Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Indiana, 2003
32 tornado watches in 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 32
- Busiest month
- May19 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 5, 20035 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 3:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass and 31 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 4, 5:25 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Daviess, Gibson, Knox, Pike, Posey, Spencer and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 7:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 41 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Decatur, Dubois and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 20, 4:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Perry | 5 hr |
| Apr 25, 4:40 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh | 4 hr |
| May 4, 10:40 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 5 hr |
| May 4, 11:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Orange, Perry and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 5, 3:50 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 6 hr |
| May 5, 7:35 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Harrison, Perry | 5 hr |
| May 5, 12:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 6 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 5:40 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Knox, Pike, Posey, Sullivan, Vanderburgh and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 11:50 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison, Perry, Posey and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 3:40 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Daviess, Fountain, Greene, Jackson and 14 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 5:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 6:05 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 30 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 8:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clay, Daviess, Decatur and 26 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 11:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blackford, Dearborn, Delaware, Fayette, Franklin, Henry and 7 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 8:05 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 6 hr |
| May 10, 8:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Posey | 5 hr |
| May 10, 9:10 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 40 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 11:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 11:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Harrison, Perry, Spencer | 6 hr |
| May 30, 7:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 6 hr |
| May 30, 9:10 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clay, Clinton and 41 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:45 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Carroll, Cass, Clinton and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 5:25 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Vermillion | 4 hr |
| Aug 31, 5:25 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clay, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 26, 4:50 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Clay, Clinton, Fountain, Greene, Hendricks and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 26, 8:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 47 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 12, 3:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Jay, Randolph and 3 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County10
- Putnam County10
- Sullivan County10
- Vigo County10
- Gibson County10
- Posey County10
- Spencer County10
- Harrison County10
- Greene County9
- Knox County9
- Monroe County9
- Owen County9
- Vermillion County9
- Vanderburgh County9
- Warrick County9
- Crawford County9
- Floyd County9
- Perry County9
- Daviess County8
- Fountain County8
- Hamilton County8
- Hendricks County8
- Lawrence County8
- Morgan County8
- Parke County8
- Pike County8
- Bartholomew County7
- Boone County7
- Brown County7
- Clinton County7
- Jackson County7
- Marion County7
- Martin County7
- Montgomery County7
- Orange County7
- Washington County7
- Clark County7
- Cass County6
- Howard County6
- Johnson County6
52 more counties
- Miami County6
- Tippecanoe County6
- Tipton County6
- Warren County6
- Jay County6
- Madison County6
- Randolph County6
- Dubois County6
- Carroll County5
- Newton County5
- White County5
- Adams County5
- Decatur County5
- Delaware County5
- Fayette County5
- Franklin County5
- Grant County5
- Huntington County5
- Jennings County5
- Rush County5
- Shelby County5
- Union County5
- Wabash County5
- Wayne County5
- Wells County5
- Scott County5
- Benton County4
- Blackford County4
- Hancock County4
- Henry County4
- Ripley County4
- Dearborn County4
- Jefferson County4
- Fulton County4
- Kosciusko County4
- Noble County4
- Whitley County4
- Jasper County4
- Porter County4
- Ohio County3
- Switzerland County3
- Allen County3
- DeKalb County3
- Lake County3
- Elkhart County3
- LaGrange County3
- LaPorte County3
- Marshall County3
- Pulaski County3
- Saint Joseph County3
- Starke County3
- Steuben County3
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.