Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings / 1987

Tornado Warnings in Indiana, May 1987

10 tornado warnings in May 1987. 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 1987. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
10
Busiest day
May 25, 19876 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 19, 9:37 PM ESTTornado WarningINDPerry, Spencer38 min
May 21, 12:31 PM ESTTornado WarningINDWayne29 min
May 24, 7:10 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKHarrison3 hr
May 24, 9:54 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKClark, Floyd66 min
May 25, 5:35 PM ESTTornado WarningINDJackson, Jennings35 min
May 25, 5:58 PM ESTTornado WarningINDBartholomew32 min
May 25, 6:19 PM ESTTornado WarningINDDecatur, Shelby41 min
May 25, 6:39 PM ESTTornado WarningINDRush41 min
May 25, 7:16 PM ESTTornado WarningINDHancock, Shelby29 min
May 30, 4:06 PM ESTTornado WarningINDRush44 min

By county

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

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.