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Tornado Watches in Tennessee, May 2025
6 tornado watches in May 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 20, 20254 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 16, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more | 9 hr |
| May 16, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell and 68 more | 6 hr |
| May 20, 12:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Cumberland, Fentress, Grainger and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 20, 1:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more | 8 hr |
| May 20, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Bledsoe, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee and 39 more | 8 hr |
| May 20, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Claiborne and 19 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Anderson County3
- Bledsoe County3
- Campbell County3
- Claiborne County3
- Cumberland County3
- Fentress County3
- Grainger County3
- Hamblen County3
- Hamilton County3
- Hancock County3
- Marion County3
- Morgan County3
- Overton County3
- Pickett County3
- Scott County3
- Sequatchie County3
- Union County3
- Benton County2
- Carroll County2
- Chester County2
- Crockett County2
- Decatur County2
- Dyer County2
- Fayette County2
- Gibson County2
- Hardeman County2
- Hardin County2
- Haywood County2
- Henderson County2
- Henry County2
- Lake County2
- Lauderdale County2
- McNairy County2
- Madison County2
- Obion County2
- Shelby County2
- Tipton County2
- Weakley County2
- Bedford County2
- Blount County2
55 more counties
- Bradley County2
- Cannon County2
- Cheatham County2
- Clay County2
- Coffee County2
- Davidson County2
- DeKalb County2
- Dickson County2
- Franklin County2
- Giles County2
- Grundy County2
- Hawkins County2
- Hickman County2
- Houston County2
- Humphreys County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Knox County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lewis County2
- Lincoln County2
- Loudon County2
- McMinn County2
- Macon County2
- Marshall County2
- Maury County2
- Meigs County2
- Monroe County2
- Montgomery County2
- Moore County2
- Perry County2
- Polk County2
- Putnam County2
- Rhea County2
- Roane County2
- Robertson County2
- Rutherford County2
- Sevier County2
- Smith County2
- Stewart County2
- Sullivan County2
- Sumner County2
- Trousdale County2
- Van Buren County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- White County2
- Williamson County2
- Wilson County2
- Carter County1
- Cocke County1
- Greene County1
- Johnson County1
- Unicoi County1
- Washington 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.