1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 11, 2:24 AM EST, 9 hours 6 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 224 AM EST TUE JUN 11 2002 THE TROPICAL PLUME HAD SHIFTED EAST AND WAS ACROSS INDIANA AND EASTERN IL. WEAK EMBEDDED SHORTWAVES IN THE RELATIVE LIGHT SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT HAVE BEEN TRIGGERING STORMS THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS...ESPECIALLY IN THIS PLUME DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE ETA AND MESO ETA HAVE BEEN GENERATING TOO MUCH PCPN... ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT. AVN APPEARS TO DO REASONABLY WELL...EXCEPT FOR RESOLUTION OF INDIVIDUAL SMALL SHORTWAVES AND GENERATING TOO MUCH PCPN AT NIGHT WITH THESE SYSTEMS THAT ARE AWAY FROM THE MORE SIGNIFICANT SHORTWAVE TO THE WEST. THE 12Z RUN OF THE 22KM ETA WITH KAIN FRITSCH PARAMETERIZATION AGAIN HAS DONE A GOOD JOB WITH CONVECTIVE PCPN. EXPECT TSTMS TO DEVELOP AGAIN TODAY...ESPECIALLY WITH DAYTIME HEATING. STORMS SHOULD FORM IN A RATHER UNORGANIZED PATTERN AND BECOME MORE NUMEROUS DURING THE AFTERNOON. ONGOING FORECAST WORDING OF LIKELY SHOULD HANDLE STORM CHANCES. WILL BUMP UP TO CATEGORICAL WORDING TONIGHT AS SIGNIFICANT SHORTWAVE APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURS...FRONT SHOULD GRADUALLY PUSH SOUTHEAST AS UPPER LOW APPROACHES THE GREAT LAKES. THE NGM APPEARS TO BE ADVERTISING THE NORTHERN BIAS WITH THE SFC LOW TOO FAR NORTH. BOTH AVN AND ETA INDICATE FROPA BASICALLY DURING THE DAY WEDNESDAY. AVN POP NEAR CATEGORICAL OF 75 PERCENT AT LIMA AND APPEARS ON TRACK...SO WILL RAISE POPS ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTHERN AREAS. AS FOR TEMPERATURES...HAVE REJECTED THE NGM WITH THE APPARENT NORTHERN BIAS AND TOO HIGH MOS TEMPS AT SBN DAY 2. MAV MOS APPEARS ON TRACK AND AM PLANNING TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS MAINLY FOR TIMING OF CLOUD COVER AND PCPN. LTST AVN NOW DEPICTING AT LEAST TWO SRN CANADA WAVES MOVING INTO THE GRTLKS THIS WEEKEND. WL INTRO POPS ON SAT AND PLAY THE HIR POPS IN THE GRIDS ON SAT. OTHERWISE FEW CHANGES. .IWX...NONE. SKIP/MURPHY
INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-111815- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 532 AM EST TUE JUN 11 2002 WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN INDIANA...NORTHWEST OHIO AND FAR SOUTHERN MICHIGAN TODAY AND TONIGHT. THESE SYSTEMS WILL TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS...BUT THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. HOWEVER...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE DUE TO THE HIGH WATER CONTENT IN THE ATMOSPHERE. A COOL FRONT WILL BRING A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES.
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 51 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:29 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Newspaper report of large tree limbs down on a home and a car. Slight damage to roof and gutter of home with roof and windshield damage to car.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, June 2002
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