Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Indiana, 2008
30 tornado watches in 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 30
- Busiest month
- June13 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 4, 20084 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 3:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 7:01 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaGrange, LaPorte and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 7, 9:22 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Grant, Huntington and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:26 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 10 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 8, 10:07 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dearborn, Franklin, Jefferson, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 29, 6:07 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 113 min |
| Feb 5, 4:09 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 9 hr |
| Feb 5, 8:08 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 38 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 18, 6:19 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 11 hr |
| Apr 10, 6:03 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 12:58 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 18 more | 8 hr |
| May 2, 11:44 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 9 hr |
| May 2, 9:13 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton and 15 more | 3 hr |
| May 30, 2:56 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Fountain and 21 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:31 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Daviess, Gibson, Greene, Knox, Martin and 10 more | 10 hr |
| Jun 3, 12:08 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford and 40 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 8:42 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 40 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 41 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:06 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 5 hr |
| Jun 4, 9:18 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dearborn, Ohio, Switzerland | 7 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:02 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, DeKalb, Elkhart and 24 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 6, 2:05 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 5 hr |
| Jun 6, 2:18 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Huntington and 13 more | 10 hr |
| Jun 6, 5:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 38 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 7, 3:01 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 9:03 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lake | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:04 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lake, Porter | 7 hr |
| Jul 30, 6:21 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 5 hr |
| Sep 13, 2:46 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Carroll, Cass and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 27, 1:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Posey County9
- Vanderburgh County9
- Warrick County9
- Lake County8
- Gibson County8
- Pike County8
- Spencer County8
- Parke County8
- Vermillion County8
- Benton County7
- Jasper County7
- Newton County7
- Porter County7
- Cass County7
- Fulton County7
- Marshall County7
- Pulaski County7
- Starke County7
- White County7
- Putnam County7
- Vigo County7
- Elkhart County6
- Kosciusko County6
- LaGrange County6
- LaPorte County6
- Miami County6
- Noble County6
- Saint Joseph County6
- DeKalb County6
- Steuben County6
- Dearborn County6
- Ohio County6
- Clay County6
- Daviess County6
- Greene County6
- Hancock County6
- Hendricks County6
- Knox County6
- Marion County6
- Martin County6
52 more counties
- Owen County6
- Sullivan County6
- Carroll County6
- Clinton County6
- Fountain County6
- Howard County6
- Montgomery County6
- Tippecanoe County6
- Tipton County6
- Warren County6
- Adams County5
- Allen County5
- Huntington County5
- Wabash County5
- Wells County5
- Whitley County5
- Franklin County5
- Ripley County5
- Switzerland County5
- Union County5
- Bartholomew County5
- Brown County5
- Decatur County5
- Jackson County5
- Jennings County5
- Johnson County5
- Lawrence County5
- Monroe County5
- Morgan County5
- Rush County5
- Shelby County5
- Boone County5
- Hamilton County5
- Madison County5
- Blackford County4
- Grant County4
- Jay County4
- Jefferson County4
- Fayette County4
- Henry County4
- Delaware County4
- Randolph County4
- Clark County3
- Crawford County3
- Dubois County3
- Floyd County3
- Harrison County3
- Orange County3
- Scott County3
- Washington County3
- Wayne County3
- Perry County2
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.