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Tornado Watch 365

June 21, 202638 counties in Indiana

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 21, 2026, 5:43 PM EDT for 38 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 2026, 5:43 PM EDT (21:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2026, 2:00 AM EDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 38 counties

Bartholomew County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clark County, IN, Clay County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes: 40%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 30%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 10%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 20%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 70%

Warnings issued inside it

83 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IND	Clay, Greene, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion, Vigo	59 min
Jun 21, 6:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Parke, Vermillion, Vigo	21 min
Jun 21, 6:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Clay, Sullivan, Vigo	33 min
Jun 21, 6:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Decatur	5 hr
Jun 21, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IND	Clay, Daviess, Greene, Hendricks, Knox, Martin and 9 more	39 min
Jun 21, 6:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Clay, Owen	26 min
Jun 21, 6:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Daviess, Knox	25 min
Jun 21, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Greene, Jackson, Johnson, Lawrence, Monroe and 3 more	41 min
Jun 21, 7:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Monroe, Morgan, Owen	26 min
Jun 21, 7:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Daviess, Knox	48 min
Jun 21, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IND	Daviess, Greene, Knox, Martin, Sullivan	43 min
Jun 21, 7:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Brown, Monroe, Morgan	20 min
Jun 21, 7:27 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Daviess, Knox	48 min
Jun 21, 7:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Greene, Knox, Sullivan	3 hr
Jun 21, 7:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Morgan	11 min
Jun 21, 7:35 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gibson, Posey, Vanderburgh	40 min
Jun 21, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings, Johnson and 4 more	48 min
Jun 21, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IND	Daviess, Lawrence, Martin	43 min
Jun 21, 7:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Daviess, Lawrence, Martin	39 min
Jun 21, 7:55 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown	20 min
Jun 21, 8:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Dubois, Orange, Washington	42 min
Jun 21, 8:09 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Greene, Monroe	3 hr
Jun 21, 8:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IND	Daviess, Knox, Martin	66 min
Jun 21, 8:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Orange	49 min
Jun 21, 8:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PAH	Gibson	30 min
Jun 21, 8:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Decatur, Shelby	24 min
Jun 21, 8:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Daviess, Knox, Martin	3 hr
Jun 21, 8:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Decatur, Jennings, Rush, Shelby	50 min
Jun 21, 8:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Jackson, Lawrence	48 min
Jun 21, 8:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Brown, Jackson, Monroe	4 hr
Jun 21, 8:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gibson, Pike, Warrick	47 min
Jun 21, 8:35 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Decatur	25 min
Jun 21, 8:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois, Orange, Washington	39 min
Jun 21, 8:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Orange, Washington	44 min
Jun 21, 8:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PAH	Pike, Warrick	21 min
Jun 21, 8:55 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Washington	50 min
Jun 21, 8:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LMK	Dubois	46 min
Jun 21, 9:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Martin	21 min
Jun 21, 9:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Spencer, Warrick	41 min
Jun 21, 9:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Orange	39 min
Jun 21, 9:09 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Bartholomew	3 hr
Jun 21, 9:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Daviess, Lawrence, Martin	4 hr
Jun 21, 9:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Orange, Scott, Washington	43 min
Jun 21, 9:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois, Orange	25 min
Jun 21, 9:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gibson, Pike, Warrick	50 min
Jun 21, 9:27 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison, Orange, Washington	48 min
Jun 21, 9:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Orange, Washington	3 hr
Jun 21, 9:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Clark, Jefferson, Scott, Washington	44 min
Jun 21, 9:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Jennings	28 min
Jun 21, 9:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	28 min
Jun 21, 9:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Perry	39 min
Jun 21, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Orange, Washington	36 min
Jun 21, 9:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois, Perry	38 min
Jun 21, 9:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison, Orange, Washington	15 min
Jun 21, 9:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gibson, Posey, Vanderburgh	49 min
Jun 21, 10:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Perry	3 hr
Jun 21, 10:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Vanderburgh, Warrick	24 min
Jun 21, 10:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd	39 min
Jun 21, 10:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Crawford, Perry	53 min
Jun 21, 10:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gibson, Pike, Spencer, Warrick	33 min
Jun 21, 10:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gibson, Spencer, Warrick	32 min
Jun 21, 10:18 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Gibson, Pike, Warrick	6 hr
Jun 21, 10:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Spencer, Warrick	41 min
Jun 21, 10:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Scott and 1 more	3 hr
Jun 21, 10:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison	45 min
Jun 21, 10:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gibson, Vanderburgh, Warrick	51 min
Jun 21, 10:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Posey, Vanderburgh	49 min
Jun 21, 10:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Spencer	24 min
Jun 21, 10:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison	3 hr
Jun 21, 10:56 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Daviess, Knox, Martin	64 min
Jun 21, 10:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Perry	49 min
Jun 21, 11:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Harrison	27 min
Jun 21, 11:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison, Perry	24 min
Jun 21, 11:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	31 min
Jun 21, 11:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Vanderburgh, Warrick	51 min
Jun 21, 11:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick	45 min
Jun 21, 11:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	26 min
Jun 21, 11:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Daviess, Martin	5 hr
Jun 21, 11:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	47 min
Jun 22, 12:01 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Spencer, Warrick	44 min
Jun 22, 12:22 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Perry	38 min
Jun 22, 12:50 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Perry	40 min
Jun 22, 1:38 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Perry	4 hr

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 201 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1482 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 2:28 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Gibson, Knox, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Sullivan and 3 more	9 hr
Jun 21, 3:34 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Knox, Sullivan	116 min
Jun 21, 5:23 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clay, Clinton, Daviess and 37 more	97 min
Jun 21, 7:53 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Brown, Clay, Daviess, Decatur, Dubois and 25 more	97 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.