Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Indiana, 1998
26 tornado watches in 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 26
- Busiest month
- April12 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 16, 19985 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 28, 2:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clay, Crawford, Daviess, Decatur and 34 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 7, 4:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Greene and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 7, 7:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 44 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 7, 10:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 2:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Jefferson, Switzerland | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 12:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette, Floyd and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 13, 6:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Vigo | 5 hr |
| Apr 15, 3:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lake, Porter | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 8:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 42 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 15, 10:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ohio, Switzerland | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 11:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Posey | 5 hr |
| Apr 16, 1:45 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Decatur, Dubois and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 16, 1:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Blackford, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Dearborn and 33 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 7:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lake, Newton | 6 hr |
| May 22, 5:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Posey | 6 hr |
| May 23, 7:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 5:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass and 45 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 7:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Decatur, Delaware and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clay and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Brown, Decatur, Delaware and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn and 26 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 3:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter, Vermillion and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Knox, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 71 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 10, 7:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clay, Clinton, Crawford and 35 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bartholomew County12
- Crawford County12
- Perry County12
- Spencer County12
- Warrick County12
- Brown County11
- Decatur County11
- Dubois County11
- Orange County11
- Pike County11
- Posey County11
- Washington County11
- Gibson County10
- Greene County10
- Harrison County10
- Jackson County10
- Jennings County10
- Lawrence County10
- Martin County10
- Monroe County10
- Scott County10
- Vanderburgh County10
- Clark County10
- Jefferson County10
- Clay County9
- Daviess County9
- Knox County9
- Owen County9
- Sullivan County9
- Vigo County9
- Floyd County9
- Switzerland County9
- Fayette County8
- Hancock County8
- Johnson County8
- Morgan County8
- Putnam County8
- Wayne County8
- Dearborn County8
- Franklin County8
52 more counties
- Ripley County8
- Hendricks County7
- Marion County7
- Parke County7
- Rush County7
- Shelby County7
- Vermillion County7
- Ohio County7
- Union County7
- Benton County5
- Blackford County5
- Boone County5
- Clinton County5
- Delaware County5
- Fountain County5
- Hamilton County5
- Henry County5
- Jasper County5
- Jay County5
- Madison County5
- Montgomery County5
- Newton County5
- Randolph County5
- Tippecanoe County5
- Tipton County5
- Warren County5
- Lake County5
- Porter County5
- Carroll County4
- Cass County4
- Grant County4
- Howard County4
- Miami County4
- Wabash County4
- Wells County4
- White County4
- Allen County4
- DeKalb County3
- Fulton County3
- Huntington County3
- Kosciusko County3
- Marshall County3
- Noble County3
- Pulaski County3
- Starke County3
- Whitley County3
- Adams County3
- Elkhart County2
- LaGrange County2
- LaPorte County2
- Saint Joseph County2
- Steuben County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.