3 hail, 1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. 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 Aug 8, 2:35 PM EST, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 235 PM EST MON AUG 8 2005 .SHORT TERM... TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. KIWX RADAR THIS AFTN DEPICTED SCATTERED CONVECTION ACRS ABOUT THREE FOURTHS OF THE CWFA THIS CONVECTION WAS IN RESPONSE TO AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS (MUCAPE AROUND 3000 J/KG) AND WEAK CONVERGENT BOUNDARIES (LAKE BREEZE FRONT AND SUBTLE BOUNDARY ACRS NE INDIANA/NRN OHIO). ALSO...THERE WAS A MINOR S/WV APCHING FROM THE NORTHWEST. HOWEVER...THIS DOES NOT SEEM TO BE A PLAYER ATTM. WITH THE CONVECTION GETTING ITS ENERGY FROM DAYTIME HEATING AND NOT LARGE SCALE FORCING...AM EXPECTING IT TO DWINDLE GRADUALLY AFTER SUNSET. THEREAFTER...SKIES WILL BECOME MOSTLY CLEAR. THERE COULD BE SOME PATCHY FOG OVERNIGHT...ESPECIALLY WHERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE OCCURRED (HEAVY RAINFALL). WILL NOT MENTION AT THIS TIME...BUT WILL PASS THOUGHTS ON TO EVENING FORECASTER...WHICH BY THEN WILL HAVE A BETTER IDEA WHERE RAIN HAS FALLEN. OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL RANGE FROM THE MID 60S TO AROUND 70 DEGREES. ON TUESDAY...S/WV RIDGING IS FCST TO OCCUR ACRS THE REGION. IN ADDITION...THERE ARE NO APPRECIABLE LOW LVL CONVERGENT BOUNDARIES INDICATED ATTM BY THE MODELS. HENCE...DRY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED. WAA ASSOCD WITH THE MID LVL RIDGING WILL PUSH 850 MB TEMPS INTO THE +19 TO +21 DEGREE RANGE. THESE VALUES ARE GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIGH TEMPS TO AT LEAST REACH THE LOWER 90S ACRS THE ENTIRE FCST AREA. && .LONG TERM... TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY PROBLEM OF DAY IS CHANCES/TIMING OF STORMS...ESPECIALLY THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY. IN THE BIG PICTURE THERE WILL BE A ZONAL FLOW FOCUSED JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE AREA. ANY WAVES MOVING THRU THE FLOW MAY MAY ALLOW ORGANIZED CONVECTION TO DEVELOP INTO THE AREA. MODELS ARE OFFERING QUITE A VARIABLE SET OF SOLUTIONS TODAY. MOST AGREE FRONTAL PASSAGE WILL OCCUR WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THRU EARLY MORNING THURSDAY. WILL FOCUS BEST CHANCES OF THUNDER DURING THOSE TIMES. MODELS REALLY BEGIN TO DIVERGE IN SOLUTIONS THURSDAY THRU THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST AS THEY STRUGGLE TO FORECAST TRANSITORY WAVES IN THE FLOW. WITH STRONG MODEL DIFFERENCES AND LITTLE IN THE WAY OF RUN TO RUN CONSISTENCY IN ANY PARTICULAR MODEL...CHOSE TO KEEP ONGOING FORECAST IN TACT...TO AVOID POTENTIAL YOYOING OF PRECIP FORECAST. DUE TO LOWERED CONFIDENCE IN RAIN ON THURSDAY...LOWERED PROBABILITY OF PRECIP VALUES AS LOW AS COULD TO CONTINUE MENTION IN FORECAST. TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO BE AT OR ABOVE NORMAL. && .PREV FORECAST... UPDATE... BASED ON LATEST SATELLITE/RADAR TRENDS...IT APPEARS THERE IS ANOTHER CONVERGENCE AXIS DEVELOPING FROM ERN INDIANA INTO NRN OHIO. LATEST RUC AND MSAS DEPICT THIS FEATURE. AS A RESULT...WILL UPDATE ALL ZONES TO INCLUDE A 30 PERCENT CHC OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTN...AND WILL LINGER A SLIGHT CHC ACRS THE ERN TWO THIRDS OF THE CWFA INTO THE EARLY EVENING. && .AVIATION... LATEST VISIBLE SATELLITE AND RADAR TRENDS ARE DEPICTING TWO SUBTLE CONVERGENCE BOUNDARIES. THE FIRST ONE WAS LOCATED JUST TO THE LEE OF LAKE MICHIGAN...AKA A LAKE BREEZE. THE SECOND ONE WAS JUST SE OF THIS BOUNDARY. 12Z NAM AND LATEST RUC40 CONTINUE TO SHOW THESE TWO BOUNDARIES FOR THIS AFTN...AND THEY MAY CONSOLIDATE INTO ONE BOUNDARY AS THEY SLOWLY MOVE SE. ISOLD SHOWERS HAVE ALREADY DEVELOPED...AND WITH MORE DIABATIC HEATING TO TAKE PLACE ...THUNDERSTORMS WILL SOON ERUPT. CONVECTION SHOULD STAY ISOLD/SCT IN NATURE WITH THE LACK OF STRONG LOW LVL CONVERGENCE AND UPR SUPPORT. AS SUCH...WILL INTRODUCE A VCTS AT KSBN. FOR KFWA...BELIEVE CHC OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE LESS LIKELY THERE...SO WILL LEAVE OUT. FOR TONIGHT...WITH DIURNAL COOLING...CONVECTION SHOULD GRADUALLY WANE IN THE EVENING...WITH SKIES BECOMING MOSTLY CLEAR. SOME MVFR CONDITIONS IN MIST CAN BE EXPECTED AT KFWA TOWARD MORNING. S/WV RIDGING WILL OCCUR ON TUESDAY. THUS...AM NOT EXPECTING CONVECTION. DIURNAL CUMULUS CLOUDS WILL DEVELOP ACRS THE REGION AROUND 15Z. && .IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. MI...NONE. OH...NONE. LM...NONE. && AVIATION/SHORT TERM...HICKMAN LONG TERM...EDDY
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 100 PM EST MON AUG 8 2005 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004- 005-015-016-024-025-091045- LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB- STARKE-PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY-ALLEN IN- WHITE-CASS IN-MIAMI-WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD- JAY-BERRIEN-CASS MI-ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS- FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-HENRY-PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT-ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND... MISHAWAKA...ELKHART...GOSHEN...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...ANGOLA... KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...AUBURN...GARRETT...KNOX... NORTH JUDSON...WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...PLYMOUTH...BREMEN... ROCHESTER...WARSAW...WINONA LAKE...COLUMBIA CITY... SOUTH WHITLEY...FORT WAYNE...MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON... LOGANSPORT...PERU...WABASH...NORTH MANCHESTER...HUNTINGTON... BLUFFTON...OSSIAN...DECATUR...BERNE...MARION...HARTFORD CITY... MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...NILES...BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH... BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...STURGIS...THREE RIVERS... COLDWATER...HILLSDALE...BRYAN...WAUSEON...ARCHBOLD...DEFIANCE... NAPOLEON...PAULDING...ANTWERP...OTTAWA...PANDORA...VAN WERT... DELPHOS...LIMA 100 PM EST MON AUG 8 2005/ 100 PM CDT MON AUG 8 2005/ 200 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2005/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO...NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN... NORTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. HOWEVER...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG OR SEVERE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-061-091045- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- MICHIGAN CITY IN TO ST JOSEPH MI OUT TO MID LAKE- 200 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. A FEW STORMS WITH WIND GUSTS TO 35 KNOTS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/MARINE
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 57 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:00 UTC.
3 hail, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Quarter size hail was reported on the east side of Fort Wayne, on the IPFW campus. Nickel size hail was reported a few minutes later a mile east of Fort Wayne.
Hail ranging from nickel to quarter size was reported.
A severe thunderstorm became stationary for nearly an hour just southeast of Goshen. Hail ranging from quarter size to tennis ball size was reported from New Paris northwest to 3 miles southeast of Goshen. Reports were receive of vehicle damage, as well as window and siding damage on several residences.
Portions of County Road 31 as well as US 33 near Fairfield High School were impassable for several hours when at least 3.5 inches of rain fell over a few hours as a thunderstorm remained stationary. An apartment complex just west of the Goshen airport suffered some water damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, August 2005
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: 5469018, 5469019, 5469020, 5469021.