1 tornado, 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 Jul 9, 2:59 PM EST, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 259 PM EST TUE JUL 9 2002 FORECAST FOCUS THIS AFTERNOON IS ON CHANCES FOR RAIN TONIGHT AND WED AS WELL AS TEMPS THRU THE SHORT TERM. AT 19Z A COLD FRONT WAS ACROSS EXTREME NRN IN AND EXTENDED INTO NRN IL. SCT TSRA WERE FORMING IN THE WARM UNSTABLE AIRMASS AHEAD OF THE FRONT. TEMPS ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA (FA) WERE IN THE UPPER 80S TO LOWER 90S WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE LOW TO MID 70S. MODELS IN FAIR AGREEMENT...BUT A COUPLE OF NOTABLE DIFFERENCES. AVN IS MORE AGRESSIVE IN KEEPING PRECIP IN FA ON WED WHILE ETA KEEPS FA DRY. AVN ALSO STRONGER WITH UPPER LOW IN LATER PERIODS. FEEL THAT THE BETTER RESOLUTION ETA IS THE WAY TO GO THIS RUN AS AVN MAY BE BROADBRUSHING PRECIP IN SHORT TERM. WILL THUS FOCUS ON ETA THIS RUN. COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THRU FA TONIGHT. BASED ON CURRENT RADAR AND POSITION OF FRONT FEEL THAT SCATTERED WORDING SHOULD HOLD FOR TONIGHT. WILL GO 50 POPS ALL AREAS TONIGHT. COULD BE A FEW STRAY SHRA BEHIND THE FRONT ALONG A WEAK CONVERGENCE ZONE...AND ETA HINTS AT THIS AS WELL. WILL KEEP CHC SHRA THROUGH THE EARLY PART OF THE NIGHT. MOS TEMPS ARE CLOSE AND WILL GENERALLY FOLLOW SINCE DEWPOINTS WILL NOT LOWER MUCH TONIGHT. ON WED DRIER AIR WILL BE SLOW TO WORK IN. WILL BE SOME CLOUDS IN THE MORNING THEN MORE SUN IN THE AFTN. NGM LOOKS TO DRY THINGS OUT TOO QUICKLY. FWC IS ALSO TOO AGRESSIVE WITH COOLER AIR. WILL GO CLOSER TO MAV HI TEMPS...WHICH ARE BETWEEN COLD FWC AND A LITTLE TOO WARM MET NUMBERS. DRIER AIR WILL THEN WORK IN FOR WED NIGHT AND THU. DRIEST AIR AND THUS COOLEST OVERNIGHT TEMPS WED NIGHT WILL BE IN NERN FA. WILL GO CLOSER TO MAV NUMBERS. ON THU WILL GO A LITTLE MORE OPTIMISTIC WITH MOSUNNY SKIES...BUT LATER SHIFTS WILL NEED TO WATCH AS MODELS UNSURE OF TRACK OF UPPER SYSTEM. WITH MORE SUNSHINE WILL LEAN TOWARD WARMER MET NUMBERS. .IND...NONE CS
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
601 PM EST TUE JUL 09 2002
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0558 PM GREENSBORO IN FUNNEL CLOUD
07/09/02 HENRY REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 78 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:05 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
National Weather Service survey confirmed an F0 touchdown. Minor damage to 3 homes. Trees down.
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