Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Indiana, April 1997
3 tornado watches in April 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 April 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- April 30, 19973 tornado watches
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County2
- Daviess County2
- Fountain County2
- Greene County2
- Knox County2
- Martin County2
- Owen County2
- Parke County2
- Sullivan County2
- Vermillion County2
- Vigo County2
- Blackford County2
- Adams County1
- Allen County1
- Benton County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Clinton County1
- DeKalb County1
- Elkhart County1
- Fulton County1
- Grant County1
- Howard County1
- Huntington County1
- Jasper County1
- Kosciusko County1
- LaGrange County1
- Lake County1
- LaPorte County1
- Marshall County1
- Miami County1
- Newton County1
- Noble County1
- Porter County1
- Pulaski County1
- Saint Joseph County1
- Starke County1
- Steuben County1
- Tippecanoe County1
- Wabash County1
47 more counties
- Warren County1
- Wells County1
- White County1
- Whitley County1
- Bartholomew County1
- Boone County1
- Brown County1
- Clark County1
- Crawford County1
- Dearborn County1
- Decatur County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubois County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Gibson County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hendricks County1
- Henry County1
- Jackson County1
- Jay County1
- Jefferson County1
- Jennings County1
- Johnson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Ohio County1
- Orange County1
- Pike County1
- Posey County1
- Putnam County1
- Randolph County1
- Ripley County1
- Rush County1
- Scott County1
- Shelby County1
- Switzerland County1
- Tipton County1
- Union County1
- Warrick County1
- Washington County1
- Wayne County1
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.