Alert archive

Weather alerts in Indiana

63,042 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.

Weather alerts by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
63,042
Warnings
31,222
Watches
3,662
Advisories
10,621
Busiest year
20263,802 alerts
Average year
1,538over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

ProductAlerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning16,202
Tornado Warning2,651
Severe Thunderstorm Watch1,134
Tornado Watch529
Mesoscale Discussion3,488
Special Weather Statement13,422
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning1,420
Flash Flood Warning2,916
Hydrologic Warning1
River Flood Warning5,882
Flash Flood Watch390
Flood Watch403
River Flood Watch234
Areal Flood Advisory3,807
River Flood Advisory436
River Flood Statement1
Winter
Blizzard Warning21
Heavy Snow Warning14
Ice Storm Warning25
Lake Effect Snow Warning34
Snow Squall Warning11
Winter Storm Warning328
Blizzard Watch6
Lake Effect Snow Watch31
Winter Storm Watch300
Blowing Snow Advisory10
Freezing Rain Advisory85
Lake Effect Snow Advisory80
Lake Effect Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory2
Snow Advisory66
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory13
Winter Weather Advisory1,100
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning77
Extreme Heat Warning13
Excessive Heat Watch41
Extreme Heat Watch6
Heat Advisory471
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning8
Freeze Warning441
Hard Freeze Warning2
Wind Chill Warning40
Extreme Cold Watch4
Freeze Watch206
Hard Freeze Watch3
Wind Chill Watch17
Cold Weather Advisory56
Frost Advisory507
Wind Chill Advisory236
Wind and dust
Dust Storm Warning3
High Wind Warning99
High Wind Watch52
Blowing Dust Advisory4
Dust Storm Advisory1
Lake Wind Advisory132
Wind Advisory887
Fire
Red Flag Warning123
Fire Weather Watch61
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory955
Freezing Fog Advisory53
Coast and beach
Lakeshore Flood Warning47
Lakeshore Flood Watch22
Lakeshore Flood Advisory98
Beach Hazards Statement428
Lakeshore Flood Statement77
Rip Current Statement119
Marine
Gale Warning369
Heavy Freezing Spray Warning26
Special Marine Warning446
Storm Warning23
Gale Watch203
Heavy Freezing Spray Watch10
Storm Watch10
Marine Dense Fog Advisory91
Marine Dense Smoke Advisory2
Small Craft Advisory1,529
Marine Weather Statement2

By county

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

52 more counties

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 20, 7:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin, Union, Wayne41 min
Sep 20, 6:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette, Union, Wayne49 min
Sep 20, 6:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette, Wayne34 min
Sep 20, 6:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHenry38 min
Sep 20, 11:46 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXLaPorte, Saint Joseph, Starke24 hr
Sep 19, 10:05 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningLOTLake17 hr
Sep 18, 6:22 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningINDDaviess, Martin3 hr
Sep 18, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDaviess, Knox51 min
Sep 17, 8:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDCarroll, Clinton, Tippecanoe31 min
Sep 17, 8:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWhite40 min
Sep 17, 2:18 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningIWXAdams, Huntington, Jay, Wells20 hr
Sep 17, 10:08 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIWXAllen9 days

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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. Rebuilt daily.