Hail, Wells
- When
- September 15, 11:20 AM EST
- Where
- Wells County, 1 mi W of Keystone
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.600, -85.283
Hail in Indiana, September 15, 2003
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 15, 6:30 AM EST, 4 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 15, 6:30 AM EST, 4 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION TO ADD AVIATION DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 630 AM EST MON SEP 15 2003 AVIATION DISCUSSION FOR 06Z... DRYER AIR AND SUBSIDENCE WORKING INTO REGION BEHIND FRONT WITH SKIES CLEARING OUT. EXPECT SOME BKN VFR CEILINGS TO DEVELOP BY MID MORNING WITH COLD AIR ALOFT THEN MIXING OUT BY LATE DAY. VFR THROUGH TONIGHT WITH HIGH PRESSURE. PREVIOUS PUBLIC DISCUSSION 500MB TROF AXIS TO PASS OVER THE CWFA BY EARLY AFTERNOON. CURRENT RADAR SHOWS SPRINKLES AND DRIZZLE CONTINUING TO FORM OVER NORTHWEST INDIANA/NORTHEAST ILLINOIS AND SATELLITE SHOWS TOPS COOLING. WILL TIME THIS LIGHT PRECIP THROUGH EARLY THIS MORNING IN THE GRIDS. THEN THIS AFTERNOON...COLD POOL ALOFT MOVES OVERHEAD IN CONJUNCTION WITH 500MB TROF. 500MB TEMPS DOWN TO -23C GIVING 850-500 LAPSE RATES OF 7.1C/KM. LI DROPS TO -2. HOWEVER...THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT LACK OF SYNOPTIC MOISTURE...PWAT AROUND 0.70 INCHES AND TIME-HEIGHTS SHOWING LITTLE RH IN THE COLUMN...WITH PARTICULARLY DRY AIR SFC-900MB. CU RULES INDICATE VERY LITTLE CU THIS AFTERNOON. NEVERTHELESS...WITH COLD POOL MOVING ACROSS THE AREA NEAR PEAK HEATING...INSTABILITY SHOWERS ARE NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION SO WILL HAVE ISOLATED SHOWERS IN CENTRAL SECTIONS THIS AFTERNOON. MOISTURE IS SLIGHTLY BETTER NORTH...PRIMARILY IN MICHIGAN...SO WILL HAVE A 30 POP IN THE FAR NORTH. REST OF THE SHORT TERM LOOKS UNEVENTFUL AS HIGH PRESSURE MOVES FROM TEXAS TO NEW ENGLAND. WILL SIDE WITH COOLER FWC/MAV FOR MAX TEMPS...AND BLEND OF GUIDANCE FOR MINS. NO CHANGES TO THE OUTER PERIODS OF THE FORECAST. A .IWX... IN...NONE. MI...NONE. OH...NONE. 12/RES
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 15, 10:30 AM EST, 50 minutes before
INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-161000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1030 AM EST MON SEP 15 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN INDIANA...NORTHWEST OHIO AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM WITH SMALL HAIL WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. MORE NUMEROUS STORMS SHOULD BE NORTHEAST OF A LINE FROM BENTON HARBOR MICHIGAN TO MARION INDIANA. DAYTIME HEATING AND VERY COLD AIR ALOFT SHOULD TRIGGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES, OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/IWX
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 91 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:20 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood in Delaware, September 15 to 16, 2003
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- Waterspouts in Lake Michigan, September 15, 2003
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- Flash Flooding in Pennsylvania, September 15, 2003
- Flash Flooding in Maryland, September 15, 2003
- Frost and Freeze in California, September 15 to 16, 2003
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, September 15, 2003
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, September 15 to 16, 2003
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, September 15, 2003
- High Wind in Alaska, September 15, 2003
More
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Sources
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: 5375377.