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Tornado Watches in Indiana, May 2025
7 tornado watches in May 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 May 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- May 16, 20253 tornado watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fountain County3
- Tippecanoe County3
- Vermillion County3
- Warren County3
- Gibson County3
- Pike County3
- Posey County3
- Spencer County3
- Vanderburgh County3
- Warrick County3
- Benton County2
- Carroll County2
- Howard County2
- Daviess County2
- Dubois County2
- Knox County2
- Montgomery County2
- Parke County2
- Perry County2
- Vigo County2
- Jasper County1
- Lake County1
- Newton County1
- Porter County1
- Cass County1
- Elkhart County1
- Fulton County1
- Grant County1
- Huntington County1
- Kosciusko County1
- LaGrange County1
- LaPorte County1
- Marshall County1
- Miami County1
- Noble County1
- Pulaski County1
- Saint Joseph County1
- Starke County1
- Steuben County1
- Wabash County1
46 more counties
- White County1
- Whitley County1
- Bartholomew County1
- Boone County1
- Brown County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Crawford County1
- Decatur County1
- Delaware County1
- Floyd County1
- Greene County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Harrison County1
- Hendricks County1
- Henry County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Jennings County1
- Johnson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Martin County1
- Monroe County1
- Morgan County1
- Orange County1
- Owen County1
- Putnam County1
- Randolph County1
- Rush County1
- Scott County1
- Shelby County1
- Sullivan County1
- Tipton County1
- Washington County1
- Dearborn County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Ohio County1
- Ripley County1
- Switzerland County1
- Union County1
- Wayne County1
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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.