Alert archive / Indiana / 1997
Weather alerts in Indiana, May 1997
45 weather alerts in May 1997, 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 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 45
- Warnings
- 39
- Watches
- 6
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 1, 199718 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 7:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Posey | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 7:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Johnson | 37 min |
| Apr 30, 7:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Shelby | 34 min |
| Apr 30, 7:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Lawrence, Martin | 29 min |
| Apr 30, 7:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Monroe | 29 min |
| Apr 30, 7:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gibson, Pike | 42 min |
| Apr 30, 7:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Vanderburgh | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 7:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Decatur, Hancock, Henry, Rush | 54 min |
| Apr 30, 7:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Warrick | 50 min |
| Apr 30, 7:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 32 min |
| Apr 30, 8:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Spencer | 40 min |
| Apr 30, 8:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 33 min |
| Apr 30, 8:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Orange | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 8:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Perry | 35 min |
| Apr 30, 8:39 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Crawford, Perry | 21 min |
| Apr 30, 8:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison, Washington | 33 min |
| Apr 30, 9:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 9:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 28 min |
| May 2, 1:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Knox, Martin and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 3:04 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Benton | 26 min |
| May 5, 1:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Elkhart and 32 more | 5 hr |
| May 5, 2:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lake | 50 min |
| May 5, 2:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Porter | 29 min |
| May 5, 2:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lake | 34 min |
| May 5, 3:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Jasper, Porter | 30 min |
| May 5, 3:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | LaPorte, Starke | 29 min |
| May 5, 3:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Benton | 32 min |
| May 5, 4:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Marshall | 43 min |
| May 18, 1:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 43 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 2:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb | 27 min |
| May 18, 8:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton and 19 more | 5 hr |
| May 18, 8:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LOT | Lake, Porter | 60 min |
| May 18, 8:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Benton, Newton | 2 hr |
| May 18, 8:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Jasper, LaPorte, Pulaski, Starke, White | 2 hr |
| May 18, 8:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Marshall, Saint Joseph | 2 hr |
| May 18, 9:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Fulton, Kosciusko | 56 min |
| May 18, 9:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Elkhart | 56 min |
| May 18, 9:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange | 35 min |
| May 18, 9:48 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IWX | LaGrange, Steuben | 27 min |
| May 18, 9:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Noble | 33 min |
| May 18, 10:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Jay, Randolph and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 10:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 39 min |
| May 19, 12:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 50 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 3:03 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Wayne | 4 hr |
| May 31, 6:44 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Wayne | 4 hr |
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 | 33 |
| Tornado Warning | 4 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
| Tornado Watch | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County7
- Jasper County6
- Lake County6
- Porter County6
- Fulton County5
- Kosciusko County5
- LaGrange County5
- LaPorte County5
- Marshall County5
- Newton County5
- Pulaski County5
- Starke County5
- White County5
- Carroll County4
- Cass County4
- Elkhart County4
- Grant County4
- Huntington County4
- Miami County4
- Noble County4
- Saint Joseph County4
- Wabash County4
- Whitley County4
- Allen County4
- DeKalb County4
- Steuben County4
- Wayne County4
- Hancock County3
- Henry County3
- Crawford County3
- Perry County3
- Boone County3
- Clinton County3
- Fountain County3
- Hamilton County3
- Hendricks County3
- Howard County3
- Marion County3
- Montgomery County3
- Parke County3
47 more counties
- Tippecanoe County3
- Tipton County3
- Warren County3
- Adams County3
- Blackford County3
- Jay County3
- Randolph County3
- Wells County3
- Posey County2
- Johnson County2
- Bartholomew County2
- Shelby County2
- Martin County2
- Monroe County2
- Gibson County2
- Pike County2
- Vanderburgh County2
- Decatur County2
- Rush County2
- Warrick County2
- Dubois County2
- Spencer County2
- Franklin County2
- Orange County2
- Morgan County2
- Putnam County2
- Vermillion County2
- Delaware County2
- Madison County2
- Lawrence County1
- Harrison County1
- Washington County1
- Clark County1
- Floyd County1
- Jefferson County1
- Daviess County1
- Knox County1
- Brown County1
- Clay County1
- Dearborn County1
- Fayette County1
- Greene County1
- Jennings County1
- Owen County1
- Ripley County1
- Union County1
- Vigo 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.