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Tornado Warnings in Indiana, 1997

30 tornado warnings in 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
30
Busiest month
March8 tornado warnings
Busiest day
March 29, 19976 tornado warnings

Over time

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 6:27 PM ESTTornado WarningINDClay, Vigo63 min
Mar 28, 6:28 PM ESTTornado WarningINDMarion32 min
Mar 28, 7:07 PM ESTTornado WarningINDHancock68 min
Mar 28, 7:30 PM ESTTornado WarningINDHenry60 min
Mar 28, 8:16 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKClark, Scott, Washington44 min
Mar 28, 8:26 PM ESTTornado WarningINDRush49 min
Mar 28, 8:44 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKJefferson31 min
Mar 28, 8:53 PM ESTTornado WarningINDDecatur52 min
Apr 30, 5:04 PM ESTTornado WarningINDParke, Vermillion26 min
Apr 30, 5:44 PM ESTTornado WarningLOTPulaski, Starke46 min
Apr 30, 5:59 PM ESTTornado WarningLOTPulaski, White31 min
Apr 30, 6:10 PM ESTTornado WarningLOTMarshall, Saint Joseph35 min
Apr 30, 6:27 PM ESTTornado WarningLOTElkhart, Saint Joseph33 min
Apr 30, 7:08 PM ESTTornado WarningINDJohnson37 min
Apr 30, 8:39 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKCrawford, Perry21 min
May 18, 8:15 PM ESTTornado WarningLOTLake, Porter60 min
May 18, 9:48 PM ESTTornado WarningIWXLaGrange, Steuben27 min
Jul 2, 2:29 PM ESTTornado WarningIWXAllen, Huntington, Wells46 min
Jul 2, 3:13 PM ESTTornado WarningINDMadison32 min
Jul 2, 3:45 PM ESTTornado WarningINDDelaware, Henry, Madison60 min
Jul 2, 4:24 PM ESTTornado WarningILNWayne46 min
Jul 8, 8:42 PM ESTTornado WarningINDCarroll, Howard48 min
Jul 8, 10:18 PM ESTTornado WarningINDClinton42 min
Jul 8, 10:24 PM ESTTornado WarningINDMadison36 min
Jul 27, 2:17 PM ESTTornado WarningIWXAllen43 min
Aug 16, 7:09 PM ESTTornado WarningLOTLaPorte36 min
Aug 16, 7:59 PM ESTTornado WarningLOTSaint Joseph31 min
Aug 17, 5:52 PM ESTTornado WarningILNDearborn33 min
Aug 18, 1:20 PM ESTTornado WarningPAHVanderburgh40 min
Aug 18, 1:23 PM ESTTornado WarningPAHPosey37 min

By county

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

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 29, 19976tornado warnings
  2. April 30, 19975tornado warnings
  3. July 2, 19974tornado warnings
  4. July 9, 19973tornado warnings
  5. August 17, 19973tornado warnings
  6. March 28, 19972tornado warnings
  7. May 1, 19972tornado warnings
  8. May 19, 19972tornado warnings
  9. August 18, 19972tornado warnings
  10. July 27, 19971tornado warnings

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. Rebuilt daily.