Two areas of severe thunderstorms moved across southern and northern areas of central Indiana on the afternoon and evening of 6 July 2004. Damaging winds were most often reported, with large hail reported with the southern area of storms.
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The episode as NWS IND wrote it up.
Two areas of severe thunderstorms moved across southern and northern areas of central Indiana on the afternoon and evening of 6 July 2004. Damaging winds were most often reported, with large hail reported with the southern area of storms.
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 6, 2:30 AM EST, 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 230 AM EST WED JUL 6 2004 .DISCUSSION...BROAD LOW PRES OVR MI WITH CD FRONT ACRS SRN WI EARLY THIS AM. RADAR SHOWS MOST OF THE TSRA ACRS SRN INDIANA AND PUSHING NE ACRS LWR MI AND NW OH. H20 IMAGERY SHOWS MUCH DRIER MID LEVELS WORKING ACRS IL TOWARD INDIANA. AIRMASS REMAINS QUITE MOIST WITH DEWPOINTS ACRS THE AREA IN THE MIDDLE 60S. FCST CHALLENGE WL BE POPS TODAY. MODELS IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT SWEEPING FRONT SLOWLY SE ACRS NRN INDIANA AS FLOW BECOMES MORE WRLY ACRS THE FA TDY. UPPER TROF AND BROAD LOWER LVL CYCLONIC FLOW WL REMAIN OVR INDIANA TODAY BEFORE RIDGING BEGINS TO TAKE OVER TONIGHT. HOWEVER AS EVIDENT FROM THE H20 IMAGERY DECENT DRYING WORKING TOWARD THE STATE AND NATIONAL RADAR MOSAICS SHOW ONLY LITTLE PCPN ALONG THE FRONT. ETA H10-H8 LAYER SHOWS GOOD DIVERGENCE OF Q. NOT MUCH HELP ON THE EITHER ON THE ETA 310K ISENTROPIC SFC AS IT APPEARS RATHER FLAT AND ALL THE BEST MOISTURE HAS EXITED THE STATE BY 12Z THIS MORNING. TIME SECTIONS SHOW A MOIST LOWER LVL BUT MID AND UPPER LVLS ARE DRY WITH SUBSIDENCE. FCST SOUNDINGS SHOW ANY RISING PARCELS SHOULD HAVE A HARD TIME REACHING THE LFC. STILL WITH CYCLONIC FLOW...FRONTAL PASSAGE AND DECENT MOISTURE AT THE SFC HATE TO NOT HAVE ANY POPS. STILL A RENEGADE SHOWER DOE NOT SEEM OUT OF QUESTION. HENCE WL LIMIT TO ONLY SLIGHT POPS ACRS THE NORTHERN PART OF FA WHERE LOWER LVL CONVERGENCE MIGHT BE A BIT BETTER AS THE FRONT BRUSHES BY AND GO DRY ELSEWHERE. DECENT RIDGE BUILDS ACRS INDIANA ON THURS AND CU RULE GOES SLIGHTLY NEG. TIME SECTIONS STILL SHOW A PRETTY DRY COLUMN AND SUBSIDENCE. THUS EXPECT A FEW CU IN THE AFTERNOON AND OTHERWISE PLEASANT WX. BY THURS AFTERNOON A BIT OF WAA GETS GOING ACRS THE SRN PART OF THE FA WHERE THE ISENTROPIC SFC SHOWS SOME VV...BUT THE END RESULT SHOULD JUST BE SOME CLOUDS. WARMING TREND LOOKS TO CONTINUE ON FRIDAY AS HIGH PRES RIDGE REMAINS OVER THE AREA WITH SRLY FLOW. WL WORK A COMPROMISE ON MAV AND MET TEMPS...LEANING A BIT COLDER ON THE LOWS DURG THE CAA PATTERN. HIGH TEMPS LOOK PRETTY GOOD CONSIDERING EXPECTED H8 TEMPS. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && PUMA
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 511 AM EST MON JUL 5 2004 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-061100- 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- 511 AM EST MON JUL 5 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY SEVERE THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL INDIANA AND WEDNESDAY MORNING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL INDIANA. SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN SEVERE THREAT. THERE IS ALSO A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY...HOWEVER IT IS TOO SOON TO TELL IF THOSE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE ANYTIME FROM THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. && MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT OUR WEBSITE... HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/IND
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 147 AM EST TUE JUL 6 2004 INZ021-029>031-036>042-061200- BOONE-CARROLL-CLINTON-DELAWARE-HAMILTON-HOWARD-MADISON-MONTGOMERY- RANDOLPH-TIPPECANOE-TIPTON- 147 AM EST TUE JUL 6 2004 ..SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #574 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM... PUMA
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:00 UTC.
6 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A garage, along with two pickup trucks, a bass boat, a lawn tractor, and other contents, was destroyed in a lightning strike fire.
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: 5412743, 5412736, 5412737, 5412738, 5412739, 5412740, 5412741, 5412742.