1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
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 Jun 25, 3:30 AM EST, 8 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 330 AM EST TUE JUN 25 2002 FORECAST FOCUS THIS MORNING IS ON CHANCES FOR RAIN THROUGHOUT THE FORECAST PERIOD. AT 08Z A FEW SHRA WERE ACROSS FAR SWRN FORECAST AREA (FA). HIGH PRESSURE WAS ACROSS THE FA AT THE SFC. UPPER LOW CONTINUED TO SPIN NEAR ARKLATEX REGION. TEMPS WERE IN THE LOWER 70S. MODELS IN DECENT AGREEMENT THIS RUN. AVN A LITTLE FASTER WITH FROPA AND DRYING THU NIGHT COMPARED TO ETA. PREFER SLOWER ETA SINCE CURRENT TREND IS TO SLOW FRONT DOWN AND NO HUGE PUSH BEHIND FRONT. WITH GOOD MOISTURE AND WARM TEMPERATURES LEADING TO INSTABILITY TODAY...EXPECT MORE SCATTERED TSRA ACROSS THE FA. MET/FWC/MAV 12 HOUR POPS ARE TOO HIGH TODAY GIVEN NO DECENT TRIGGERS. WILL GO HIGH CHANCE POPS...WITH HIGHEST CHANCE ACROSS SWRN FA (CURRENT SCT SHRA AND AREA IS A LITTLE CLOSER TO UPPER LOW). GIVEN MORE CLOUDINESS TODAY EXPECT TEMPS TO BE SLIGHTLY COOLER THAN YESTERDAY. MET TEMPS MUCH TOO COLD...WILL LEAN TOWARD FWC/MAV NUMBERS. TONIGHT EXPECT CONVECTION TO LINGER THROUGH THE EVENING...AND CANNOT RULE OUT A FEW OVERNIGHT SHRA. WILL THUS SMALL CHANCE KEEP POPS ALL NIGHT. WILL LEAN TOWARD HIGHER GUIDANCE GIVEN HIGH DEWPOINTS. ON WED UPPER LOW BEGINS TO PHASE WITH NEXT TROF TO OUR NW. STILL INSTABILITY ACROSS FA...SO MID RANGE CHC POPS WILL DO. AGAIN MET TEMPS TOO COLD. AS THE FRONT APPROACHES THU MORE SCT TSRA WILL DEVELOP. FRONT LOOKS TO BE SLOWER THAN PREVIOUS FORECAST...SO WILL LINGER POPS THU EVE ACROSS CENTRAL FA AND KEEP POPS IN ALL NIGHT THU NIGHT ACROSS SRN FA. .IND...NONE CS
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 32 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:10 UTC.
1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Trained spotter reported a brief F0 touchdown in a corn field. No damage.
Trees down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Indiana, 2002Warnings in Indiana, June 2002
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5301906, 5301907, 5301908.