Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings
Tornado Warnings in Indiana, 2012
70 tornado warnings in 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 70
- Busiest month
- March34 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- March 2, 201228 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 7:06 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 24 min |
| Jan 17, 7:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Lawrence, Martin | 48 min |
| Jan 17, 8:11 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence | 49 min |
| Jan 17, 10:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Perry | 43 days |
| Jan 17, 10:54 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Harrison | 36 min |
| Jan 23, 1:14 AM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Putnam | 8 min |
| Feb 29, 6:04 AM EST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Posey | 26 min |
| Feb 29, 6:31 AM EST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 29 min |
| Feb 29, 6:59 AM EST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 31 min |
| Feb 29, 7:28 AM EST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Spencer | 17 min |
| Feb 29, 7:43 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Crawford, Harrison, Perry | 32 min |
| Feb 29, 7:44 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Perry | 15 min |
| Feb 29, 8:13 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 17 min |
| Feb 29, 8:20 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Harrison | 25 min |
| Mar 2, 1:07 PM EST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Posey | 38 min |
| Mar 2, 1:41 PM EST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gibson, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 1:58 PM EST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gibson, Posey | 24 min |
| Mar 2, 1:59 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Dubois, Perry | 46 min |
| Mar 2, 2:09 PM EST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gibson, Pike, Warrick | 21 min |
| Mar 2, 2:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Boone, Hamilton | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 2:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Crawford, Orange | 44 min |
| Mar 2, 2:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gibson, Pike, Warrick | 22 min |
| Mar 2, 2:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Orange, Washington | 50 min |
| Mar 2, 2:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Dubois | 18 min |
| Mar 2, 2:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Spencer | 50 min |
| Mar 2, 2:58 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Crawford, Orange | 17 min |
| Mar 2, 3:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark, Jefferson, Scott, Washington | 39 min |
| Mar 2, 3:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland | 38 min |
| Mar 2, 3:26 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Perry | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 3:33 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Perry | 27 min |
| Mar 2, 3:39 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Fayette, Union, Wayne | 36 min |
| Mar 2, 3:39 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark, Jefferson, Scott | 36 min |
| Mar 2, 3:41 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Crawford, Harrison, Orange, Washington | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 3:44 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Jennings | 16 min |
| Mar 2, 3:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Ripley | 28 min |
| Mar 2, 3:50 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Switzerland | 40 min |
| Mar 2, 3:51 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark | 24 min |
| Mar 2, 3:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Harrison | 22 min |
| Mar 2, 4:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Switzerland | 27 min |
| Mar 2, 4:09 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Fayette, Union, Wayne | 21 min |
| Mar 2, 4:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley | 20 min |
| Mar 2, 4:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Harrison | 25 min |
| Mar 23, 4:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Ohio, Switzerland | 23 min |
| Mar 23, 5:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Martin | 21 min |
| Mar 23, 5:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Greene, Lawrence, Monroe | 21 min |
| Mar 23, 6:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Greene, Monroe | 33 min |
| Mar 23, 6:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Brown, Monroe, Morgan | 33 min |
| Mar 23, 7:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Brown | 24 min |
| Apr 28, 5:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox, Martin | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 6:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess, Lawrence, Martin | 19 min |
| May 1, 3:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown | 23 min |
| May 1, 5:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Washington | 21 min |
| May 1, 5:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Franklin | 26 min |
| May 1, 5:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence | 29 min |
| May 1, 6:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Fountain, Vermillion, Warren | 44 min |
| May 1, 6:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery | 41 min |
| May 1, 7:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Boone, Montgomery | 46 min |
| May 1, 7:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Brown | 19 min |
| Jun 29, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 30 min |
| Jul 31, 7:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gibson, Pike, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 31 min |
| Aug 4, 6:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph | 42 min |
| Aug 4, 8:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Allen | 25 min |
| Aug 4, 8:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Adams | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 7:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam | 28 min |
| Aug 9, 7:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Jasper, Newton | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 8:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | White | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 10:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Johnson, Shelby | 26 min |
| Sep 7, 7:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Boone, Clinton, Montgomery, Tippecanoe | 42 min |
| Sep 7, 7:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Hendricks, Montgomery, Putnam | 46 min |
| Sep 7, 10:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Jennings | 13 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Harrison County8
- Crawford County6
- Perry County6
- Warrick County6
- Daviess County5
- Lawrence County5
- Clark County5
- Posey County5
- Gibson County5
- Montgomery County5
- Greene County4
- Martin County4
- Vanderburgh County4
- Orange County4
- Washington County4
- Switzerland County4
- Brown County4
- Floyd County3
- Putnam County3
- Spencer County3
- Jefferson County3
- Pike County3
- Boone County3
- Ripley County3
- Monroe County3
- Fountain County3
- Knox County2
- Jackson County2
- Dubois County2
- Scott County2
- Dearborn County2
- Ohio County2
- Fayette County2
- Union County2
- Wayne County2
- Jennings County2
- Franklin County2
- Bartholomew County2
- Allen County2
- Hamilton 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. Rebuilt daily.