Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Indiana, 2002
16 tornado watches in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 16
- Busiest month
- April5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- November 10, 20024 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 29, 12:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 29, 4:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 21, 2:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Vigo | 4 hr |
| Apr 24, 2:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fountain, Vermillion | 6 hr |
| Apr 24, 3:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 10:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Knox, Posey, Vanderburgh | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 10:45 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ohio, Switzerland | 5 hr |
| May 1, 2:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Daviess, Dubois, Fountain, Gibson, Greene and 16 more | 4 hr |
| May 1, 3:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Decatur and 20 more | 5 hr |
| May 1, 10:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Jackson, Jennings, Knox and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 20, 11:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 20, 12:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Clinton, DeKalb and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 10, 12:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Dubois, Gibson, Orange, Perry, Pike and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 10, 1:35 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark | 5 hr |
| Nov 10, 12:10 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Brown, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, Delaware and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 10, 3:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Decatur and 27 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Gibson County9
- Pike County9
- Posey County9
- Vanderburgh County9
- Dubois County8
- Orange County8
- Warrick County8
- Clark County7
- Crawford County7
- Knox County7
- Martin County7
- Perry County7
- Spencer County7
- Daviess County6
- Floyd County6
- Harrison County6
- Jackson County6
- Jennings County6
- Lawrence County6
- Washington County6
- Brown County5
- Greene County5
- Scott County5
- Bartholomew County4
- Monroe County4
- Sullivan County4
- Jefferson County4
- Shelby County4
- Vigo County3
- Fountain County3
- Vermillion County3
- Ohio County3
- Switzerland County3
- Clay County3
- Owen County3
- Decatur County3
- Fayette County3
- Franklin County3
- Johnson County3
- Morgan County3
36 more counties
- Ripley County3
- Rush County3
- Union County3
- Henry County3
- Randolph County3
- Montgomery County2
- Parke County2
- Putnam County2
- Warren County2
- Dearborn County2
- Boone County2
- Clinton County2
- Delaware County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hancock County2
- Hendricks County2
- Jay County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Tipton County2
- Wayne County2
- Adams County1
- Allen County1
- Blackford County1
- DeKalb County1
- Grant County1
- Howard County1
- Huntington County1
- LaGrange County1
- Miami County1
- Noble County1
- Steuben County1
- Wabash County1
- Wells County1
- Whitley County1
- Tippecanoe County1
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. Rebuilt daily.