Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Indiana, May 2003
19 tornado watches in May 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 May 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 19
- Busiest day
- May 5, 20035 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Gibson County7
- Posey County7
- Spencer County6
- Vanderburgh County6
- Warrick County6
- Harrison County6
- Perry County6
- Pike County5
- Crawford County5
- Floyd County5
- Knox County5
- Sullivan County5
- Clay County5
- Fountain County5
- Parke County5
- Putnam County5
- Vermillion County5
- Vigo County5
- Clark County4
- Daviess County4
- Greene County4
- Martin County4
- Monroe County4
- Owen County4
- Warren County4
- Boone County4
- Hamilton County4
- Hendricks County4
- Marion County4
- Montgomery County4
- Orange County3
- Washington County3
- Dubois County3
- Brown County3
- Jackson County3
- Lawrence County3
- Scott County3
- Benton County3
- Cass County3
- Clinton County3
52 more counties
- Fulton County3
- Grant County3
- Howard County3
- Huntington County3
- Kosciusko County3
- Madison County3
- Miami County3
- Noble County3
- Tippecanoe County3
- Tipton County3
- Wabash County3
- White County3
- Whitley County3
- Morgan County3
- Jasper County3
- Newton County3
- Porter County3
- Adams County2
- Allen County2
- Blackford County2
- Carroll County2
- DeKalb County2
- Delaware County2
- Jay County2
- Wells County2
- Bartholomew County2
- Decatur County2
- Hancock County2
- Jefferson County2
- Jennings County2
- Johnson County2
- Rush County2
- Shelby County2
- Lake County2
- Elkhart County2
- LaGrange County2
- LaPorte County2
- Marshall County2
- Pulaski County2
- Saint Joseph County2
- Starke County2
- Steuben County2
- Dearborn County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Henry County1
- Ohio County1
- Randolph County1
- Ripley County1
- Switzerland County1
- Union County1
- Wayne 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.