1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 24, 2:25 PM EST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 225 PM EST FRI MAY 24 2002 FRONTAL SYS CURRENTLY PRESSING THRU THE NRN CWA WITH SCT CONVECTION AHEAD OF FNT. FCST FOCUS CENTERS ON POPS THRU SAT NIGHT. FNT XPCTD TO STALL OUT OVR THE SWRN SECTIONS OF THE STATE TONIGHT BEFORE PUSHING RAPIDLY BACK TO THE N SAT MORN AS AN AREA OF LO PRES MOVES INTO THE SRN GRTLKS RGN. TRAILING CDFNT SHOULD PASS THRU THE CWA LT SAT AFT/EVEN. IN THE NR TERM...MODEST LO LVL JET PROGGED TO NOSE INTO THE SRN IL/SW IND AREA LTR THIS EVEN. THIS COMBINED WITH A PLUME OF STEEPER MID LVL LAPSE RATES AND BOUNDARY IN THE AREA SHOULD CAUSE MORE WIDESPREAD PCPN TO BREAK OUT LTR THIS EVEN OVR THE SRN IL/SWRN IND AREA AND MOV ACRS THE CWA OVERNIGHT. WL GO WITH HI POPS ALL AREAS. WL MENTION MAINLY LT TO COVER SCT ONGOING ACTVTY. IN THE LTR PDS...MAIN LIFT MOVES OFF TO THE NE DURG SAT MORN...SO PCPN SHOULD TAPER OFF DURG THE MORN HRS. TRAILING CDFNT SHOULD MOV INTO THE NW ZONES BY EARLY/MID AFT. LIFT WITH THE CDFNT NOT TOO IMPRESSIVE...HOWEVER AMS WL BE QUITE UNSTABLE WITH LI/S TO ABOUT -6...SO THINK AT LEAST SOME ACTVTY WITH ACCOMPANY CDFNT. WL GO WITH LIKELY POPS KEEPING IN MIND THERE SHOULD BE SOME DRY HRS AROUND MIDDAY. WL KEEP IN SOME POPS OVR THE SERN TWO THIRDS OF CWA FOR SAT EVEN UNTIL FROPA. OTHERWISE...IMPROVING WX FOR SUN WITH SFC HI PRES BLDG IN. NGM MOS GUIDANCE LOOKS A CATEGORY OR SO TOO WARM IN THE LTR PDS CONSIDERING LO LVL THICKNESSES PROGGED BY THAT TIME. OTHERWISE... GUIDANCE NUMBERS LOOK REASONABLE. .IND...NONE. JAS
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 30 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:02 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree fell on a power pole, knocking down the pole.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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