Preliminary reports from the National Weather Service in Indianapolis show three possible tornadoes in Indiana on Friday, May 16. Here's a look at what happened. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.

Mid-May is living up to its reputation for severe weather as an active weather pattern brings the threat of strong tornadoes, damaging hail and intense, destructive wind gusts over multiple days.

A multiday outbreak of severe weather that began in the Midwest Friday is shifting to the Great Plains for the rest of the weekend and into early week.Tornadoes – some possibly strong – damaging hail and destructive straight-line winds are all potential threats.

More than two dozen people were killed and dozens more injured as powerful tornadoes and severe storms ripped across Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia and even parts of the Washington, D.

The office in Jackson, Kentucky, which was responsible for the area around London, Kentucky, had a March 2025 vacancy rate of 25%; the Louisville, Kentucky, weather service staff