Name: Hail and Damaging Wind in Indiana, June 26, 2002
Start: 2002-06-26T20:05
End: 2002-06-26T21:15
Location: Indiana

Where it happened

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Heat and drought
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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.

What forecasters said that day

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 Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 26, 2:01 PM EST, 6 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:01 PM EST, 6 hours 4 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
201 PM EST WED JUN 26 2002

FORECAST PROBLEM IS CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING INTO
TONIGHT.

SHORT TERM...
CURRENT ANALYSIS WAS SHOWING THE LOW CENTERED OVER EASTERN QUEBEC
WITH THE COLD FRONT SOUTH-WESTWARD TO KANSAS. SKIES WERE CLEARING
FROM WEST TO EAST WITH SOME CU DEVELOPING IN THE WESTERN
HALF OF OUR CWA. TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE LOWER 80S WITH DEWPOINTS IN
THE UPPER 60S TO LOWER 70S. ETA/AVN DID NOT CHANGE MUCH FROM THE
26/00Z TO 26/12Z RUNS. ETA/AVN/NGM ALL ARE FAIRLY SIMILAR FOR THE
NEXT 24 TO 36 HOURS. SO WENT WITH A BLEND OF ALL THREE. ALL THREE
MODELS WERE SHOWING SOME INSTABILITY TONIGHT. K-INDICES OF 30-35...TT
OF GENERALLY LESS THAN 50...LIS -2 TO -6...AND SHOWALTERS OF 0 TO
-3. NGM WAS THE ODDBALL HERE WITH K-INDEX OF 35-40...TT OF GREATER
THAN 50...AND SHOWALTERS OF -4 TO -5. DUE TO THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED
INSTABILITY...AVN/ETA SHOWING SOME OMEGA TONIGHT...AND AVN/NGM/ETA
MOS SHOWING 60 TO 80 POP...WILL GO WITH THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT WITH
THE POSSIBILITY THERE FOR SOME STRONG/SEVERE STORMS. THE SHOWERS AND
STORMS WILL BE LINGERING AROUND FOR THE MORNING HOURS POSSIBLY MID-
DAY BUT WILL DIE OFF FOR THE AFTERNOON AS THE MODELS SHOW DRIER AIR
MOVING INTO OUR CWA INTO SATURDAY. DONT FORESEE HAVING TO CHANGE
MUCH IN THE CURRENT FORECAST. THE MOS TEMPS ARE IN A GOOD AGREEMENT
WITH CURRENT FORECAST.

EXTENDED FORECAST...
RETURN TO HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS LOOKS TO BE IN STORE FOR MUCH OF
NEXT WEEK. HIGH PRESSURE WILL DOMINATE CONDITIONS INTO MONDAY. WEAK
COLD FRONT WILL SLOWLY APPROACH THE REGION ON TUES. LOOKS SIMILAR IN
SET UP TO SITUATIONS WE ARE IN NOW WITH VERY LITTLE IN THE WAY OF
DYNAMICS/COLD AIR TO PUSH THE FRONT VERY FAST. AS A RESULT...WITH
DEEP MSTR AND WARM TEMPS...INSTABILITY EACH AFTN/EVE AND LOCATION OF
THE BOUNDARY WOULD POINT TOWARDS CHC OF STORMS TUES AND WEDS.
FOLLOWED MANUAL PROGS FOR TEMPS...WITH GUIDANCE NUMBERS NOT FAR OFF
FROM THOSE VALUES.

.IWX...NONE.

LOTHAMER/FISHER

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 66 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:04 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Allen

When: June 26, 8:05 PM EST
Where: Allen County, New Haven
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 41.067, -85.017

Thunderstorm Wind, Allen

When: June 26, 9:15 PM EST
Where: Allen County, 2 mi SW of Ft Wayne
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 41.050, -85.167

Allen county sheriff reported numerous power line down on the southwest side of Fort Wayne.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

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Sources

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: 5301172, 5301173.