Isolated thunderstorms with heavy rain moved across southern portions of central Indiana on the early morning of 17 June 2004.
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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 episode as NWS IND wrote it up.
Isolated thunderstorms with heavy rain moved across southern portions of central Indiana on the early morning of 17 June 2004.
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 Jul 16, 3:20 PM EST, 10 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 320 PM EST FRI JUL 16 2004 .DISCUSSION...MAIN PROBLEMS WILL BE THE CHANCES OF RAIN. COLD FRONT WILL BE MOVING THROUGH INDIANA TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED AHEAD OF THE FRONT. AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER NORTHERN INDIANA WITH ONLY ISOLATED STORMS OVER THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH. THE GFS LIFTED INDEXES DROP TO -4.5 IN NORTHERN INDIANA. THIS VORT MOVES TO THE EAST. WILL GO WITH LIKELY POPS IN THE NORTH CLOSER TO THE HIGHER VORT. SCATTERED STORMS IN THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH. TEMPS LAST NIGHT DROPPED TO A LITTLE BELOW GUIDANCE. WILL CONTINUE WITH THE TREND TONIGHT. ON SATURDAY THE FRONT MOVES SOUTH OF THE OHIO RIVER. THE AIR REMAINS FAIRLY MOIST WITH VORT OVER AREA. WILL CONTINUE WITH A CHANCE OF STORMS ON SATURDAY AS PREVIOUS FORECAST. TEMPS FROM MID 70S TO AROUND 80. THE MOISTURE AND VORT WILL REMAIN ENOUGH ON SATURDAY EVENING TO CONTINUE A CHANCE THEN. NORTHWEST FLOW CONTINUES OVER AREA ON SUNDAY. THIS FLOW USUALLY GIVES AS MUCH OR MORE CLOUDS THEN GUIDANCE HAS. AN AREA OF VORTICITY DOES SWING THROUGH DURING THE AFTERNOON. WILL BRING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA WITH THIS DISTURBANCE. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && HAINES
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 400 PM EST FRI JUL 16 2004 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-171100- BARTHOLOMEW-BOONE-BROWN-CARROLL-CLAY-CLINTON-DAVIESS-DECATUR- DELAWARE-FOUNTAIN-GREENE-HAMILTON-HANCOCK-HENDRICKS-HENRY-HOWARD- JACKSON-JENNINGS-JOHNSON-KNOX-LAWRENCE-MADISON-MARION-MARTIN-MONROE- MONTGOMERY-MORGAN-OWEN-PARKE-PUTNAM-RANDOLPH-RUSH-SHELBY-SULLIVAN- TIPPECANOE-TIPTON-VERMILLION-VIGO-WARREN- 323 PM EST FRI JUL 16 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL INDIANA TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. .DAY TWO THROUGH DAY SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA DURING THE DAY ON SATURDAY. THERE IS ANOTHER CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING ON SUNDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. AT THIS TIME...THE STORMS OVER THE WEEKEND ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING MAINLY OVER NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA. SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED OVER THE WEEKEND. HAINES
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 98 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:28 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous roads were closed due to high water. A car was stranded in high water as well.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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