Tornado Watch issued until 8 p.m. as storms move through Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS — Much of central Indiana is now under a Tornado Watch until 8 p.m. We're monitoring west-central Indiana for storm initiation along an approaching front/wind-shift that will trigger storm development in the coming hours.

Watching this zone closely for storm new storm initiation.

Cell developing west of Monticello will move quickly northeast. Additional southward development expected over next 90 minutes #13weather

— Sean Ash (@SeanAshWX) June 25, 2023

While not everyone in central Indiana will be impacted by severe storms this afternoon, all of central Indiana should be Weather Aware until this front passes by 8 p.m.

Please know that any storms that do develop will intensify rapidly and have the potential of producing strong tornadoes, 2"+ diameter hail, and 70+ mph gusts. There will likely be some significant storms – especially ones that can remain discrete before merging into clusters.

The severe threat ends west-to-east between and 8 p.m. and we'll transition to a much cooler set-up overnight into Monday. Updates to come.