Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms occurred over eastern portions of central Indiana on 18 July 2005.
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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 episode as NWS IND wrote it up.
Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms occurred over eastern portions of central Indiana on 18 July 2005.
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 Jul 18, 2:50 PM EST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 250 PM EST MON JUL 18 2005 .DISCUSSION... AT 18Z...COLD FRONT STRETCHED FROM LK MI TO NWRN IN...CTRL IL...AND WEST INTO SRN KS. TEMPS ACRS THE FA WERE IN THE MID 80S...WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE OPPRESSIVE MID 70S. HEAT INDICES WERE GENERALLY IN THE MID 90S. VIS SAT SHOWED SCT CU ACRS FA. STORMS HAD ALREADY FIRED ALONG AND AHEAD OF CD FNT FM LWR MI TO CTRL IL. SVR WX POSSIBLE THIS AFTN AND EVE AS CD FNT MOVES IN. FORECAST FOCUS WL BE POPS/SVR WX TONIGHT. NAM APPEARS TO BE HANDLING FRONT AND PRECIP A BIT BETTER. GFS LOOKS TO BE OVERDOING PRECIP EARLY ON. FRONT SHOULD MOVE THRU TNGT...LINGERING IN FAR SRN INDIANA TMRW. CENT IN WAS CAPPED THIS MORNING...BUT CAP IS ERODING...AS CONVECTION IS FINALLY STARTING TO MAINTAIN ITSELF IN THE FA. PER SPC MESOANALYSIS PAGE...SBCAPES ALREADY TO AROUND 3000 WITH LI/S TO -5. W/ STRONG CONVERGENCE ALONG FNT...STORMS WL MV ACRS FA THIS AFTN AND TNGT. SVR WX SHOULD NOT BE WIDESPREAD AS WIND FIELDS ARE WEAK...BUT THREAT EXISTS NONETHELESS GIVEN INSTABILITY. HEAVY RAIN WL BE POSSIBLE WITH STORMS AS PWATS ARE 1.5-2.0 WHICH IS AROUND 150 PERCENT OF NORMAL. FLASH FLOODING MAY BE AN ISSUE TONIGHT DUE TO HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL AND STORM MOTION ALONG TAIL END OF FNT IN CENT IL...BUT FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE IS FAIRLY HIGH...SO AM NOT TOO CONCERNED ATTM. GIVEN SLIGHTLY BETTER HANDLING OF FRONT BY NAM...WL LEAN TOWARD MET POPS TNGT...WITH SOME ADJUSTMENT GIVEN EXPECTED POSITION OF LINE OF STORMS HAVING FIRED ALONG FRONT ATTM. SOME ACTIVITY MAY LINGER IN SRN FA TMRW NEAR BOUNDARY...BUT AREA SHOULD DRY OUT FOR REMAINDER OF SHORT TERM. DEWPOINTS DO NOT DROP OFF THAT QUICKLY BEHIND FRONT...SO GIVEN EXPECTED FRONTAL POSITION OVRNGT...GUID TEMPS LOOK GOOD FOR TNGT...AND ARE CLOSE TO GOING FCST. H85 TEMPS DO NOT COOL VERY MUCH TMRW...BUT SKY COVER SHOULD BE SLIGHTLY LESS...SO GUID TEMPS IN UPPER 80S...SIMILAR TO TODAYS NUMBERS...LOOK OK. WITH DEWPOINTS COMING DOWN BEHIND FNT TOMORROW EVE...LOWS TMRW NIGHT COOLING TO MID-UPR 60S LOOK GOOD AS WELL. WITH H85 TEMPS BEGINNING TO WARM WED...EXPECT HIGHS AROUND 90 TO LWR 90S. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 644 VALID THROUGH 00Z NRN THIRD OF CWA. && NIELD
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 501 AM EST MON JUL 18 2005 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-191100- 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- 501 AM EST MON JUL 18 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA TODAY AND TONIGHT AS A COLD FRONT PUSHES ACROSS INDIANA. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THE STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS. THE MAIN THREATS FROM THE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND PERHAPS DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL. LIGHTNING IS ALSO A THREAT WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. THE BEST CHANCES FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING AS THE COLD FRONT PUSHES ACROSS OUR STATE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONS ACROSS SOUTHERN INDIANA INCLUDING THE CITIES OF BEDFORD...SEYMOUR AND VINCENNES. THE MAIN THREAT FROM ANY OF THESE STORMS WILL BE LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS RESULTING IN LOCALIZED FLOODING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO A POSSIBILITY ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL INDIANA ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. AGAIN...THE MAIN THREAT WITH ANY OF THESE STORMS WILL BE LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS THAT COULD RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. && MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT OUR WEBSITE... HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/IND PUMA
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 502 PM EST MON JUL 18 2005 INZ021-028-029-035-182300- CARROLL-FOUNTAIN-TIPPECANOE-WARREN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LAFAYETTE 502 PM EST MON JUL 18 2005 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SEVERE WEATHER IS NO LONGER EXPECTED. INZ030-031-036>042-190000- BOONE-CLINTON-DELAWARE-HAMILTON-HOWARD-MADISON-MONTGOMERY-RANDOLPH- TIPTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ANDERSON...CRAWFORDSVILLE...FRANKFORT... KOKOMO AND MUNCIE 502 PM EST MON JUL 18 2005 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 700 PM EST.
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 45 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:42 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees were blown down near County Road 500 North and State Road 9.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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