsoe, Bradley, Franklin, Hamilton, Lincoln, McMinn and 7 more5 hr
May 9, 3:02 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Cannon, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Grundy and 14 more7 hr
May 9, 4:45 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBradley, Hamilton, Polk9 hr
May 26, 2:35 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCHenry, Lake, Obion, Weakley7 hr
May 26, 8:59 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Blount, Campbell, Cannon, Cheatham, Claiborne and 33 more8 hr
May 26, 4:01 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCBenton, Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Henry and 4 more7 hr
May 26, 9:43 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell and 70 more7 hr
May 26, 10:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson and 10 more5 hr
Jul 9, 2:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCannon, Cheatham, Clay, Davidson, DeKalb, Dickson and 18 more10 hr
Dec 28, 8:09 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCFranklin, Lincoln, Moore7 hr

By county

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

53 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 8, 20244tornado watches
  2. May 9, 20244tornado watches
  3. April 2, 20243tornado watches
  4. May 26, 20243tornado watches
  5. May 27, 20242tornado watches
  6. January 12, 20241tornado watches
  7. February 28, 20241tornado watches
  8. March 14, 20241tornado watches
  9. July 9, 20241tornado watches
  10. December 29, 20241tornado watches

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.