1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 31, 2:10 PM EST, 5 hours 17 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 210 PM EST SAT MAY 31 2003 MUCH COOLER WILL BE OVER THE FORECAST AREA TONIGHT. SKIES WILL CLEAR EARLY THIS EVENING. ALREADY COOL AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL GET COOLER OVERNIGHT. LOW PRESSURE WAS OVER PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON. HIGH PRESSURE WAS OVER THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. AN UPPER LOW PRESSURE WAS OVER LAKE ERIE. STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS COVERED THE FORECAST AREA. CLEARING TO THE NORTH WAS PROGRESSING SLOWLY...BUT SHOULD INCREASE EARLY THIS EVENING AS THE AIR BECOMES MORE STABLE. MODELS MOVE THE SURFACE AND UPPER LOW TO THE EAST COAST LATER TONIGHT. THE SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE IS FORECAST TO MOVE SOUTHEAST TOWARD THE AREA. THE HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE OVER THE AREA TOMORROW. CIRRUS CLOUDS SHOULD INCREASE IN THE AFTERNOON WHEN AN UPPER TROUGH MOVES SOUTHEAST INTO THE UPPER PLAINS STATES. CLOUDS SHOULD THICKEN AND LOWER A BIT ON SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY AS THE UPPER TROUGH CONTINUES SOUTHEAST. PREFER THE STRONGER AND SOMEWHAT SLOWER TROUGH SHOWN BY THE GFS. WILL PUT A CHANCE OF SHOWERS OVER THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE AREA MONDAY AFTERNOON...AND A CHANCE OF SHOWERS OVER ALL THE AREA MONDAY NIGHT. WILL TEND TOWARD THE COOLER MAV TONIGHT. AFTERNOON READINGS WERE QUITE COOL ALREADY. WILL STAY NEAR THE COOLER MAV TOMORROW WITH AN INCREASE IN CIRRUS CLOUDS...BUT WILL TREND TOWARD THE WARMER MET SUNDAY NIGHT BECAUSE OF THE CLOUDINESS. .IND...NONE. DS
INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-011015- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 520 AM EST SAT MAY 31 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY STRONG LOW PRESSURE OVER OHIO WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST. WINDS WILL GUST FROM 20 TO 30 MPH FROM LATE MORNING ON. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM LATE AFTERNOON TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THEN A CHANCE OF SHOWERS ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER IMFORMATION STATEMENT... SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rain fell on occasions toward the end of May causing minor flooding along the Wabash River at Lafayette that continued into early June. The river crested at 14.14 feet (Flood Stage is 11 feet) on June 1.
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, May 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: 5327873.