Alert archive / Indiana / Clay County
Weather alerts in Clay County, Indiana, 2025
146 weather alerts in 2025, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Clay County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 146
- Warnings
- 51
- Watches
- 16
- Advisories
- 51
- Busiest month
- April25 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 16, 20258 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
1 of 4 tornado warnings covering Clay County in 2025 had a tornado report inside them.
Clay County, 2025
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 4 | 1 | 75% | 0 | ||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 30 | 19 | 37% | 5 | 100% | 20 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 2 | 1 | 50% | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2025
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Indianapolis, IN: tornado warnings | 54 | 20 | 63% | 39 | 82% | 13 min |
| NWS Indianapolis, IN: severe thunderstorm warnings | 215 | 137 | 36% | 407 | 89% | 23 min |
| NWS Indianapolis, IN: flash flood warnings | 33 | 16 | 52% | 26 | 69% | 68 min |
An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.
Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.
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 | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 3:18 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | IND | 35 hr |
| Jan 4, 2:30 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | IND | 60 hr |
| Jan 9, 3:21 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | IND | 48 hr |
| Jan 18, 3:28 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | IND | 11 hr |
| Jan 18, 2:50 PM EST | Cold Weather Advisory | IND | 4 days |
| Feb 6, 2:49 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | IND | 5 hr |
| Feb 11, 2:29 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | IND | 35 hr |
| Feb 15, 2:04 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | IND | 29 hr |
| Feb 27, 2:10 PM EST | Wind Advisory | IND | 32 hr |
| Mar 5, 11:38 AM EST | Wind Advisory | IND | 13 hr |
| Mar 13, 1:23 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | IND | 53 hr |
| Mar 14, 9:02 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Mar 15, 3:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 52 min |
| Mar 18, 2:53 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | IND | 30 hr |
| Mar 19, 1:16 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Mar 19, 5:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Mar 19, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 50 min |
| Mar 19, 6:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | 28 min |
| Mar 19, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 39 min |
| Mar 22, 1:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | 66 min |
| Mar 30, 1:02 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 51 min |
| Mar 30, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 6:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | 3 hr |
| Mar 31, 11:51 AM EDT | Flood Watch | IND | 6 days |
| Apr 1, 2:48 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | IND | 33 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:02 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | 21 days |
| Apr 2, 3:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 4:17 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Apr 2, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 41 min |
| Apr 2, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 47 min |
| Apr 4, 10:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 1:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | 3 hr |
| Apr 5, 6:51 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | 6 hr |
| Apr 5, 12:37 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | 47 hr |
| Apr 6, 2:55 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | IND | 24 hr |
| Apr 7, 2:54 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | IND | 31 hr |
| Apr 7, 5:01 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | IND | 4 hr |
| Apr 7, 11:45 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | 24 hr |
| Apr 8, 2:41 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | IND | 18 hr |
| Apr 11, 2:42 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | IND | 30 hr |
| Apr 15, 3:21 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | IND | 30 hr |
| Apr 19, 4:05 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 115 min |
| Apr 19, 4:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 36 min |
| Apr 19, 4:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 47 min |
| Apr 19, 6:35 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:14 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 5:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Apr 30, 10:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | 24 min |
| May 6, 2:58 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | IND | 6 hr |
| May 8, 2:06 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | 3 hr |
| May 8, 3:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | 3 hr |
| May 8, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | 31 min |
| May 8, 3:47 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | 3 hr |
| May 16, 3:59 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| May 16, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 58 min |
| May 16, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 40 min |
| May 16, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 38 min |
| May 16, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 52 min |
| May 16, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 46 min |
| May 16, 7:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | 43 min |
| May 16, 7:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 16, 8:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | 31 min |
| May 29, 1:30 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | IND | 8 hr |
| Jun 5, 11:49 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 7:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | 11 hr |
| Jun 9, 9:21 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IND | 15 hr |
| Jun 14, 1:00 PM EDT | Flood Watch | IND | 9 hr |
| Jun 14, 1:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 11:57 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:01 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:44 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 3:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | 24 min |
| Jun 18, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 52 min |
| Jun 18, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 49 min |
| Jun 20, 3:10 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | IND | 8 days |
| Jun 27, 2:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Jun 29, 7:48 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 6:34 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | 116 min |
| Jul 6, 1:09 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 12, 12:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | 37 min |
| Jul 16, 7:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | 36 min |
| Jul 16, 7:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 62 min |
| Jul 16, 7:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | 43 min |
| Jul 17, 8:23 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | 112 min |
| Jul 17, 10:47 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | 3 hr |
| Jul 20, 3:03 AM EDT | Flood Watch | IND | 24 hr |
| Jul 20, 5:52 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 113 min |
| Jul 20, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 40 min |
| Jul 20, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 45 min |
| Jul 20, 7:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | 3 hr |
| Jul 20, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 45 min |
| Jul 21, 6:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 3:05 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | IND | 65 hr |
| Jul 24, 7:53 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | IND | 48 hr |
| Jul 25, 3:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 3:25 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | IND | 65 hr |
| Jul 27, 4:19 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | 116 min |
| Jul 29, 11:35 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | IND | 32 hr |
| Jul 30, 1:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 31, 5:52 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 12:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IND | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 1:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IND | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 44 min |
| Aug 17, 1:41 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IND | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 2:15 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 90 min |
| Sep 22, 8:59 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | IND | 12 hr |
| Oct 9, 2:12 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | IND | 19 hr |
| Oct 22, 8:59 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | IND | 24 hr |
| Oct 22, 12:57 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | IND | 13 hr |
| Oct 23, 2:18 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | IND | 31 hr |
| Nov 9, 8:40 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | IND | 15 hr |
| Nov 18, 3:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 35 min |
| Nov 18, 3:33 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | IND | 42 min |
| Nov 18, 4:06 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | IND | 39 min |
| Nov 18, 4:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 42 min |
| Nov 20, 8:21 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | IND | 14 hr |
| Nov 23, 8:04 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | IND | 15 hr |
| Nov 25, 10:15 AM EST | Wind Advisory | IND | 33 hr |
| Nov 27, 1:38 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | IND | 24 hr |
| Nov 28, 1:26 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | IND | 38 hr |
| Nov 29, 3:16 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Dec 1, 3:18 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | IND | 28 hr |
| Dec 10, 7:42 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | IND | 37 hr |
| Dec 12, 2:19 PM EST | Cold Weather Advisory | IND | 68 hr |
| Dec 12, 2:19 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | IND | 37 hr |
| Dec 13, 3:10 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | IND | 18 hr |
| Dec 13, 10:43 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Dec 13, 2:48 PM EST | Extreme Cold Warning | IND | 20 hr |
| Dec 18, 11:23 AM EST | Wind Advisory | IND | 9 hr |
| Dec 18, 4:48 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| Dec 24, 1:59 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | IND | 7 hr |
| Dec 24, 1:39 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | IND | 19 hr |
| Dec 28, 12:03 AM EST | Wind Advisory | IND | 41 hr |
| Dec 28, 2:18 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| Dec 28, 3:47 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Dec 28, 6:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 25 min |
| Dec 28, 6:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 43 min |
| Dec 28, 6:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 46 min |
| Dec 28, 7:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | 46 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 | 30 |
| Tornado Warning | 4 |
| Tornado Watch | 8 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 18 |
| Special Weather Statement | 10 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 6 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
| River Flood Warning | 2 |
| Flood Watch | 3 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 16 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 2 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 2 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 8 |
| Heat | |
| Heat Advisory | 5 |
| Cold | |
| Extreme Cold Warning | 1 |
| Freeze Warning | 4 |
| Extreme Cold Watch | 1 |
| Freeze Watch | 2 |
| Cold Weather Advisory | 2 |
| Frost Advisory | 3 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 8 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 9 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.