Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Indiana, 2017
12 tornado watches in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest month
- March6 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 1, 20175 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 3:57 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 7 hr |
| Feb 28, 9:29 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 34 more | 12 hr |
| Feb 28, 10:51 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 6 hr |
| Feb 28, 11:29 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 41 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:03 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:57 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Dubois, Floyd, Franklin and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:03 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 42 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 28, 9:27 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 10 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 3:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Fountain and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 5, 12:08 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 44 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 5, 4:50 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clark County4
- Crawford County4
- Dubois County4
- Floyd County4
- Gibson County4
- Harrison County4
- Jefferson County4
- Orange County4
- Perry County4
- Pike County4
- Posey County4
- Scott County4
- Spencer County4
- Vanderburgh County4
- Warrick County4
- Washington County4
- Boone County4
- Carroll County4
- Clinton County4
- Fountain County4
- Franklin County4
- Howard County4
- Montgomery County4
- Tippecanoe County4
- Vermillion County4
- Warren County4
- Benton County3
- Jasper County3
- Newton County3
- Bartholomew County3
- Brown County3
- Clay County3
- Daviess County3
- Decatur County3
- Greene County3
- Hancock County3
- Hendricks County3
- Henry County3
- Jackson County3
- Jennings County3
52 more counties
- Johnson County3
- Knox County3
- Lawrence County3
- Marion County3
- Martin County3
- Monroe County3
- Morgan County3
- Owen County3
- Putnam County3
- Rush County3
- Shelby County3
- Sullivan County3
- Vigo County3
- Adams County3
- Blackford County3
- Dearborn County3
- Delaware County3
- Fayette County3
- Grant County3
- Hamilton County3
- Jay County3
- Madison County3
- Parke County3
- Randolph County3
- Ripley County3
- Tipton County3
- Union County3
- Wayne County3
- Wells County3
- Lake County2
- Porter County2
- Cass County2
- Fulton County2
- Miami County2
- Ohio County2
- Pulaski County2
- Switzerland County2
- White County2
- Allen County1
- DeKalb County1
- Elkhart County1
- Huntington County1
- Kosciusko County1
- LaGrange County1
- LaPorte County1
- Marshall County1
- Noble County1
- Saint Joseph County1
- Starke County1
- Steuben County1
- Wabash County1
- Whitley 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.