Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings / 1986

Tornado Warnings in Indiana, May 1986

9 tornado warnings in May 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

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

Tornado Warnings
9
Busiest day
May 15, 19864 tornado warnings

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 6:24 PM ESTTornado WarningIWXBlackford, Grant81 min
May 7, 5:30 PM ESTTornado WarningINDJohnson, Marion30 min
May 7, 6:10 PM ESTTornado WarningINDRush35 min
May 15, 4:16 PM ESTTornado WarningINDGibson, Pike44 min
May 15, 4:29 PM ESTTornado WarningINDPosey, Vanderburgh46 min
May 15, 5:40 PM ESTTornado WarningINDVanderburgh, Warrick35 min
May 15, 6:15 PM ESTTornado WarningINDDubois45 min
May 15, 7:53 PM ESTTornado WarningINDDaviess, Martin37 min
May 15, 8:50 PM ESTTornado WarningINDParke30 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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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. Rebuilt daily.