Alert archive / Indiana / 1987
Weather alerts in Indiana, May 1987
39 weather alerts in May 1987, 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 in May 1987. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 39
- Warnings
- 39
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 30, 198711 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 3:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Noble, Whitley | 28 min |
| May 14, 5:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wabash | 31 min |
| May 14, 7:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks | 30 min |
| May 14, 7:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Putnam | 30 min |
| May 14, 7:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Switzerland | 45 min |
| May 19, 3:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 35 min |
| May 19, 9:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Perry, Spencer | 38 min |
| May 20, 11:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clinton, Montgomery | 57 min |
| May 20, 12:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery | 35 min |
| May 20, 1:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Parke, Vermillion | 52 min |
| May 20, 2:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Monroe, Owen | 47 min |
| May 20, 3:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Monroe | 35 min |
| May 20, 4:00 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Monroe, Owen | 2 hr |
| May 21, 12:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Wayne | 29 min |
| May 21, 1:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Henry, Randolph, Wayne | 49 min |
| May 21, 1:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Wells | 59 min |
| May 21, 1:24 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Ripley | 56 min |
| May 21, 1:35 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Wayne | 115 min |
| May 21, 2:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb | 50 min |
| May 24, 7:10 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Harrison | 3 hr |
| May 24, 9:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd | 66 min |
| May 25, 5:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Jackson, Jennings | 35 min |
| May 25, 5:58 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew | 32 min |
| May 25, 6:19 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Decatur, Shelby | 41 min |
| May 25, 6:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Ripley | 46 min |
| May 25, 6:39 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Rush | 41 min |
| May 25, 7:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Hancock, Shelby | 29 min |
| May 29, 4:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Shelby | 48 min |
| May 29, 7:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks | 28 min |
| May 29, 7:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone | 33 min |
| May 30, 3:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock, Madison | 48 min |
| May 30, 3:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Decatur | 59 min |
| May 30, 3:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Marshall, Saint Joseph | 47 min |
| May 30, 4:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Rush | 44 min |
| May 30, 4:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Elkhart, Saint Joseph | 38 min |
| May 30, 4:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Henry, Wayne | 46 min |
| May 30, 4:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington, Whitley | 37 min |
| May 30, 5:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Noble | 36 min |
| May 30, 5:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Whitley | 36 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 26 |
| Tornado Warning | 10 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wayne County4
- Whitley County3
- Monroe County3
- Shelby County3
- Noble County2
- Hendricks County2
- Montgomery County2
- Owen County2
- Henry County2
- Allen County2
- Ripley County2
- DeKalb County2
- Decatur County2
- Rush County2
- Hancock County2
- Saint Joseph County2
- Wabash County1
- Putnam County1
- Switzerland County1
- Jefferson County1
- Perry County1
- Spencer County1
- Clinton County1
- Parke County1
- Vermillion County1
- Randolph County1
- Wells County1
- Harrison County1
- Clark County1
- Floyd County1
- Jackson County1
- Jennings County1
- Bartholomew County1
- Dearborn County1
- Boone County1
- Madison County1
- Marshall County1
- Elkhart County1
- Huntington 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. Rebuilt daily.