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 May 13, 2:10 PM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 210 PM EST TUE MAY 13 2003 PRECIPITATION SHOULD HOLD OFF UNTIL TOMORROW. SHOWERS COULD ENTER WEST INDIANA LATE TONIGHT...BUT WILL HOLD THEM OFF UNTIL TOMORROW. A PERIOD OF THUNDERSTORMS APPEARS LIKELY FROM TOMORROW AFTERNOON THROUGH TOMORROW EVENING. A LARGE LOW PRESSURE WAS OVER NEW ENGLAND THIS AFTERNOON. COMPLEX LOW PRESSURE WAS OVER THE PLAINS STATES. A LARGE UPPER LOW WAS OVER NEW ENGLAND...AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WAS OVER THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND AN UPPER TROUGH WAS JUST EAST OF THE ROCKIES. CONVECTIVE COMPLEX OVER THE PLAINS WAS SINKING SOUTHEAST. MID LEVEL CLOUDS OVER ILLINOIS WERE PUSHING INTO SOUTHWEST INDIANA. MID LEVEL CLOUDS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH INTO THE FORECAST AREA TONIGHT. LOW LEVELS WERE QUITE DRY OVER THE AREA...SO FEEL NO MORE THAN SPRINKLES IN THE WEST PART OF THE AREA LATER TONIGHT. MODELS HAVE AN UPPER LOW DEVELOPING OVER THE DAKOTAS TONIGHT. A WARM FRONT PUSHES NORTHEAST INTO THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY. SHOWERS MAY DEVELOP NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT TOMORROW MORNING. THE WARM FRONT WILL BE IN THE AREA TOMORROW AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BECOME LIKELY SOUTHEAST OF THE LOWS NEAR THE WARM FRONT. LAPSE RATES ARE FORECAST TO BE AROUND 7 C/KM. THE FRONT SHOULD NOT ADVANCE NORTH MUCH WHILE THE UPPER LOW CONTINUES SOUTHEAST TOMORROW NIGHT AND TUESDAY. WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF SHOWERS GOING LATE TOMORROW NIGHT AND THURSDAY AS THE UPPER LOW APPROACHES. TEMPERATURES A BIT TRICKY TONIGHT. AIR IS DRY...BUT MID LEVEL CLOUDS WILL BE MOVING IN. WILL PROBABLY STAY NEAR GUIDANCE OVER THE SOUTHWEST...BUT GO A BIT COOLER NORTHEAST WHERE CLOUDS WILL ARRIVE LATE. CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION WILL HOLD BACK RISES TOMORROW...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE NORTH PART OF THE AREA. .IND...NONE DS
INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-141045- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 543 AM EST TUE MAY 13 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED PORTIONS OF EXTREME WESTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY. ACROSS THE REST OF CENTRAL INDIANA...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING URL... HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/IND (ALL LOWER CASE)
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Various heavy rain events from the 4th through the 14th caused lowland flooding along the East Fork of the White River at Bedford. The river crested at 21.73 feet (FS - 20.0) on the 15th.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5353956.