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 May 14, 5:45 AM EST, 6 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 545 AM EST FRI MAY 14 2004 .AVIATION... MAIN AREA OF PRECIPITATION REMAINS ACROSS MUCH OF ILLINOIS. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED TO THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF KSBN WITH ONE SHOWER BRIEFLY PASSING OVER THE SITE. THINK BEST CHANCE FOR WIDESPREAD PRECIP...INCLUDING THUNDER...WILL BE DELAYED A BIT. MAY NOT BE AS MUCH CONVECTION AT KSBN COMPARED TO KFWA...SO HAVE WENT WITH A SMALLER TEMPO GROUP AT KSBN. CIGS/VSBY HAS BEEN IN MVFR RANGE MUCH OF THE NIGHT AT KSBN...ALTHOUGH CIGS TRYING TO GO BACK TO VFR AT ISSUANCE TIME. ONCE RAIN MOVES IN...EXPECT MVFR WITH OCCASIONAL IFR CONDITIONS AT BOTH SITES...PERSISTING TILL LATER THIS EVENING AS DRIER AIR BEGINS TO WORK IN. COULD BE SOME LEFTOVER STRATUS AT BOTH SITES AND SOME PATCHY FOG...DEPENDING ON AMOUNT OF CLEARING TONIGHT. NO MENTION IN TAFS AT THIS TIME. && .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... SHORT TERM... TODAY AND TONIGHT SEVERAL CHALLENGES TODAY WITH PASSAGE OF COLD FRONT. AT 6Z...COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED FROM NORTHERN LWR MICHIGAN...TO CENTRAL ILLINOIS. ONE LOW WAS NOTED IN NORTHERN LOWER MI WITH ANOTHER LOW DEVELOPING OVER NW ARKANSAS. POOLING OF MID-UPR 60 DEWPOINTS NOTED ALONG AND JUST AHEAD OF THE FRONT IN IL/IN WITH SFC TEMPS GENERALLY IN THE UPR 60S TO LWR 70S. A FEW ROUNDS OF PRECIP HAVE AFFECTED THE AREA OVER THE PAST 6 HOURS IN RESPONSE TO LOW PRESSURE MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN LOWER MI AT THIS TIME. BULK OF ACTIVITY HAS BEEN REMAINING CLOSE TO THE FRONT IN IL/MISSOURI. ISOLATED CONVECTION WILL POP UP UNTIL CLOSER TO SUNRISE ACROSS MAINLY THE WEST. ACTIVITY EXPECTED TO INCREASE AROUND OR JUST AFTER SUNRISE IN THE WEST AS NEXT WAVE OF LOW PRESSURE MOVES UP THE FRONT. INCREASING PVA AND CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FRONT AS WELL AS THE SFC LOW MOVING IN WILL ALL COMBINE TO CAUSE SHOWERS AND STORMS TO BREAK OUT ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA DURING THE MORNING HOURS. BEST CHANCE FOR CONVECTION...INCLUDING RISK FOR HEAVY RAIN AND SEVERE WEATHER WILL GENERALLY BE IN THE SE 2/3RDS OF THE AREA. FRONT LOOKS TO BE NEAR KSBN BY LATE MORNING...THEN STALL OUT SOME AS LOW MOVES ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA WITH THE FRONT THEN CLEARING THE AREA BY EARLY EVENING. CATEGORICAL POPS CURRENTLY IN GRIDS FOR TODAY STILL LOOK GOOD. MAINLY STRATIFORM PRECIP EXPECTED BEHIND THE FRONT...BUT CANT RULE OUT SOME EMBEDDED STORMS SO WILL KEEP TRW MENTION ALL DAY. NEW SWODY1 PLACES ENTIRE FORECAST AREA IN SLGT RISK FOR LATE MORNING AND AFTERNOON. THINK BEST CHANCES WILL BE IN EASTERN AREAS WHERE SFC TEMPS WILL RISE INTO MID 70S BEFORE THE PRECIP MOVES IN. WIND FIELDS WOULD SUPPORT DAMAGING WINDS AND GIVEN WHAT HAS HAPPENED PAST FEW DAYS WITH ISOLATED WIND DAMAGE IN LESS FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT...RISK IS THERE AND WILL NEED TO BE MONITORED. THINK HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL IS A BIT GREATER THAN SVR AS PWS WELL ABOVE NORMAL (1.5 TO 1.75...ESPECIALLY EAST). WILL KEEP MENTION OUT OF ZONES FOR NOW AND HIT BOTH IN HWO. WILL CONTINUE WITH LIKELY POPS FAR EAST AND CHC POPS REST OF AREA FOR THE EVENING...THEN DRY THINGS OUT MOST AREAS OVERNIGHT AS BEST LIFT SHIFTS EAST. TEMPS WILL BE BIG STORY AFTER PRECIP MOVES ON...ESPECIALLY NW AS DROP OF 10 TO 20 DEGREES NOTED IN 3 HOUR PERIOD BEHIND FRONT YESTERDAY. EXPERIMENTAL WAM NUMBERS PUT BENTON HARBOR INTO THE MID 40S BY EVENING. DROP WILL BE DELAYED EAST UNTIL EVENING. THIS COMBINED WITH CLOUD COVER WILL HELP KEEP THEM WARMER. OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL BOTTOM OUT AROUND 40 AT BENTON HARBOR WITH UPR 40S FAR SE. THINK MET GOING TOO COOL IN MOST AREAS WITH MAV A BIT CLOSER TO CURRENT THINKING. LONG TERM... SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY HIGH PRESSURE TO MOVE INTO REGION FOR SATURDAY INTO MONDAY WITH MAINLY CLEAR SKIES AND COOLER TEMPS. NEXT SYSTEM APPROACHES FOR LATER MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY AS FLOW BECOMES MORE ZONAL WITH TIMING OF SHORTWAVES BECOMING MORE UNCERTAIN. GFS APPEARS TO BE OVERDONE WITH MOISTURE AND QPF ON MONDAY AS EXPECT ANY SHOWERS TO HOLD OFF TIL LATER MONDAY NIGHT AS FRONT GETS CLOSER TO CWA. SHOWERS ON TUESDAY WITH FROPA. QUESTION FOR WED IS HOW FAR SOUTH FRONT WILL BE AND WHEN IT WILL BEGIN TO MOVE NORTH WITH ANOTHER SHORTWAVE RIDING EAST FROM PLAINS. KEPT DRY FORECAST FOR NOW WITH FRONT EXPECTED TO BE FAR ENOUGH SOUTH TO KEEP CWA DRY. SHOWERS THURSDAY AS NEXT SYSTEM MOVES IN. && .IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. MI...NONE. OH...NONE. && LWF/RES
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 512 AM EST FRI MAY 14 2004 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-151008- 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 512 AM EST FRI MAY 14 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN INDIANA...NORTHWEST OHIO AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERN WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM DOWAGIAC MICHIGAN TO MONTICELLO INDIANA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...AND AGAIN ON THURSDAY. AT THIS TIME IT IS UNCERTAIN IF ANY STORMS WILL BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES, OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/IWX
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 59 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:24 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Public reported hail to ping pong ball size in Edwardsburg on Eagle Lake. Damage was to roofs and a recreational vehicle.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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