Weather Center: Indiana

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3 freeze warnings touch Indiana. 3 freeze warnings (touching Indiana)

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NWS alerts checked 07:32Z · Data: NOAA/NWS

Sources & update times

SPC Day 1 outlook issued 05:14Z · Data: NOAA/SPC

SPC Day 2 outlook issued 05:45Z · Data: NOAA/SPC

SPC Day 3 outlook issued 07:16Z · Data: NOAA/SPC

SPC discussions checked 07:32Z · Data: NOAA/SPC

SPC storm reports checked 07:30Z · Data: NOAA/SPC

WPC Day 1 outlook issued 00:56Z · Data: NOAA/WPC

WPC Day 2 outlook issued 16 Oct 19:17Z · Data: NOAA/WPC

WPC Day 3 outlook issued 16 Oct 19:17Z · Data: NOAA/WPC

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NWS warnings: Feed current; checked 07:32Z.

WPC selected forecast: Feed current; checked 07:30Z.

Checked means retrieved, not newly issued. Each graphic retains its issue, observation, initialization or valid time. Site publishing status is separate.

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WPC Day 3 Excessive Rainfall Outlook, Sunday 18 Oct

Source: WPC

Now, not forecast: Current warnings as of 07:32Z are drawn over the outlook for Sunday 18 Oct, the warnings hatched so the forecast shows through. They are in force now; the outlook is for its own period. Show the forecast alone

Forecast: WPC’s scale

1 · Marginal

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1 · Marginal
2 · Slight (not outlined)
3 · Moderate (not outlined)
4 · High (not outlined)

In force now

Freeze Warning 3

WPC Day 3 Excessive Rainfall Outlook, valid 18 Oct 12:00Z to 19 Oct 12:00Z, issued 16 Oct 19:17Z · Data: NOAA/WPC. Warnings and watches are as of 07:32Z (now), not for the outlook’s period.

Everything on the map, as a list

WPC Day 3 Excessive Rainfall Outlook: Marginal
Freeze Warning: Wayne; Fayette; Union; Franklin; Ripley; Dearborn; Ohio; Switzerland; Carroll; Gallatin; Boone; Kenton; Campbell; Owen; Grant; Pendleton; Bracken; Robertson; Mason; Lewis; Hardin; Mercer; Auglaize; Darke; Shelby; Logan; Union; Delaware; Miami; Champaign; Clark; Madison; Franklin; Licking; Preble; Montgomery; Greene; Fayette; Pickaway; Fairfield; Butler; Warren; Clinton; Ross; Hocking; Hamilton; Clermont; Brown; Highland; Adams; Pike; Scioto, until 18 Oct 13:00Z
Freeze Warning: Clinton; Howard; Boone; Tipton; Hamilton; Madison; Delaware; Randolph; Hancock; Henry; Shelby; Rush; Decatur; Montgomery; Hendricks, until 18 Oct 13:00Z
Freeze Warning: Lagrange; Steuben; Noble; De Kalb; Whitley; Northern Kosciusko; Southern Kosciusko; Allen; Miami; Wabash; Huntington; Wells; Adams; Grant; Blackford; Jay; Williams; Fulton; Defiance; Henry; Paulding; Putnam; Van Wert; Allen, until 18 Oct 13:00Z
Outside Indiana, for context: Freeze Warning: Winnebago; Boone; McHenry; Ogle; Lee; De Kalb; Kane, until 13:00Z
Outside Indiana, for context: Freeze Warning: Mitchell; Howard; Winneshiek; Allamakee; Floyd; Chickasaw; Fayette; Clayton; Wabasha; Dodge; Olmsted; Winona; Mower; Fillmore; Houston; Taylor; Clark; Buffalo; Trempealeau; Jackson; La Crosse; Monroe; Juneau; Adams; Vernon; Crawford; Richland; Grant, until 14:00Z
Outside Indiana, for context: Freeze Warning: Buchanan; Delaware; Dubuque; Benton; Linn; Jones; Jackson; Iowa; Johnson; Cedar; Clinton; Muscatine; Scott; Keokuk; Washington; Jefferson; Jo Daviess; Stephenson; Carroll; Whiteside; Rock Island, until 14:00Z
Outside Indiana, for context: Freeze Warning: Marquette; Green Lake; Fond Du Lac; Sheboygan; Sauk; Columbia; Dodge; Washington; Iowa; Dane; Jefferson; Waukesha; Lafayette; Green; Rock; Walworth, until 14:00Z
Outside Indiana, for context: Freeze Warning: Lucas; Wood; Ottawa; Sandusky; Erie; Lorain; Cuyahoga; Geauga; Ashtabula Inland; Hancock; Seneca; Huron; Medina; Summit; Portage; Trumbull; Wyandot; Crawford; Richland; Ashland; Wayne; Stark; Mahoning; Marion; Morrow; Holmes; Knox; Southern Erie; Crawford, until 18 Oct 13:00Z
Outside Indiana, for context: Freeze Warning: Fleming; Montgomery; Bath; Rowan, until 18 Oct 13:00Z
Outside Indiana, for context: Freeze Warning: Scott; Harrison; Fayette; Bourbon; Nicholas; Clark, until 18 Oct 13:00Z
Outside Indiana, for context: Freeze Warning: Tuscarawas; Carroll; Columbiana; Coshocton; Harrison; Jefferson; Muskingum; Guernsey; Belmont; Noble; Monroe; Mercer; Venango; Forest; Lawrence; Butler; Clarion; Jefferson; Beaver; Allegheny; Armstrong; Washington; Greene; Westmoreland; Westmoreland Ridges; Fayette; Fayette Ridges; Indiana; Higher Elevations of Indiana; Hancock; Brooke; Ohio; Marshall; Wetzel; Marion; Monongalia; Ridges of Eastern Monongalia and Northwestern Preston; Preston; Eastern Preston; Western Tucker; Eastern Tucker, until 18 Oct 13:00Z
Outside Indiana, for context: Freeze Warning: Greenup; Carter; Boyd; Lawrence; Perry; Morgan; Athens; Washington; Jackson; Vinton; Meigs; Gallia; Lawrence; Dickenson; Buchanan; Wayne; Cabell; Mason; Jackson; Wood; Pleasants; Tyler; Lincoln; Putnam; Kanawha; Roane; Wirt; Calhoun; Ritchie; Doddridge; Mingo; Logan; Boone; Clay; Braxton; Gilmer; Lewis; Harrison; Taylor; McDowell; Wyoming; Upshur; Barbour; Northwest Raleigh; Southeast Raleigh; Northwest Fayette; Southeast Fayette; Northwest Nicholas; Southeast Nicholas; Northwest Webster; Southeast Webster; Northwest Pocahontas; Southeast Pocahontas; Northwest Randolph; Southeast Randolph, until 18 Oct 13:00Z
Outside Indiana, for context: Freeze Warning: Ashe; Watauga; Tazewell; Smyth; Bland; Wythe; Grayson; Mercer; Summers; Monroe; Eastern Greenbrier; Western Greenbrier; Alleghany; Giles; Pulaski; Montgomery; Carroll; Floyd; Craig; Alleghany; Bath, until 18 Oct 13:00Z

Briefing details · Where, When, Main hazards

Sunday briefing for Indiana

Highest anywhere in Indiana: no risk area

This is the outlook, a forecast. Warnings in force here are listed above it and outrank it.

The highest category anywhere in the state, from its outline; not every point in it.

When: Outlook valid 18 Oct 12:00Z to 19 Oct 12:00Z: the period it covers, not when storms arrive. This period has not begun.
Prepare: No additional flood preparation is indicated by this outlook.
Rain and rivers: Expected rain: below WPC’s lowest contour (0.01 in) in Indiana, in WPC’s forecast for the 24 hours 18 Oct 12:00Z to 19 Oct 12:00Z. An amount for the area its contour covers, not a total for any one street.
Rain that fell: 0.5 to 0.75 in at its highest in Indiana, in the 24 hours to 07:00Z, by MRMS’s radar estimate over a grid about 5 km across: a measurement of the past, not corrected to rain gauges.
Rivers: no river gauge in Indiana is in flood or forecast to flood, by NWS’s lists read 07:25Z. Gauges are on larger rivers, not every creek: this is not a sign that nothing can flood.
Three sources, each its own window. None is a chance of flash flooding, which is WPC’s outlook above; a flash flood is a warning’s. Gauges in the Live tracker

Official discussion

WPC’s discussion held was issued 00:58Z, and the map 16 Oct 19:17Z: they are different issuances, so the text is not shown with this map until the matching one is read.

WPC’s outlook page

Forecast details

The chance that rainfall exceeds flash flood guidance within 40 km (25 miles) of a point during the valid period, as WPC defines its categories. Marginal is at least 5%, Slight 15%, Moderate 40% and High 70%. WPC’s categories are separate from SPC’s severe-storm categories, and an outlook category is not a warning: a Flash Flood Warning means flooding is happening or imminent. WPC’s definitions.

Coming days · Indiana

2026-10-17Severe storms: No severe area outlinedFlash flooding: No excessive-rainfall area outlined 2026-10-18Severe storms: No severe area outlinedFlash flooding: No excessive-rainfall area outlined 2026-10-19Severe storms: No severe area outlinedFlash flooding: Not yet available for this date

These are daily outlooks, not arrival times. Days 4–8 retain SPC’s predictability and potential-too-low wording in the dated outlook controls.

Severe storms

General thunderstorms at its highest nationally. SPC’s convective outlook, on its own scale.

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Recent reports

Reporting period: 12Z 16 Oct – 12Z 17 Oct

0 tornado · 0 wind · 0 hail in Indiana

Preliminary reports: a count of reports, not of storms. None reported is not proof that nothing happened.

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No watches or mesoscale discussions in Indiana. Watches, discussions and warnings in the Live tracker

Warnings in Indiana

3 warnings touching Indiana

3 warnings touch Indiana, most urgent first. A warning across a state line is counted here and in the other state.

NWS alerts checked 07:32Z · Data: NOAA/NWS

Since 06:33Z: no change in the warnings.

Warnings 3

Freeze Wayne; Fayette; Union; Franklin; Ripley; Dearborn; Ohio; Switzerland; Carroll; Gallatin; Boone; Kenton; Campbell; Owen; Grant; Pendleton; Bracken; Robertson; Mason; Lewis; Hardin; Mercer; Auglaize; Darke; Shelby; Logan; Union; Delaware; Miami; Champaign; Clark; Madison; Franklin; Licking; Preble; Montgomery; Greene; Fayette; Pickaway; Fairfield; Butler; Warren; Clinton; Ross; Hocking; Hamilton; Clermont; Brown; Highland; Adams; Pike; Scioto until 18 Oct 13:00Z crosses Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio Track: Freeze Warning, Wayne; Fayette; Union; Franklin; Ripley; Dearborn; Ohio; Switzerland; Carroll; Gallatin; Boone; Kenton; Campbell; Owen; Grant; Pendleton; Bracken; Robertson; Mason; Lewis; Hardin; Mercer; Auglaize; Darke; Shelby; Logan; Union; Delaware; Miami; Champaign; Clark; Madison; Franklin; Licking; Preble; Montgomery; Greene; Fayette; Pickaway; Fairfield; Butler; Warren; Clinton; Ross; Hocking; Hamilton; Clermont; Brown; Highland; Adams; Pike; Scioto
Freeze Clinton; Howard; Boone; Tipton; Hamilton; Madison; Delaware; Randolph; Hancock; Henry; Shelby; Rush; Decatur; Montgomery; Hendricks until 18 Oct 13:00Z Track: Freeze Warning, Clinton; Howard; Boone; Tipton; Hamilton; Madison; Delaware; Randolph; Hancock; Henry; Shelby; Rush; Decatur; Montgomery; Hendricks
Freeze Lagrange; Steuben; Noble; De Kalb; Whitley; Northern Kosciusko; Southern Kosciusko; Allen; Miami; Wabash; Huntington; Wells; Adams; Grant; Blackford; Jay; Williams; Fulton; Defiance; Henry; Paulding; Putnam; Van Wert; Allen until 18 Oct 13:00Z crosses Indiana and Ohio Track: Freeze Warning, Lagrange; Steuben; Noble; De Kalb; Whitley; Northern Kosciusko; Southern Kosciusko; Allen; Miami; Wabash; Huntington; Wells; Adams; Grant; Blackford; Jay; Williams; Fulton; Defiance; Henry; Paulding; Putnam; Van Wert; Allen

All 3 warnings touching Indiana, with their full text, in the Live tracker

65 warnings elsewhere in the country: the national list. Track Indiana live

Not an official warning service. Warnings and watches are the National Weather Service’s, outlooks and reports the Storm Prediction Center’s and the Weather Prediction Center’s (Data: NOAA/NWS, NOAA/SPC, NOAA/WPC). When a warning is issued for you, act on it, and use weather.gov or a NOAA Weather Radio for where you are.

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