1 lightning, 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 Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 27, 12:50 PM EST, 10 hours 46 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1250 PM EST WED JUL 27 2005 .DISCUSSION...PROBLEM OF DAY IS TEMPS TONIGHT. ITS NOT MUCH OF A PROBLEM. BUT NUMERICAL MODELS AND GUIDANCE ARE VERY CLOSE FOR SEVERAL DAYS. 12Z RAOBS SHOWED WELL DEFINED SYSTEM FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR THAT THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO HANDLE. NOT A VERY CHALLENGING SITUATION BUT TONIGHTS LOWS COULD BE COOLEST SINCE MAY. TRAJECTORIES FROM LAST NIGHTS MINS WOULD SAY MET/MAV IS WAY TO GO TONIGHT. DEWPOINT TRENDS WOULD SUPPORT COOLER FWC. HOWEVER SINCE MOST OF CWA GOT A HALF INCH TO AN INCH LAST NIGHT...DEWPOINTS WILL LIKELY MODIFY FROM WHAT PURE ADVECTION WOULD INDICATE. IN OTHER WORDS...FCST MINS TONIGHT WILL FROM MID 50S NORTHERN CWA TO UPPER 50S OR NEAR 60 SOUTH. AFTER TONIGHT...GUIDANCE QUITE CLOSE AND WILL TAKE CONSENSUS. BASED ON WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN THIS AIRMASS...MOSTLY CLEAR NIGHTS AND PC DAYS INTO FRIDAY. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && KWIATKOWSKI
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 830 PM EST WED JUL 27 2005 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-281100- 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- 830 PM EST WED JUL 27 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT OUR WEBSITE... HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/IND JAS/JB
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 45 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:35 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning sparked a fire which severely damaged a home. No damage estimates were available.
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: 5465009.