Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Indiana, May 1997
3 tornado watches in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 19, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- DeKalb County2
- Steuben County2
- Crawford County1
- Daviess County1
- Dubois County1
- Gibson County1
- Knox County1
- Martin County1
- Orange County1
- Perry County1
- Pike County1
- Posey County1
- Spencer County1
- Vanderburgh County1
- Warrick County1
- Benton County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Elkhart County1
- Fulton County1
- Grant 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
- Wabash County1
- White County1
- Whitley County1
- Adams County1
- Allen County1
4 more counties
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.