Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2018
18 severe thunderstorm watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 18
- Busiest month
- May7 severe thunderstorm watches
- Busiest day
- May 31, 20182 severe thunderstorm watches
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By month
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 2, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 9 hr |
| May 2, 11:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 4 hr |
| May 20, 1:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 6 hr |
| May 21, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Decatur, Fayette, Franklin, Hancock, Henry and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 1:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Union and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 31, 11:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 29 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford and 39 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 26, 10:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 28, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 7 hr |
| Jul 1, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 7 hr |
| Aug 6, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | DeKalb, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben | 5 hr |
| Aug 20, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crawford, Dubois, Gibson, Perry, Pike, Posey and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 28, 8:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lake, Porter | 4 hr |
| Sep 25, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 8 hr |
| Sep 25, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Huntington and 12 more | 87 min |
| Oct 6, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 26 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 31, 1:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson and 7 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Vanderburgh County7
- Warrick County7
- Posey County6
- Spencer County6
- Jasper County5
- Lake County5
- Newton County5
- Porter County5
- Crawford County5
- Dubois County5
- Gibson County5
- Perry County5
- Pike County5
- Benton County4
- Clark County4
- Floyd County4
- Harrison County4
- Orange County4
- Scott County4
- Washington County4
- Bartholomew County3
- Decatur County3
- Fayette County3
- Franklin County3
- Johnson County3
- Rush County3
- Shelby County3
- Union County3
- Wayne County3
- Jefferson County3
- DeKalb County3
- Noble County3
- Hancock County2
- Dearborn County2
- Ohio County2
- Ripley County2
- Brown County2
- Clay County2
- Daviess County2
- Greene County2
47 more counties
- Jackson County2
- Jennings County2
- Knox County2
- Lawrence County2
- Martin County2
- Monroe County2
- Morgan County2
- Owen County2
- Sullivan County2
- Vigo County2
- Boone County2
- Fountain County2
- Montgomery County2
- Parke County2
- Vermillion County2
- Warren County2
- LaGrange County2
- Steuben County2
- Allen County2
- Cass County2
- Fulton County2
- Huntington County2
- Kosciusko County2
- Marshall County2
- Miami County2
- Pulaski County2
- Starke County2
- Wabash County2
- White County2
- Whitley County2
- Henry County1
- Randolph County1
- Switzerland County1
- Hendricks County1
- Marion County1
- Putnam County1
- Elkhart County1
- Saint Joseph County1
- Adams County1
- Carroll County1
- Clinton County1
- Grant County1
- Hamilton County1
- Howard County1
- Tippecanoe County1
- Tipton County1
- Wells County1
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.