1 flood, 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 Jan 1, 4:22 AM EST, 4 hours 53 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED WATCH/ADVISORY INFO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 422 AM EST WED JAN 1 2003 VERY COMPLICATED FORECAST THIS CYCLE. FOCUS WILL BE ON PRECIP TYPE AND AMOUNTS ALL PERIODS. AT 09Z RAIN WAS ACROSS SERN 1/2 OF FORECAST AREA /FA/. TEMPS WERE NEAR FREEZING NWRN 1/2 OF FA AND ABOVE FREEZING ELSEWHERE. GFS IS MORE PROGRESSIVE THAN ETA/NGM THIS CYCLE. HPC PREFERS THIS SOLN AND WOULD TEND TO AGREE. HOWEVER ETA ENDED UP BEST MODEL LAST SYSTEM...SO WILL NOT DISCOUNT. THUS WILL GO WITH GFS WITH ETA BLENDED IN. TOUGH CALL ON WORDING IN FIRST PERIOD ACROSS CENTRAL SECTIONS OF FA. BELIEVE RAIN WILL BRIEFLY CHANGE TO FZRA BEFORE CHANGING BACK TO RA LATER THIS MORNING AS TEMPS WARM. NOT CONFIDENT THAT CONDITIONS WILL REACH ADVISORY CRITERIA...BUT WILL LEAVE ADVISORY AS IS. PRECIP SHOULD END BY EARLY AFTN AS DYNAMICS AND DEEPER MOISTURE PULL EAST. FWC LOOKS TOO WARM GIVEN CLOUDS AND PRECIP...WILL GO WITH MAV/ETA COMBO. TONIGHT THERE WILL BE A LULL IN PRECIP AS SMALL UPPER RIDGE BUILDS ACROSS FA. CHANCE FOR PRECIP RETURNS LATE TONIGHT ACROSS WRN 2/3 FA. MODEL SOUNDINGS INDICATE SLEET ACROSS MUCH OF FA WITH -SN ACROSS LAF AREA. SEE NO REASON TO DIFFER FROM GUIDANCE LOW TEMPS. ON THU GOOD Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE...UPPER DIVERGENCE...AND MOISTURE MOVE ACROSS FA. CATEGORICAL POPS STILL LOOK GOOD. PRECIP ACROSS SRN 1/2 OF FA MAY BE A MIX OF SLEET AND SNOW EARLY BEFORE CHANGING TO ALL SN. GARCIA METHOD ALONG WITH HPC WWE GRAPHICS INDICATE 3-6 INCHES ACROSS NWRN FA WITH 2-5 ACROSS REMAINDER OF FA DUE IN PART TO MIXED PRECIP. WITH WARNING CRITERIA NOT FAR AWAY...WILL KEEP WATCH GOING FOR THU. .IND...FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY THIS MORNING ROUGHLY EAST OF A LINE FROM DANVILLE IN TO KOKOMO...AND NORTH OF I-70. ...WINTER STORM WATCH ENTIRE FA FOR THURS.
INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-021100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 600 AM EST WED JAN 1 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE... FREEZING RAIN IS LIKELY THIS MORNING ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA...INCLUDING KOKOMO...ANDERSON...MUNCIE...AND INDIANAPOLIS. ROADS MAY BECOME SLICK THIS MORNING BEFORE TEMPERATURES RISE TO ABOVE FREEZING THIS AFTERNOON. FOR MORE DETAILS CONSULT THE FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY PRODUCT ISSUED THIS MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL INDIANA ON THURSDAY. ACCUMULATING SNOW WILL FALL ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA ON THURSDAY. THIS MAY MAKE TRAVELING DIFFICULT. SNOW WILL REMAIN LIKELY ON THURSDAY NIGHT WITH A CHANCE OF SNOW ON FRIDAY. MORE SNOW IS POSSIBLE DURING THE WEEKEND AS WELL. SLIGHT CHANGES IN THE PATH OR INTENSITY OF WINTER STORMS CAN RESULT IN MAJOR CHANGES TO YOUR LOCAL FORECAST. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WINTER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SNOW AND ICE AMOUNTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The East Fork White River crested at 15.29 feet on January 2, flooding lowland agricultural areas. The flood stage is 12.0 feet.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, January 2003
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: 5339214.