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Tornado Watches in Indiana, 2020
11 tornado watches in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest month
- March6 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 8, 20202 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 6:21 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 8 hr |
| Mar 12, 12:44 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Dubois, Gibson, Orange, Perry, Pike and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 19, 5:06 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 19, 10:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Perry, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 7:34 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 7 hr |
| Mar 28, 9:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 5:24 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 7 hr |
| Apr 8, 7:24 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clark, Clay and 51 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 1:33 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 8 hr |
| May 23, 5:57 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Fulton, LaPorte, Marshall, Miami, Pulaski and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 10, 3:05 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Porter | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Posey County6
- Spencer County6
- Vanderburgh County6
- Warrick County6
- Gibson County5
- Pike County5
- Perry County5
- Crawford County4
- Dubois County4
- Orange County4
- Clark County3
- Floyd County3
- Harrison County3
- Jefferson County3
- Scott County3
- Washington County3
- Porter County2
- Bartholomew County1
- Boone County1
- Brown County1
- Carroll County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Daviess County1
- Dearborn County1
- Decatur County1
- Delaware County1
- Fayette County1
- Fountain County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hendricks County1
- Henry County1
- Howard County1
- Jackson County1
- Jennings County1
- Johnson County1
- Knox County1
37 more counties
- Lawrence County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Martin County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Ohio County1
- Owen County1
- Parke County1
- Putnam County1
- Randolph County1
- Ripley County1
- Rush County1
- Shelby County1
- Sullivan County1
- Switzerland County1
- Tippecanoe County1
- Tipton County1
- Union County1
- Vermillion County1
- Vigo County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Benton County1
- Jasper County1
- Lake County1
- Newton County1
- Cass County1
- Fulton County1
- LaPorte County1
- Marshall County1
- Miami County1
- Pulaski County1
- Saint Joseph County1
- Starke County1
- White 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.