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Tornado Watches in Indiana, 1997
13 tornado watches 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest month
- March4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 30, 19973 tornado watches
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 8:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Floyd, Harrison | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 3:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Posey, Vermillion, Vigo | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 63 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 7:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dearborn, Franklin, Ohio, Switzerland, Union, Wayne | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 2:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Daviess, Fountain, Greene, Knox, Martin and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 3:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Carroll, Cass and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 5:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Clark, Clay and 49 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 1:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Knox, Martin and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 8:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton and 19 more | 5 hr |
| May 18, 10:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Jay, Randolph and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 1:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 40 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 5:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dearborn, Ohio, Switzerland | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Delaware, Elkhart and 17 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blackford County6
- Vigo County5
- Adams County5
- Grant County5
- Huntington County5
- Jay County5
- Miami County5
- Wabash County5
- Wells County5
- DeKalb County5
- Steuben County5
- Posey County4
- Vermillion County4
- Carroll County4
- Cass County4
- Clay County4
- Daviess County4
- Delaware County4
- Howard County4
- Knox County4
- Madison County4
- Martin County4
- Parke County4
- Randolph County4
- Tipton County4
- Allen County4
- Elkhart County4
- Fulton County4
- Kosciusko County4
- LaGrange County4
- Marshall County4
- Noble County4
- Whitley County4
- Clark County3
- Benton County3
- Boone County3
- Clinton County3
- Crawford County3
- Dubois County3
- Fayette County3
52 more counties
- Fountain County3
- Gibson County3
- Greene County3
- Hamilton County3
- Hancock County3
- Hendricks County3
- Henry County3
- Johnson County3
- Marion County3
- Montgomery County3
- Morgan County3
- Newton County3
- Orange County3
- Owen County3
- Pike County3
- Putnam County3
- Rush County3
- Shelby County3
- Sullivan County3
- Tippecanoe County3
- Warrick County3
- White County3
- Dearborn County3
- Franklin County3
- Ohio County3
- Switzerland County3
- Union County3
- Wayne County3
- Saint Joseph County3
- Floyd County2
- Harrison County2
- Bartholomew County2
- Brown County2
- Decatur County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Jennings County2
- Lawrence County2
- Monroe County2
- Perry County2
- Ripley County2
- Scott County2
- Spencer County2
- Vanderburgh County2
- Warren County2
- Washington County2
- Jasper County2
- Lake County2
- LaPorte County2
- Porter County2
- Pulaski County2
- Starke County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19961998
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.