3 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 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 Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 26, 1:45 PM EST, 6 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 145 PM EST TUE JUL 26 2005 .DISCUSSION... FORECAST FOCUS IS ON CHANCES FOR RAIN THRU WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. AT 1830Z SCT TSRA WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS WRN FORECAST AREA /FA/ IN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. PREFRONTAL TROF NOTED ACROSS NRN IN WITH TSRA DEVELOPING ALONG IT AS WELL. MAIN FRONT WAS ACROSS NRN IL WITH PRECIP BEHIND IT. MODELS IN DECENT AGREEMENT THIS RUN...WITH SOME SLIGHT TIMING DIFFERENCES. WILL GENERALLY USE A BLEND...BUT LEAN TOWARD SLIGHTLY SLOWER SOLUTION OF THE NAM. TSRA WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN UNSTABLE AIR AND LAST INTO THE EVENING. MOST OF PRECIP WILL BE BEHIND FRONT THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT AS CAN BE SEEN CURRENTLY BEHIND THE FRONT. THUS WILL CONTINUE CATEGORICAL POPS TONIGHT AND WORD AS OCCASIONAL. WILL MENTION SEVERE DURING THE EVENING WITH DECENT DEEP LAYER SHEAR AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. POST FRONTAL PRECIP SHOULD BE MORE TAME. COOLER AIR WILL WORK IN BEHIND FRONT AND WITH THE PRECIP DROP TEMPS TO NEAR GUIDANCE NUMBERS IN THE MID 60S MOST AREAS. PRECIP WILL SLOWLY EXIT THE FA TO THE SE DURING THE DAY ON WED UNTIL UPPER TROF EXITS FA IN THE AFTN. WILL GO CHC POPS AND DIMINISH FROM NW TO SE DURING THE DAY. WITH CLOUDS HANGING ON FOR AT LEAST THE MORNING IN THE NORTH AND MUCH OF THE DAY IN THE SOUTH...HIGH TEMPS WILL ONLY REACH MID TO UPPER 70S ENTIRE FA. THIS IS IN BETWEEN COOLER MET AND WARMER MAV NUMBERS. DRY WEATHER THEN EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF FORECAST AS NEXT COLD FRONT SHOULD WASH OUT BEFORE IT REACHES US ON FRI. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 540 AM EST TUE JUL 26 2005 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-271100- 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- 540 AM EST TUE JUL 26 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED OVER CENTRAL INDIANA TODAY AND TONIGHT. PRESENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE. DAMAGING WINDS APPEAR TO BE THE MAIN THREAT...WITH LARGE HAIL A SECONDARY THREAT. AT THIS POINT...THE HIGHEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE FROM THE MID AFTERNOON HOURS UNTIL ABOUT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WHICH MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. IN ADDITION...THE COMBINATION OF HIGH HUMIDITY AND TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 90S WILL RESULT IN HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 100 TO 105 DEGREES DURING THE AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS...MAINLY SOUTHEAST OF A TERRE HAUTE TO TIPTON LINE. AT THIS POINT...SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .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 JAS
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 205 PM EST TUE JUL 26 2005 INZ021-028>031-270500- CARROLL-CLINTON-HOWARD-TIPPECANOE-WARREN- 205 PM EST TUE JUL 26 2005 ...MAINTENANCE IS SCHEDULED FOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO WXK 74... EXTENDED MAINTENANCE FOR WXK 74 AT YEOMAN INDIANA IS SET TO BEGIN ON WEDNESDAY JULY 27 2005. AS A RESULT WXK 74 WILL NOT BROADCAST ANY INFORMATION ON THIS FREQUENCY FROM WEDNESDAY UNTIL FRIDAY...JULY 29TH. THE TRANSMITTER WILL BE MOVED TO A NEW BUILDING AND A NEW BACK UP GENERATOR WILL BE INSTALLED.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
735 PM EST TUE JUL 26 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0732 PM TSTM WND GST PINE VILLAGE 40.45N 87.25W
07/26/2005 60 MPH WARREN IN AMATEUR RADIO
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CPPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
746 PM EST TUE JUL 26 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0741 PM TSTM WND DMG ATTICA 40.29N 87.25W
07/26/2005 FOUNTAIN IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES AND LIMBS DOWN
&&
SHAINESSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 755 PM EST TUE JUL 26 2005 INZ061>065-067>072-270110- BARTHOLOMEW-BROWN-DAVIESS-DECATUR-GREENE-JACKSON-JENNINGS-KNOX- LAWRENCE-MARTIN-MONROE- 755 PM EST TUE JUL 26 2005 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 688 HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. ADDITIONAL STORMS ARE EXPECTED MAINLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR ADDITIONAL UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WATCHES LATER TONIGHT.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 757 PM EST TUE JUL 26 2005 INZ042-048-049-053>057-060-270300- HANCOCK-HENRY-JOHNSON-MORGAN-OWEN-RANDOLPH-RUSH-SHELBY-SULLIVAN- 757 PM EST TUE JUL 26 2005 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 688 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EST...
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 68 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:58 UTC.
3 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning caused a fire on the front porch of a home.
Lightning caused a small fire at a home. No damage estimates were available.
Lightning caused a small fire at a home.
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, July 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: 5465184, 5465182, 5465183.