4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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 Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 6, 6:42 PM EST, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 642 PM EST TUE JUL 6 2004 .AVIATION... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE CURRENTLY MAKING THEIR WAY TOWARDS SBN. THERE ARE SOME STORMS WELL SOUTHWEST OF FWA AND WILL TAKE A LITTLE LONGER TO REACH FWA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEASTWARD. WITH BOTH SBN AND FWA BEING UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...STORMS DO HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE. ANY STORM ACTIVITY SHOULD BE OVER BY/AROUND MIDNIGHT AND THEN LOW VFR FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT WITH PARTLY CLOUDY VFR SKIES FOR WEDNESDAY. WITH THIS STORM ACTIVITY AROUND THE AREA...WINDS CAN BE GUSTY. && .PREV DISCUSSION... SHORT TERM... UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE IN PLACE BUT LACKING TRIGGER THIS AFTERNOON. AS SURFACE TEMPERATURES NEAR CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 80S SCT TSRA COULD BEGIN TO FIRE. MAIN ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY OCCUR WITH SURFACE FRONT AND UPPER SHORT WAVE LATER THIS EVENING. AS THIS WAVE APPROACHES WE WILL SEE BETTER WIND PROFILES AS RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF UPPER JET APPROACHES. HOWEVER...BEST INSTABILITY WILL BE WANING WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING BUT WITH UPPER DYNAMICS AND SURFACE DEWPOINTS STILL AROUND 70 THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STILL EXISTS WITH WIND DAMAGE THE MAIN THREAT. FRONT PASSES THROUGH TONIGHT WITH LINGERING TSRA CHANCES EAST WED AM. EXPECT SOME SUN WED AM BEFORE COLD AIR ADVECTION AND SHORT WAVE BRING BROKEN CU IN DURING THE AFTERNOON. GENERALLY KEPT GOING MIN AND MAX TEMPS. LONG TERM... A HIGH WILL BE IN PLACE THROUGH SATURDAY. ON SATURDAY GFS HAS A SHORTWAVE MOVE EASTWARD THROUGH MICHIGAN BUT KEEPS US DRY. KEEPS THE MOISTURE TO OUR NORTH. BY SUNDAY THEN A LOW WILL BE OVER THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES. LEFT SUNDAY WET AS IT IS STILL AT THE END OF THE EXTENDED AND TIMING CAN CHANGE THAT FAR OUT. WILL WATCH MODELS TO SEE HOW THEY TREND BUT APPEARS LIKE A WARM FRONT COULD BE TO THE NORTH OF US AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS WEEKEND...THE LOW PASSES BY US TO THE NORTH ON SUNDAY AND THEN TOWARDS THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK THAT LOW WILL DRAG ITS COLD FRONT THROUGH. WILL WAIT AND SEE BUT DID NOT FLIP FLOP AND AGREES WELL WITH SURROUNDING OFFICES. HIGH TEMPS WILL BE AROUND NORMAL EXCEPT FOR THIS WEEKEND WHEN WE HAVE A SOUTH TO SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW IN PLACE WHICH SHOULD AT LEAST GET US INTO THE UPPER 80S. && .IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. MI...NONE. OH...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 330 PM EST TUE JUL 6 2004 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-071004- ADAMS IN-ALLEN OH-ALLEN IN-BERRIEN MI-BLACKFORD IN-BRANCH MI-CASS MI- CASS IN-DE KALB IN-DEFIANCE OH-ELKHART IN-FULTON OH-FULTON IN- GRANT IN-HENRY OH-HILLSDALE MI-HUNTINGTON IN-JAY IN-KOSCIUSKO IN- LA PORTE IN-LAGRANGE IN-MARSHALL IN-MIAMI IN-NOBLE IN-PAULDING OH- PULASKI IN-PUTNAM OH-ST. JOSEPH MI-ST. JOSEPH IN-STARKE IN- STEUBEN IN-VAN WERT OH-WABASH IN-WELLS IN-WHITE IN-WHITLEY IN- WILLIAMS OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ANGOLA...ARCHBOLD...AUBURN... BENTON HARBOR...BENTON HEIGHTS...BERNE...BLUFFTON...BREMEN...BRYAN... BUCHANAN...BUTLER...COLDWATER...COLUMBIA CITY...DECATUR...DEFIANCE... DELPHOS...DOWAGIAC...DUNKIRK...DUNLAP...ELKHART...FAIR PLAIN... FAIRMOUNT...FORT SHAWNEE...FORT WAYNE...GARRETT...GAS CITY... GEORGETOWN...GOSHEN...GRANGER...GRISSOM AFB...GULIVOIRE PARK... HARTFORD CITY...HICKSVILLE...HILLSDALE...HUNTINGTON...KENDALLVILLE... KNOX...LA PORTE...LAGRANGE...LIGONIER...LIMA...LOGANSPORT...MARION... MICHIGAN CITY...MISHAWAKA...MONTICELLO...MONTPELIER...NAPOLEON... NAPPANEE...NEW HAVEN...NILES...NORTH MANCHESTER...OSSIAN...OTTAWA... PERU...PLYMOUTH...PORTLAND...ROCHESTER...SIMONTON LAKE... SOUTH BEND...ST. JOSEPH...STURGIS...SWANTON...SYRACUSE... THREE RIVERS...TRAIL CREEK...TRI-LAKES...UPLAND...VAN WERT... WABASH...WARSAW...WAUSEON...WESTVILLE...WINAMAC AND WINONA LAKE 330 PM EST TUE JUL 6 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN INDIANA...NORTHWEST OHIO AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE AREA. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IS FORECASTING A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF NORTHERN INDIANA...SOUTHERN MICHIGAN...AND NORTHWEST OHIO. STRONG DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERN WITH THESE STORMS...BUT LARGE HAIL AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE REGION THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. THIS COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO A VERY WARM AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER ILLINOIS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVE EAST THROUGH INDIANA...SOUTHERN MICHIGAN...AND NORTHWEST OHIO THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING...MAINLY ACROSS NORTHWESTERN OHIO. THESE ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT. IT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE IF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES, OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/IWX HITCHCOCK
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 60 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:19 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A metal light pole was broke off at the base in the parking lot of a Chevy dealership along US 33.
Mainly roof damage occurred to a few hangars on the airport. Debris was thrown away from the hangar and into other hangars with minor damage occurring to these buildings. Minor damage occurred to an aircraft in one of the hangars due to being struck by a 2x4. Damage amount estimated.
Contract observer reported penny size hail at the airport.
Trees reported blown down.
Trees reported blown down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, July 2004
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: 5411914, 5411915, 5411913, 5413327, 5413326.