Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, May 1997
3 severe thunderstorm watches in May 1997. 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 severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 5, 19971 severe thunderstorm watches
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 5, 1:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Elkhart and 32 more | 5 hr |
| May 18, 1:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 43 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 12:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 50 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County3
- Boone County3
- Carroll County3
- Cass County3
- Clinton County3
- Fountain County3
- Fulton County3
- Grant County3
- Hamilton County3
- Hendricks County3
- Howard County3
- Huntington County3
- Jasper County3
- Kosciusko County3
- Marion County3
- Miami County3
- Montgomery County3
- Newton County3
- Parke County3
- Pulaski County3
- Tippecanoe County3
- Tipton County3
- Wabash County3
- Warren County3
- White County3
- Whitley County3
- Elkhart County2
- LaGrange County2
- Lake County2
- LaPorte County2
- Marshall County2
- Morgan County2
- Noble County2
- Porter County2
- Putnam County2
- Saint Joseph County2
- Starke County2
- Vermillion County2
- Adams County2
- Allen County2
28 more counties
- Blackford County2
- Delaware County2
- Hancock County2
- Henry County2
- Jay County2
- Madison County2
- Randolph County2
- Wayne County2
- Wells County2
- DeKalb County1
- Steuben County1
- Bartholomew County1
- Brown County1
- Clay County1
- Dearborn County1
- Decatur County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Jennings County1
- Johnson County1
- Monroe County1
- Owen County1
- Ripley County1
- Rush County1
- Shelby 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.