Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Indiana, March 1997
4 tornado watches in March 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 March 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- March 28, 19972 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clark County2
- Floyd County2
- Harrison County2
- Posey County2
- Vermillion County2
- Vigo County2
- Adams County1
- Bartholomew County1
- Benton County1
- Blackford County1
- Boone County1
- Brown County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Crawford County1
- Daviess County1
- Decatur County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubois County1
- Fayette County1
- Fountain County1
- Gibson County1
- Grant County1
- Greene County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hendricks County1
- Henry County1
- Howard County1
- Huntington County1
- Jackson County1
- Jay County1
- Jefferson County1
- Jennings County1
- Johnson County1
- Knox County1
- Lawrence County1
- Madison County1
35 more counties
- Marion County1
- Martin County1
- Miami County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Newton County1
- Orange County1
- Owen County1
- Parke County1
- Perry County1
- Pike County1
- Putnam County1
- Randolph County1
- Ripley County1
- Rush County1
- Scott County1
- Shelby County1
- Spencer County1
- Sullivan County1
- Tippecanoe County1
- Tipton County1
- Vanderburgh County1
- Wabash County1
- Warren County1
- Warrick County1
- Washington County1
- Wells County1
- White County1
- Dearborn County1
- Franklin County1
- Ohio County1
- Switzerland County1
- Union 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.