2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 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 Sep 3, 6:09 PM EST, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 609 PM EST FRI SEP 3 2004 .AVIATION... A CLUSTER OF STORMS NEAR FWA HAD DEVELOPED BEHIND THE MAIN VORT MAX THAT DRIFTED NORTH EARLIER TODAY. WILL KEEP A TEMPO GROUP FOR STORMS IN FWA THIS EVENING...OTHERWISE...EXPECT SHOWERS AND STORMS TO DISSIPATE OR BE NORTHEAST OF FWA BY 03Z. PLENTY OF MOISTURE FOR FOG TONIGHT AS TEMPERATURE/DEW POINT SPREADS ALREADY DOWN TO 4 TO 6 DEGREES. WILL KEEP IFR VSBY LATER TONIGHT AS RADIATION FOG SHOULD FORM. && .SHORT TERM... TONIGHT AND SATURDAY...VORT MAX WAS CONTINUING TO LIFT NORTH INTO LOWER MI AND MOST SHOWER AND STORM ACTIVITY HAD WEAKENED OR MOVED NORTH OUT OF THE AREA. ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING FROM LAF TO MIE WITH DIURNAL HEATING...BUT EXPECT ACTIVITY SHOULD NOT DEVELOP OVER AREAS THAT HAVE STABILIZED WITH THE HEAVY RAINFALL TODAY. THEREFORE...HAVE LEFT MENTION OF LINGERING SHOWERS NE OF A LINE FROM SBN TO AOH THIS EVENING. EXPECT FOG SHOULD DEVELOP AGAIN TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY GIVEN AMOUNT OF RAIN THAT HAS FALLEN RECENTLY...SO HAVE MENTIONED AREAS OF FOG. LEFT A CHANCE FOR STORMS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AS ATMOSPHERE SHOULD DESTABILIZE WITH DAYTIME HEATING. && .LONG TERM... SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY... UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OVER THE AREA AT START OF LONG TERM PERIOD SHOULD PROVIDE FAIR WX SAT NGT-SUN NGT. LIGHT WINDS AND MOIST LOW LEVELS SHOULD LEAD TO SOME FOG DEVELOPMENT AGAIN SAT NGT. LOW LEVELS WILL LIKELY BECOME WEAKLY UNSTABLE SUN AFTN, POSSIBLY LEADING TO AN ISOLD SHOWER, BUT WARM TEMPS IN MID LEVELS SHOULD CAP ANY CONVECTION, THUS, CONTINUED WITH DRY FCST. DEEP TROUGH OVER WRN U.S. TODAY EXPECTED TO WKN AS IT MOVES EAST TOWARD ERN U.S. RIDGE... REACHING WRN GRTLKS ON MONDAY AS A FAIRLY WEAK SYSTEM. ASSOCIATED SFC FRONT WILL LIKELY STALL OVER THE AREA DUE TO REMNANTS OF FRANCES MOVING NORTH INTO THE UPR OH VALLEY...CONTINUED WITH CHC OF SHOWERS INTO WED WEST AND THROUGH WED NGT IN OH COUNTIES. FAIR WX EXPECTED THU AS RIDGE MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. GFS/DGEX FCSTG ANOTHER NRN STREAM SHRTWV TO MOVE EAST INTO GRTLKS FRI. ECMWF/GEM CONSIDERABLY WEAKER WITH THIS FEATURE BUT STILL ENOUGH SUPPORT TO MENTION CHC TSTMS FRI. TEMPS WILL BE AT OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH THIS PERIOD AND ONLY MINOR CHANGES NEEDED TO MOS TEMPS. && .IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. MI...NONE OH...NONE. && SHORT TERM/AVIATION...SKIP LONG TERM...LASHLEY
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 524 AM EST FRI SEP 3 2004...CORRECTED DAY ONE INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-041000- ADAMS-ALLENIN-ALLENOH-BERRIEN-BLACKFORD-BRANCH-CASSIN-CASSMI- DEFIANCE-DEKALB-ELKHART-FULTONIN-FULTONOH-GRANT-HENRY-HILLSDALE- HUNTINGTON-JAY-KOSCIUSKO-LAGRANGE-LAPORTE-MARSHALL-MIAMI-NOBLE- PAULDING-PULASKI-PUTNAM-ST JOSEPHIN-ST JOSEPHMI-STARKE-STEUBEN- VAN WERT-WABASH-WELLS-WHITE-WHITLEY-WILLIAMS- 524 AM EST FRI SEP 3 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN INDIANA...NORTHWEST OHIO AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY... HOWEVER NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND AGAIN SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...WITH A FEW STORMS POSSIBLY SEVERE MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. T
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
923 PM EST FRI SEP 03 2004
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..REMARKS..
0905 PM FLASH FLOOD ELGIN 40.74N 84.48W
09/03/2004 VAN WERT OH EMERGENCY MNGR
COUNTY AND STATE ROADS CLOSED DUE TO FLOWING WATER OVER
ROADWAYS IN SE VAN WERT COUNTY.
0905 PM FLASH FLOOD SPENCERVILLE 40.71N 84.35W
09/03/2004 ALLEN OH EMERGENCY MNGR
COUNTY AND STATE ROADS REPORTED CLOSED DUE TO FLOWING
WATER NEAR THE VAN WERT COUNTY LINE.
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WAMSLEYThe Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 61 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:58 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Underpass in downtown Ft. Wayne reported flooded. Few roads closed within city limits due to flash flooding.
Spy Run Creek crested at 8.88 feet...0.8 feet above flood stage. Reports of flash flooding along Hanauer Rd.
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, September 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: 5422109, 5422108.