Alert archive / Indiana

Weather alerts in Tippecanoe County, Indiana

3,314 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Tippecanoe County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,314
Warnings
1,139
Watches
568
Advisories
649
Busiest year
2026211 alerts
Average year
81over 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, 40% of tornado reports in Tippecanoe County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 8 minutes before, and 80% 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
201040100%0
201170100%0
201210100%0
20133167%20%
20153233%2100%3 min
20168275%20%
2018220%1100%22 min
201920100%0
202010100%0
2021010%
202220100%0
202330100%0
20252150%250%3 min
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200813192%743%12 min
200912833%1567%19 min
2010231917%1681%39 min
2011371657%3566%28 min
201213931%1030%16 min
201312650%1155%11 min
201413838%1145%22 min
201526869%1377%16 min
201611464%771%18 min
2017181233%1182%15 min
20186267%838%4 min
2019181517%3876%19 min
2020131023%1663%19 min
20216517%850%25 min
20228450%0
2023141029%4100%22 min
202413654%3100%33 min
2025201335%1688%26 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200820100%10%
20096350%0
20103233%1100%362 min
20114250%1100%58 min
20157186%0
201710100%0
201810100%0
2019220%1100%46 min

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
Sep 17, 8:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIND31 min
Aug 20, 10:00 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIND13 hr
Aug 20, 3:44 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIND44 hr
Aug 20, 3:44 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIND34 hr
Aug 19, 8:37 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningIND4 hr
Aug 19, 6:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningIND5 hr
Aug 19, 5:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningIND3 hr
Aug 15, 8:16 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningIND14 hr
Aug 15, 3:48 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningIND18 hr
Aug 15, 3:45 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningIND18 hr
Aug 15, 3:08 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningIND3 hr
Aug 15, 10:04 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningIND6 hr

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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.