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Tornado Watches in Indiana, 2026

24 tornado watches in 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
24
Busiest month
June9 tornado watches
Busiest day
March 10, 20262 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 19, 1:20 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 43 more10 hr
Mar 10, 4:57 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter10 hr
Mar 10, 7:45 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCElkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaGrange, LaPorte, Marshall and 4 more6 hr
Mar 11, 6:22 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Clark and 54 more6 hr
Mar 11, 11:59 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Ohio and 5 more7 hr
Mar 15, 4:57 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCGibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick7 hr
Mar 15, 8:26 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clark, Clay and 42 more6 hr
Mar 26, 4:52 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCFayette, Union, Wayne6 hr
Apr 2, 6:28 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCElkhart, LaPorte, Saint Joseph3 hr
Apr 3, 6:18 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Cass, Fountain, Jasper, Newton and 4 more4 hr
Apr 14, 8:54 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCElkhart, LaGrange, LaPorte, Saint Joseph, Steuben6 hr
Apr 17, 4:31 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter8 hr
Apr 17, 10:44 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Carroll, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Elkhart and 19 more3 hr
Apr 27, 3:46 PM EDTTornado Watch PDSSPCGibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick7 hr
Apr 27, 10:48 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCGibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick7 hr
Jun 11, 2:57 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter7 hr
Jun 11, 8:08 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 29 more6 hr
Jun 17, 5:37 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass and 41 more9 hr
Jun 17, 10:13 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Crawford, Dearborn, Dubois, Fayette, Floyd and 18 more7 hr
Jun 18, 4:39 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Perry6 hr
Jun 21, 2:28 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCGibson, Knox, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Sullivan and 3 more9 hr
Jun 21, 5:43 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 32 more8 hr
Jun 21, 9:19 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCOhio, Switzerland5 hr
Jun 26, 4:57 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCPosey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick3 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

52 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 10, 20262tornado watches
  2. March 11, 20262tornado watches
  3. June 18, 20262tornado watches
  4. June 21, 20262tornado watches
  5. February 19, 20261tornado watches
  6. March 15, 20261tornado watches
  7. March 16, 20261tornado watches
  8. March 26, 20261tornado watches
  9. April 2, 20261tornado watches
  10. April 3, 20261tornado watches
  11. April 15, 20261tornado watches
  12. April 17, 20261tornado watches

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.