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Tornado Watches in Indiana, 2023
17 tornado watches in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 17
- Busiest month
- March4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 5, 20233 tornado watches
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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 27, 11:06 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 39 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 27, 1:28 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Huntington and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:07 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 10 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:19 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ohio, Switzerland | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:36 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 7:59 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 73 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 11:09 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 5, 8:41 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 9:44 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 10:25 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clark, Clay and 51 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 25, 1:34 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 54 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:54 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 25, 4:18 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 12, 4:53 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 5 hr |
| Jul 12, 8:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | DeKalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, LaPorte, Marshall and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:46 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 32 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 6, 9:37 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 25 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bartholomew County6
- Brown County6
- Clay County6
- Decatur County6
- Monroe County6
- Owen County6
- Vigo County6
- Boone County5
- Carroll County5
- Clinton County5
- Delaware County5
- Hamilton County5
- Hancock County5
- Hendricks County5
- Henry County5
- Howard County5
- Johnson County5
- LaPorte County5
- Madison County5
- Marion County5
- Montgomery County5
- Morgan County5
- Parke County5
- Putnam County5
- Rush County5
- Shelby County5
- Starke County5
- Tippecanoe County5
- Tipton County5
- Kosciusko County5
- Marshall County5
- Ohio County5
- Switzerland County5
- Clark County5
- Crawford County5
- Dubois County5
- Floyd County5
- Gibson County5
- Harrison County5
- Jefferson County5
52 more counties
- Orange County5
- Perry County5
- Pike County5
- Posey County5
- Scott County5
- Spencer County5
- Vanderburgh County5
- Warrick County5
- Washington County5
- Daviess County5
- Greene County5
- Jackson County5
- Jennings County5
- Knox County5
- Lawrence County5
- Martin County5
- Sullivan County5
- Blackford County4
- Cass County4
- Fountain County4
- Fulton County4
- Grant County4
- Jay County4
- Miami County4
- Pulaski County4
- Randolph County4
- Vermillion County4
- Wabash County4
- Warren County4
- White County4
- Adams County4
- Allen County4
- Dearborn County4
- Fayette County4
- Franklin County4
- Huntington County4
- Ripley County4
- Union County4
- Wayne County4
- Wells County4
- Whitley County4
- DeKalb County4
- Elkhart County4
- LaGrange County4
- Noble County4
- Saint Joseph County4
- Steuben County4
- Jasper County3
- Newton County3
- Benton County2
- Lake County2
- Porter County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.