Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Indiana, 2025
26 tornado watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 26
- Busiest month
- March9 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 30, 20254 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 14, 8:34 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 10 hr |
| Mar 14, 9:02 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Clay, Daviess, Fountain, Greene, Knox and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 15, 2:36 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clark, Clinton and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 19, 1:16 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Clay, Daviess, Fountain, Greene, Knox and 11 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 19, 4:19 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 10 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 1:02 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 39 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:13 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:35 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Dubois, Fayette, Floyd and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:52 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 9 hr |
| Apr 2, 4:17 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 51 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 2, 7:22 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 2, 9:13 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Dearborn, Decatur, Delaware, Fayette, Franklin and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:41 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 5 hr |
| Apr 20, 10:48 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Posey, Vanderburgh | 4 hr |
| Apr 30, 5:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clay, Daviess, Decatur, Greene and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 15, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 4 hr |
| May 15, 9:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Cass, Elkhart, Fountain, Fulton, Grant and 18 more | 3 hr |
| May 16, 3:59 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clark, Clay and 49 more | 8 hr |
| May 16, 7:17 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 20, 3:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Knox, Perry, Pike and 4 more | 4 hr |
| May 20, 2:42 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Tippecanoe, Vermillion and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 20, 3:36 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 8 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:01 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 62 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 18, 3:07 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 28, 3:47 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass and 56 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Posey County12
- Vanderburgh County12
- Gibson County11
- Spencer County11
- Warrick County11
- Pike County10
- Daviess County9
- Fountain County9
- Knox County9
- Tippecanoe County9
- Vermillion County9
- Vigo County9
- Warren County9
- Benton County8
- Clay County8
- Greene County8
- Martin County8
- Montgomery County8
- Owen County8
- Parke County8
- Sullivan County8
- Dubois County8
- Putnam County7
- Bartholomew County7
- Brown County7
- Carroll County7
- Decatur County7
- Howard County7
- Jackson County7
- Jennings County7
- Lawrence County7
- Monroe County7
- Orange County7
- Perry County7
- Boone County6
- Clark County6
- Clinton County6
- Crawford County6
- Delaware County6
- Floyd County6
52 more counties
- Hamilton County6
- Hancock County6
- Harrison County6
- Hendricks County6
- Henry County6
- Jefferson County6
- Johnson County6
- Madison County6
- Marion County6
- Morgan County6
- Randolph County6
- Rush County6
- Scott County6
- Shelby County6
- Tipton County6
- Washington County6
- Newton County6
- Cass County5
- Fulton County5
- Grant County5
- Huntington County5
- Jasper County5
- Kosciusko County5
- Marshall County5
- Miami County5
- Pulaski County5
- Starke County5
- Wabash County5
- White County5
- Whitley County5
- Dearborn County4
- Fayette County4
- Franklin County4
- Ohio County4
- Ripley County4
- Switzerland County4
- Union County4
- Wayne County4
- Elkhart County4
- LaGrange County4
- Lake County4
- LaPorte County4
- Noble County4
- Porter County4
- Saint Joseph County4
- Steuben County4
- Adams County3
- Allen County3
- Blackford County3
- DeKalb County3
- Jay County3
- Wells County3
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.