Alert archive / Indiana

Weather alerts in Montgomery County, Indiana

3,177 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Montgomery County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,177
Warnings
975
Watches
566
Advisories
650
Busiest year
2026195 alerts
Average year
77over 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

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 100% of tornado reports in Montgomery County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 15 minutes before, and 76% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20083167%0
200930100%0
201050100%0
20118188%0
20125260%2100%8 min
20136183%0
201530100%0
20166350%4100%19 min
201730100%0
20182150%0
20222150%2100%20 min
2023220%1100%5 min
202530100%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200820765%580%20 min
200920955%5100%26 min
2010291741%4100%15 min
2011331458%1331%27 min
2012211529%7100%19 min
201315660%956%11 min
2014261350%2100%25 min
2015281161%2100%28 min
201613469%10%
2017271448%1060%22 min
2018660%0
2019261927%7100%18 min
2020151220%580%12 min
20219811%367%6 min
202211736%1100%34 min
2023221627%875%19 min
2024201335%8100%11 min
2025271930%888%16 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20085260%10%
201010100%0
201110100%0
201410100%0
201510370%0
2016110%0
201710100%0
2018110%0
2019220%2100%111 min
2020110%0
2021220%0
2025010%

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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.

By product

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

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 19, 10:19 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningIND3 hr
Aug 16, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIND52 min
Aug 15, 8:16 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningIND14 hr
Aug 15, 3:08 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningIND3 hr
Aug 15, 6:48 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningIND8 hr
Aug 14, 8:13 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningIND4 hr
Aug 14, 4:56 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningIND4 hr
Aug 14, 3:37 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningIND5 hr
Aug 14, 2:44 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIND31 min
Aug 14, 1:33 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIND57 min
Aug 12, 12:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIND52 min
Aug 11, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIND25 min

Nearby

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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.