Alert archive / Indiana

Weather alerts in Vermillion County, Indiana

3,408 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Vermillion County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
3,408
Warnings
1,332
Watches
538
Advisories
654
Busiest year
2011205 alerts
Average year
83over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 100% of tornado reports in Vermillion County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 18 minutes before, and 80% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20083167%0
200920100%0
201020100%0
201160100%0
2012110%0
20133167%1100%18 min
201510100%0
201610100%0
20182150%0
201920100%0
202110100%0
20256267%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200822959%1182%15 min
200913931%1164%12 min
201015660%0
2011301357%367%11 min
20128363%20%
20139189%10%
201415660%3100%18 min
20159544%1100%31 min
201611555%2100%18 min
201714657%2100%9 min
20185340%1100%30 min
2019201715%7100%21 min
2020131023%667%12 min
20216433%0
202214657%3100%11 min
202314936%1100%24 min
20249367%10%
2025201335%3100%27 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20088450%4100%117 min
20093167%0
20103167%0
201110100%0
2013110%0
20142150%1100%23 min
20153233%10%
201610100%0
201730100%0
20182150%0
201910100%0
202020100%0
2021110%0
202510100%0

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 20, 3:44 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningIND44 hr
Aug 20, 1:12 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIND33 min
Aug 16, 4:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIND35 min
Aug 15, 8:16 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningIND14 hr
Aug 15, 3:46 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningIND3 hr
Aug 15, 5:07 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningIND11 hr
Aug 14, 11:55 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningIND6 hr
Aug 14, 10:25 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningILX4 days
Aug 14, 8:06 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningIND4 hr
Aug 14, 7:45 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningIND4 hr
Aug 14, 4:56 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningIND4 hr
Aug 14, 3:37 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningIND5 hr

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.