1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Aug 5, 3:35 AM EST, 10 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 335 AM EST FRI AUG 5 2005 .DISCUSSION...MAIN WEATHER CONCERNS WILL BE CHANCES OF RAIN LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. A COLD FRONT EXTENDED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF OUR FORECAST AREA. RADAR SHOWS SCATTERED SHOWERS WELL BEHIND COLD FRONT MAINLY ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL INDIANA. THUNDERSHOWERS SEEM TO BE ELEVATED OCCURRING JUST AHEAD OF 850 MB TROUGH. COVERAGE HAS INCREASED A LITTLE LAST FEW HOURS. BUT LIGHTNING STRIKES HAVE DECREASED. COVERAGE WILL PROBABLY STAY ABOUT THE SAME TILL 12Z AND IT MAY DECREASE A LITTLE FOR A WHILE THIS MORNING. BASED ON WHAT GOING ON WILL GO WITH POPS IN CHANCE CATEGORY ALL AREAS THIS MORNING. MODELS MOVE PRECIPITATION SLOWLY SOUTHWARD THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL GRADUALLY END PRECIPITATION BY LATE AFTERNOON OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL SECTIONS. MODELS HAVE TENDED A LITTLE SLOWER IN MOVING DRIER AIR SOUTHWARD AND 850 MB TROUGH IS STILL IN OUR SOUTHERN FORECAST AREAS THIS EVENING. SO WILL ADD A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSHOWERS SOUTH EARLY TONIGHT. AFTER THAT THERE IS SOME UNCERNTANTY BETWEEN MODELS WITH GFS KEEPING PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF OUR AREA THROUGH SATURDAY WHILE NGM AND NAM MODELS KEEP IT A LITTLE FARTHER SOUTH. VORTICITY PATTERN OF GFS SEEMS TO BE A LITTLE SUSPECT SO WILL KEEP OUR ZONES THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. GFS KEEPS OUR SOUTH WET AND NAM MOVES PRECIP BACK INTO OUR SOUTH ON SUNDAY. WILL GO WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THEN IN OUR SOUTH. CLOUDS AND SCATTERED PRECIPITATION TODAY WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES A LITTLE COOLER THAN MOS VALUES TODAY. TEMPERATURES TONIGHT WILL RANGE FROM CLOSE TO 60 FAR NORTH TO THE UPPER 60S SOUTH. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && JEH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 536 AM EST FRI AUG 5 2005 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- 536 AM EST FRI AUG 5 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR TODAY ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA BEHIND A WEAK COLD FRONT AS IT MOVES TOWARDS THE OHIO VALLEY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL END OVER MOST SECTIONS BY THIS EVENING. HOWEVER A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD CONTINUE OVER THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL INDIANA THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. EVEN THOUGH A FEW OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...WE ARE NOT EXPECTING ANY OUTBREAK OF SEVERE WEATHER TODAY OR TONIGHT. .DAYS THREE THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL INDIANA SUNDAY AND OVER THE ENTIRE AREA...MONDAY...TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. THERE IS ALSO A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL INDIANA ON THURSDAY. AT THIS TIME IT IS TO EARLY TO DETERMINE ANY THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WHICH OCCURS NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. JEH
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 47 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:02 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning set a home on fire. Heavy damage was sustained. No damage estimates were available.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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