3 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Jun 12, 3:25 AM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 325 AM EST SAT JUN 12 2004 .SHORT TERM... WARM FRONT FROM SE IN-NW IL IS EXPECTED TO LIFT SLOWLY NORTH TODAY AND TONIGHT. VERY WARM MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS TO THE SOUTH OF THIS FRONT. TSTMS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING NORTH OF THIS FRONT TONIGHT AND BACKBUILDING. APPEARS THREAT OF THIS ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE TODAY. BY TONIGHT FRONT MAY BE FAR ENOUGH NORTH FOR TSTMS TO MAINLY BE OVER MI BUT STILL LOOKS CLOSE ENOUGH TO CONTINUE CHC OF THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT, BUT FOR NOW HAVE JUST EXTENDED THE FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 600 PM AND EXPANDED IT NORTHWARD TO INCLUDE COUNTIES WHICH HAVE RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN LAST FEW HOURS. TEMPS COULD BE A PROBLEM TODAY IF TSTMS AND DEBRIS CLOUDS PERSIST. FOR NOW JUST LOWERED PREVIOUS FCST SLIGHTLY AND STAYED CLOSE TO 00Z MOS RUNS. && .LONG TERM... NO SGFNT CHANGES MADE IN THIS PERIOD ATTM. CDFNT WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS WRN GRTLKS SUNDAY WITH UNSTABLE AIRMASS AHEAD OF IT. WIND FIELDS AND SHEAR INCREASE AHEAD OF THE FRONT PROVIDING A BETTER OPPORTUNITY FOR SVR STORMS. LATEST MODELS SUGGEST THIS FRONT WILL WASH OUT OVER OUR AREA WITH ANOTHER CDFNT DROPPING SE INTO THE AREA ON MONDAY. COULD BE A DRY PD MON NGT BEHIND THIS FRONT BUT HELD OFF ON MAKING CHANGES AND AWAIT RUN-RUN MODEL CONSISTENCY. DRY FCST WED ALSO LOOKS IN JEOPARDY AS LATEST GFS SHOWING ANOTHER CDFNT MOVG THROUGH THE AREA ABOUT THAT TIME. AGAIN HELD OFF ON RE-INTRODUCING POPS FOR THIS PERIOD FOR NOW AND MONITOR LATER MODEL RUNS. CONTINUED WITH DRY FCST FOR LATE IN THE WEEK AS SFC HIGH PRES RIDGE FCST TO BE OVER THE AREA WITH DRIER NW FLOW ALOFT. && .AVIATION... WARM FRONT EXTENDING FROM SE IN-NW IL ATTM WITH SCT TSTMS DVLPG NORTH OF FRONT OVER NRN IN/IL. FRONT EXPECTED TO LIFT SLOWLY NORTH TO IN/MI BORDER BY END OF TAF PD. INCLUDED TSTMS IN TEMPO GROUP OVERNIGHT. PRBLY WL BE SCT STORMS AROUND AGAIN LATER IN THE TAF PERIOD, BUT, A LITTLE EARLY TO NAIL DOWN TIMING SO HAVE LEFT OUT OF TAFS FOR NOW. DAYTIME HEATING SHOULD GRADUALLY IMPROVE CIGS TO VFR IN THE AFTN. && .IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 700 AM EST SATURDAY FOR ZONES INZ013... INZ015...INZ020...INZ022>026...INZ032>034. FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 600 PM EST SATURDAY FOR ZONES INZ003>006... INZ008...INZ012>018...INZ020...INZ022>027...INZ032>034. MI...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 600 PM EST SATURDAY FOR ZONES MIZ077>079. OH...NONE. && JT
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
320 AM EST SAT JUN 12 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0245 AM FLASH FLOOD STEVENSVILLE 42.01N 86.53W
06/12/2004 BERRIEN MI COUNTY OFFICIAL
SIGNIFICANT ROAD FLOODING IN SUBDIVISIONS IN STEVENSVILLE
AND ST JOSEPH. WATER FLOWING INTO HOMES.
0245 AM FLASH FLOOD 3 E BENTON HARBOR 42.12N 86.39W
06/12/2004 BERRIEN MI COUNTY OFFICIAL
WATER FLOWING OVER INTERSTATE 94
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HITCHCOCKThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Emergency management reported roads closed with water flowing across roadways. 4 to 5 roads had water over 2 feet deep flowing across them.
Emergency management reported several roads across the county closed due to water over 2 foot deep flowing across them.
Emergency management reported over 1 foot of water still flowing over 3 roads in Logansport.
Emergency management reported 25 to 30 trees down east of Brookston.
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, June 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: 5406836, 5406837, 5406839, 5406838, 5406840.