Indiana, 2025Heavy Snow in Indiana, February 15 to 16, 2025
February 15 to 16, 2025 · NWS IND · 2 events in 2 counties and zones
0 reports in Lawrence and Monroe Counties. Travel impacts were generally minimal but a travel watch was issued for several counties south of Indianapolis.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
February's most impactful weather event was a rain to snow event over the 15th-16th, where a widespread 2.00-3.00 of precipitation fell across the region’s southern third, and the mainly 1.0-3.0 snowfall early on the 16th also included several 4.0-5.0 reports in Lawrence and Monroe Counties. Travel impacts were generally minimal but a travel watch was issued for several counties south of Indianapolis.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 15, 6:14 PM EST, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 6:14 PM EST, 1 hour 46 minutes before
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</html>Heavy Snow, Monroe
- When
- February 15, 8:00 PM EST to February 16, 2:00 PM EST
- Where
- Monroe forecast zone
- Reported by
- CoCoRaHS
- Coordinates
- 39.161, -86.523 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Snowfall ranged from 4.0 to 5.5 inches. A Travel Watch was issued for the county due to the impacts of snow on road conditions.
Heavy Snow, Bartholomew
- When
- February 15, 8:00 PM EST to February 16, 2:00 PM EST
- Where
- Bartholomew forecast zone
- Reported by
- CoCoRaHS
- Coordinates
- 39.206, -85.898 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Snowfall ranged from 3.5 to 5.0 inches.
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Kentucky, February 15 to 17, 20256 deaths · $130,000 · EF1 · 33 events
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in West Virginia, February 15 to 19, 20253 deaths · $15 million · 50 kt wind · 73 events
- Flash Flooding and Debris Flow in Kentucky, February 15 to 17, 20252 deaths · 1 injured · $4.3 million · 71 events
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Montana, February 15 to 18, 20253 deaths · 8 events
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Alabama, February 15 to 16, 20251 injured · $450,000 · EF2 · 96 events
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Tennessee, February 15 to 17, 2025$5.5 million · EF2 · 44 events
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Virginia, February 15 to 17, 20251 death · $225,000 · 34 events
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Tennessee, February 15 to 18, 2025$2.1 million · 1 in hail · 51 events
- Cold in Illinois, February 15, 20251 death · 1 event
- Cold in Arizona, February 15, 20251 death · 1 event
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Virginia, February 15 to 16, 2025$11 million · 10 events
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in West Virginia, February 15 to 17, 2025$2.2 million · 18 events
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1231374, 1231376.