Flood Watches in Indiana
403 flood watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 403
- Busiest year
- 202673 flood watches
- Average year
- 19over 21 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 county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Switzerland County69
- Ohio County68
- Dearborn County65
- Ripley County64
- Floyd County58
- Clark County57
- Franklin County57
- Harrison County57
- Martin County57
- Brown County56
- Jackson County56
- Jennings County56
- Lawrence County56
- Bartholomew County55
- Jefferson County55
- Perry County55
- Crawford County54
- Decatur County54
- Greene County54
- Monroe County54
- Daviess County53
- Knox County53
- Wells County53
- White County53
- Allen County52
- Dubois County52
- Huntington County52
- Scott County52
- Sullivan County52
- Wayne County52
- Adams County51
- Blackford County51
- Jay County51
- Miami County51
- Union County51
- Wabash County51
- Fayette County50
- Fulton County50
- Grant County50
- Starke County50
52 more counties
- Washington County50
- Whitley County50
- Gibson County49
- Johnson County49
- Orange County49
- Vanderburgh County49
- Clay County48
- Owen County48
- Posey County48
- Pulaski County48
- Spencer County48
- Vigo County48
- Warrick County48
- Lake County48
- Cass County47
- Marion County47
- Morgan County47
- Shelby County47
- Hendricks County46
- Putnam County46
- Jasper County46
- Marshall County46
- Newton County46
- DeKalb County45
- Pike County45
- Benton County45
- Noble County45
- Hancock County44
- Rush County44
- Elkhart County44
- Porter County44
- Steuben County42
- Henry County41
- LaGrange County41
- Parke County40
- Boone County39
- Hamilton County39
- Delaware County38
- Madison County38
- Randolph County38
- Clinton County38
- Howard County38
- Vermillion County38
- Tipton County37
- Fountain County37
- Montgomery County37
- Tippecanoe County36
- Warren County36
- Carroll County34
- Kosciusko County11
- LaPorte County10
- Saint Joseph County10
The latest flood watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 1:58 PM EDT | Flood Watch | IWX | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Grant, Huntington, Jay and 4 more | 10 hr |
| Sep 20, 1:07 PM EDT | Flood Watch | ILN | Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ripley, Union, Wayne | 23 hr |
| Sep 18, 3:20 PM EDT | Flood Watch | IWX | Adams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton and 15 more | 47 hr |
| Sep 18, 2:47 PM EDT | Flood Watch | LOT | Lake, Porter | 47 hr |
| Sep 17, 2:08 PM EDT | Flood Watch | IND | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clinton, Decatur, Delaware and 15 more | 20 hr |
| Sep 17, 1:53 PM EDT | Flood Watch | ILN | Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Union and 1 more | 18 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:28 PM EDT | Flood Watch | IND | Delaware, Henry, Howard, Madison, Randolph, Tipton | 23 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:18 PM EDT | Flood Watch | IWX | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Grant, Huntington, Jay and 4 more | 23 hr |
| Sep 16, 2:55 PM EDT | Flood Watch | ILN | Wayne | 23 hr |
| Aug 19, 12:40 PM EDT | Flood Watch | ILN | Fayette, Union, Wayne | 21 hr |
| Aug 19, 12:31 PM EDT | Flood Watch | IWX | Adams, Blackford, Cass, Fulton, Grant, Huntington and 6 more | 15 hr |
| Aug 19, 4:07 AM EDT | Flood Watch | IND | Boone, Carroll, Clinton, Delaware, Fountain, Hamilton and 18 more | 28 hr |
Nearby
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.