Winter Storm Watches in Indiana
300 winter storm watches since 1986. 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 winter storm watches reaches back to 2005.
Winter Storm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Watches
- 300
- Busiest year
- 200836 winter storm watches
- Average year
- 14over 22 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
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Elkhart County59
- LaGrange County57
- Steuben County53
- Marshall County52
- Lake County51
- Porter County51
- Starke County50
- DeKalb County47
- Noble County47
- Allen County43
- Franklin County40
- Fulton County40
- Pulaski County40
- Whitley County40
- Blackford County37
- Delaware County37
- Madison County37
- Randolph County37
- Cass County37
- White County37
- Adams County36
- Hamilton County36
- Jay County36
- Tipton County36
- Wayne County36
- Wells County36
- Miami County36
- Grant County36
- Huntington County36
- Boone County35
- Clinton County35
- Dearborn County35
- Henry County35
- Howard County35
- Ripley County35
- Wabash County35
- Carroll County34
- Fayette County34
- Hancock County34
- Hendricks County34
52 more counties
- Marion County34
- Ohio County34
- Switzerland County34
- Tippecanoe County34
- Union County34
- Jasper County34
- Newton County34
- Johnson County33
- Montgomery County33
- Morgan County33
- Putnam County33
- Dubois County32
- Jefferson County32
- Owen County32
- Rush County32
- Shelby County32
- Warren County32
- Clay County31
- Fountain County31
- Parke County31
- Vermillion County31
- Harrison County30
- Orange County30
- Scott County30
- Vigo County30
- Washington County30
- Clark County29
- Crawford County29
- Perry County29
- Benton County29
- Vanderburgh County29
- Warrick County29
- Brown County28
- Floyd County28
- Greene County28
- Jennings County28
- Posey County28
- Spencer County28
- Bartholomew County27
- Decatur County27
- Jackson County27
- Knox County27
- Lawrence County27
- Martin County27
- Monroe County27
- Gibson County27
- Pike County27
- Daviess County26
- Sullivan County26
- Saint Joseph County10
- LaPorte County9
- Kosciusko County5
The latest winter storm watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 3:58 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | LOT | Lake, Porter | 35 hr |
| Jan 22, 2:21 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | IWX | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, Grant, Huntington and 4 more | 39 hr |
| Jan 22, 2:01 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | IND | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 33 more | 25 hr |
| Jan 21, 12:30 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | ILN | Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland and 2 more | 37 hr |
| Jan 21, 11:38 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | LMK | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson and 4 more | 26 hr |
| Jan 21, 3:46 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | PAH | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 33 hr |
| Jan 13, 4:25 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | IWX | LaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke | 9 hr |
Nearby
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.