1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Apr 2, 3:50 AM EST, 9 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 350 AM EST TUE APR 2 2002 UPPR AIR PTN XPCTD TO REMAIN PROGRESSIVE AND RATHER FLAT FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS AS A POS TILTED SHORT WV MOVS EWE ACRS THE GRTLKS TONIGHT AND WED. SFC FNT CURRENTLY OVR THE NRN SECTIONS OF THE STATE WL DRFT A BIT TO THE N AS A WV OF LO PRES MOVS ALONG THE FNT TODAY. CDFNT SHOULD PASS THRU THE CWA THIS AFT/EVEN. FCST FOCUS CENTERS ON POPS AND TEMPS. RADAR CURRENTLY SHOWING SOME LT SHWRS ALONG THE NRN ZONES NR THE FNT. FNT HAS PUSHED INTO THE FAR NRN ZONES AS WELL...BUT FNT SHOULD LIFT BACK TO THE N OVR THE NEXT SEVERAL HRS. MAY NEED TO KEEP A SCT POP EARLY THIS MORN IN THE N IF SHWRS ARE STILL AROUND AT ISSUANCE TIME...OTHERWISE DON/T SEE A TRIGGER FOR SIG PCPN TIL FROPA THIS AFT. APPEARS CDFNT WL ENTER THE FAR NW ZONES AROUND 18Z AND CLR THE SE ZONES AROUND 02Z. THERE IS SOME UPPR SUPPORT FOR THIS FNT AT 850MB...SO THINK PCPN WL BREAK OUT INVOF FNT LTR TODAY. THERE IS SOME CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL WITH SFC BASED LI/S DOWN TO ABOUT -2...ALTHOUGH MID LVL INSTABILITY LOOKS A LTL WEAK. WL GO WITH CATEGORICAL SHWRS/SCT TSTM POPS IN THE NRN ZONES AND LIKELY IN THE SRN ZONES... ALTHOUGH APPEARS THREAT WON/T REACH THE SRN ZONES TIL LT AFT. WL GO WITH CHC POPS IN THE NW ZONES FOR THE EVEN HRS AND HIER POPS FARTHER SE AS FNT EXITS THE AREA. PASSAGE OF UPPR TROF AND 850MB THERMAL TROF DON/T MOV THRU TIL WED...SO THINK THERE WL QUITE A BIT OF CLD COVER AROUND IN THE LTR PDS. BASED ON LO LVL TEMP PTNS...NGM MOS GUIDANCE LOOKS TOO COOL ON THE HIGHS TODAY AND A BIT TOO WARM ON THE LOWS TONIGHT. WL ADJUST THE HIGHS TODAY UP ABOUT 4-5 DEGS AND LOWER THE MINS TONIGHT BY 3-4 DEGS. REMAINDER OF PDS LOOK REASOANBLE. .IND...NONE. JAS
INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-021515- CENTRAL INDIANA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 810 AM EST TUE APR 2 2002 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF CENTRAL INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON... THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG A SOUTHEAST MOVING COLD FRONT THIS AFTERNOON. THE FRONT WILL EXTEND FROM NEAR TERRE HAUTE TO INDIANAPOLIS TO RICHMOND BY 3 PM EST. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE FRONT THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF CENTRAL INDIANA. THE COLD FRONT AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE TO ALONG THE OHIO RIVER BY 7 PM EST THIS EVENING WITH ONLY SCATTERED SHOWERS LINGERING OVER CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE STATE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. RPG
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:29 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck Harrison High School and caused miscellaneous electrical related problems.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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