Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Indiana, April 1998
12 tornado watches in April 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 April 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest day
- April 16, 19985 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Crawford County6
- Perry County6
- Dearborn County6
- Jennings County6
- Ripley County6
- Clark County6
- Jefferson County6
- Switzerland County6
- Dubois County5
- Orange County5
- Spencer County5
- Warrick County5
- Bartholomew County5
- Decatur County5
- Franklin County5
- Ohio County5
- Floyd County5
- Harrison County5
- Scott County5
- Washington County5
- Gibson County4
- Martin County4
- Pike County4
- Posey County4
- Vanderburgh County4
- Vigo County4
- Brown County4
- Fayette County4
- Monroe County4
- Union County4
- Wayne County4
- Jackson County4
- Clay County3
- Daviess County3
- Greene County3
- Knox County3
- Owen County3
- Putnam County3
- Sullivan County3
- Hancock County3
36 more counties
- Johnson County3
- Rush County3
- Shelby County3
- Lawrence County3
- Blackford County2
- Delaware County2
- Hendricks County2
- Henry County2
- Jay County2
- Marion County2
- Morgan County2
- Parke County2
- Randolph County2
- Vermillion County2
- Benton County1
- Boone County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Clinton County1
- Fountain County1
- Grant County1
- Hamilton County1
- Howard County1
- Jasper County1
- Madison County1
- Miami County1
- Montgomery County1
- Newton County1
- Tippecanoe County1
- Tipton County1
- Wabash County1
- Warren County1
- Wells County1
- White County1
- Lake County1
- Porter County1
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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.