Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Indiana, May 2002
3 tornado watches in May 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 May 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 1, 20022 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Daviess County2
- Dubois County2
- Gibson County2
- Knox County2
- Martin County2
- Pike County2
- Posey County2
- Vanderburgh County2
- Warrick County2
- Jackson County2
- Jennings County2
- Lawrence County2
- Orange County2
- Clay County1
- Fountain County1
- Greene County1
- Montgomery County1
- Owen County1
- Parke County1
- Perry County1
- Putnam County1
- Spencer County1
- Sullivan County1
- Vermillion County1
- Vigo County1
- Warren County1
- Bartholomew County1
- Brown County1
- Clark County1
- Crawford County1
- Dearborn County1
- Decatur County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Harrison County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Monroe County1
- Morgan 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.