Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, May 25, 2002

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1125 AM EST SAT MAY 25 2002

WILL BE UPDATING AT LEAST THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES FOR WARMER HIGHS
THIS AFTERNOON. WRMFNT LOOKS TO LIE FROM NORTH OGF KGUS BACK TO THE
LOW OVER KORD. MESOETA FORECASTED DRY SLOT WORKING IN DURING THE
LATE MORNING AND EARLY AFTN HOURS AND SEEMS TO BE EVOLVING WITH
TEMPS IN THE WARM SECTOR IN TO THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 70S IN
CNTRL/SOUTHERN IL AND IN. THINKING 75 TO 80 ACROSS THE SOUTH. NORTH
OF THE FRONT...TEMPS WILL BE TRICKY IN THE NORTH AS CLOUD CVR WILL
LINGER WITH THE AREA POSSIBLY GETTING INTO THE WARM SECTOR FOR AN
HOUR OR 2 LATER THIS AFTERNOON. WILL LEAVE THEIR TEMPS ALONE FOR
NOW. PRE FRONTAL LINE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS TO MOVE THROUGH OVER THE
NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. SEEM TO BE SHOWING A WEAKENINIG TREND PAST
SEVERAL SCANS. COLD FRONT LOOKS TO LIE BETWEEN KPIA AND KILX. VIS SAT
HINTS AT POSSIBLY A NEW LINE OF CONVECTIONSDEVELOPING ALONG THE MAIN
FRONT AND THIS WOULD LIKELY BE THE MAIN THREAT FOR ANY SEVERE
WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE AREA. THINKING GREATEST THREAT FOR
THE CWA WILL GENERALLY BE EITHER SIDE AND EAST OF I-69 FROM MID
AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVE(PER RECENT SWOMCD).

.IWX...NONE.

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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1142 AM EST SAT MAY 25 2002

...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY
THIS EVENING...

AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN THIS
AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE NORTHEAST TONIGHT. A WARM FRONT WILL MOVE
INTO EXTREME SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN BY LATE AFTERNOON. ALONG AND
AHEAD OF THIS FRONT...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED. HOWEVER...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED WITH THIS FRONT.

A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH NORTHERN INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON AND
NORTHWESTERN OHIO EARLY THIS EVENING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THIS FRONT IN EASTERN ILLINOIS AND WESTERN
INDIANA AND MOVE EAST. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME
SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE GREATEST THREAT. THE
BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL OCCUR BETWEEN 3 AND 8 PM
GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 69.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY
THIS EVENING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER
DETAILS OR UPDATES.

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