Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Watches / 2024
Tornado Watches in Tennessee, May 2024
13 tornado watches in May 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 May 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest day
- May 8, 20244 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 12:56 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dyer, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion, Shelby, Tipton | 5 hr |
| May 8, 1:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland and 32 more | 10 hr |
| May 8, 2:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Franklin and 15 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 53 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 10:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bledsoe, Bradley, Franklin, Hamilton, Lincoln, McMinn and 7 more | 5 hr |
| May 9, 3:02 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Grundy and 14 more | 7 hr |
| May 9, 4:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Hamilton, Polk | 9 hr |
| May 26, 2:35 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Henry, Lake, Obion, Weakley | 7 hr |
| May 26, 8:59 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Cannon, Cheatham, Claiborne and 33 more | 8 hr |
| May 26, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Henry and 4 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell and 70 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 10:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson and 10 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lake County6
- Obion County6
- Dyer County5
- Lauderdale County5
- Cannon County5
- Rutherford County5
- Warren County5
- Williamson County5
- Henry County5
- Weakley County5
- Tipton County4
- Bedford County4
- Cheatham County4
- Clay County4
- Coffee County4
- Cumberland County4
- Davidson County4
- DeKalb County4
- Dickson County4
- Fentress County4
- Giles County4
- Grundy County4
- Hickman County4
- Houston County4
- Humphreys County4
- Jackson County4
- Lawrence County4
- Lewis County4
- Macon County4
- Marshall County4
- Maury County4
- Montgomery County4
- Overton County4
- Perry County4
- Pickett County4
- Putnam County4
- Robertson County4
- Smith County4
- Stewart County4
- Sumner County4
48 more counties
- Trousdale County4
- Van Buren County4
- Wayne County4
- White County4
- Wilson County4
- Benton County4
- Carroll County4
- Crockett County4
- Gibson County4
- Haywood County4
- Madison County4
- Bradley County4
- Franklin County4
- Hamilton County4
- Lincoln County4
- Marion County4
- Moore County4
- Polk County4
- Sequatchie County4
- Shelby County3
- Chester County3
- Decatur County3
- Henderson County3
- Anderson County3
- Bledsoe County3
- Blount County3
- Campbell County3
- Knox County3
- Loudon County3
- McMinn County3
- Meigs County3
- Monroe County3
- Morgan County3
- Rhea County3
- Roane County3
- Scott County3
- Hardeman County3
- Hardin County3
- McNairy County3
- Fayette County2
- Claiborne County2
- Union County2
- Grainger County1
- Hamblen County1
- Hancock County1
- Hawkins County1
- Jefferson County1
- Sevier 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.