1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 6, 2:00 PM EST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 200 PM EST WED JUL 6 2005 .SHORT TERM... CU FIELD SHOULD DECREASE IN COVERAGE A FEW HRS AFT SUNSET. SHRT WV WILL DIG SOUTHEASTWARD FROM MN OVRNT AND MOVE INTO THE AREA BY 12Z THU. MODELS NOW LEANING TOWARD A SHARPER TROF DVLPG OVR THE GREAT LAKES REGION AIDING IN MORE CLOUD FORMATION DURING THE DAY. THINKING MOSTLY CLDY/PARTLY SUNNY WILL WORK WITH H85 RH FIELDS >80% FOR THE DAY. COULD SEE OVERCAST SKIES FOR THE AM INTO EARLY PM IF SHRT WV AIDS IN A STRONGER TROF FORMING THAN MODELS SUGGEST. LOOKING AT FCST SOUNDINGS SUGGEST THE POSSIBILITY OF SHWRS AND A FEW RUMBLES DVLPG WITH PEAK HEATING WITH TIMING OF TROF. LOW LEVEL WINDS AND SFC MOISTURE ARE MARGINAL AT BEST...BUT CONVECTIVE TEMPS LOOK TO BE REACHED. THINKING MOST OF THIS ACTIVITY WILL BE IN THE FORM OF VIRGA AND LEFT POPS OUT OF FCST FOR NOW. NIGHT SHIFT MAY HAVE TO ADD POPS IN FOR TOMORROW IF WARRANTED. AS FOR TEMPERATURES...RAISED LOWS A FEW DEGREES WITH ANTICIPATION OF MORE CLOUD COVER TWDS THU AM. COOLED TEMPS OVER NE CWA INTO THE UPR 70S FOR MAXS WITH FOLLOWING WAM METHOD GUIDANCE...OTHERWISE LEFT MAXS ALONE. && .LONG TERM... STATUS QUO WITH THE LONG TERM GRIDS FOR NOW. DECENT SHORT WAVE WILL BE EXITING THE AREA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD...THURSDAY EVENING. CLEARING SKIES BEHIND BUT MODELS SHOWING ANOTHER SHORT WAVE DIVING AROUND BACK SIDE OF TROUGH ON FRIDAY. THIS SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO GENERATE DIURNAL CU FRIDAY...ESPECIALLY EAST. NAM RATHER AGGRESSIVE WITH A SHORT WAVE APPROACHING LATE SATURDAY AS IT TOPS THE CENTRAL RIDGE AND MOVES SOUTH ALONG EASTERN SIDE OF UPPER RIDGE. GFS ALSO INDICATING SOMETHING THERE BUT NOT AS AGGRESSIVE. WILL HOLD STEADY WITH DRY FORECAST FOR NOW. UPPER RIDGE THEN BUILDS INTO AREA EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH SLOW WARMING TREND AND MORE HUMID CONDITIONS. TROPICAL SYSTEM DENNIS THEN BECOMES A PLAYER FOR TUE AND WED. WITH NO CONFIDENCE IN MODEL SOLUTIONS DAY 6 AND 7 FOR TROPICAL SYSTEM THIS FAR INLAND...WILL CONTINUE WITH PERSISTENCE AND DRY...WARM FORECAST. OBVIOUSLY THIS LONG TERM FORECAST MAY NEED POPS AS CONFIDENCE INCREASES. && .AVIATION... VFR CU CONTINUES TO DVLP OVR NORTHERN IN THIS AFT WHILE MVFR STRATUS HOLDING OVER LWR MI. WINDS GENERALLY WILL BE OUT OF THE NE FOR THE REST OF THE DAYTIME. QUESTION REMAINS ON STRENGTH OF SFC BASED INVERSION TOWARDS 12Z THU WITH SHRT WV DIGGING SEWARD FROM UPR MIDWEST. FOR NOW LOWERED VSBY/CIGS TO MVFR COND DUE TO UNCERTAINTY OF HOW EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER WILL BE. && .IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .IN...NONE. .MI...NONE. .OH...NONE. .LK MI...NONE. && AVIATION/SHORT TERM...WAMSLEY LONG TERM...LASHLEY
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 448 AM EST WED JUL 6 2005 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-071000- ADAMS IN-ALLEN OH-ALLEN IN-BERRIEN MI-BLACKFORD IN-BRANCH MI-CASS MI- CASS IN-DE KALB IN-DEFIANCE OH-ELKHART IN-FULTON OH-FULTON IN- GRANT IN-HENRY OH-HILLSDALE MI-HUNTINGTON IN-JAY IN-KOSCIUSKO IN- LA PORTE IN-LAGRANGE IN-MARSHALL IN-MIAMI IN-NOBLE IN-PAULDING OH- PULASKI IN-PUTNAM OH-ST. JOSEPH MI-ST. JOSEPH IN-STARKE IN- STEUBEN IN-VAN WERT OH-WABASH IN-WELLS IN-WHITE IN-WHITLEY IN- WILLIAMS OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ANGOLA...ARCHBOLD...AUBURN... BENTON HARBOR...BENTON HEIGHTS...BERNE...BLUFFTON...BREMEN...BRYAN... BUCHANAN...BUTLER...COLDWATER...COLUMBIA CITY...DECATUR...DEFIANCE... DELPHOS...DOWAGIAC...DUNKIRK...DUNLAP...ELKHART...FAIR PLAIN... FAIRMOUNT...FORT SHAWNEE...FORT WAYNE...GARRETT...GAS CITY... GEORGETOWN...GOSHEN...GRANGER...GRISSOM AFB...GULIVOIRE PARK... HARTFORD CITY...HICKSVILLE...HILLSDALE...HUNTINGTON...KENDALLVILLE... KNOX...LA PORTE...LAGRANGE...LIGONIER...LIMA...LOGANSPORT...MARION... MICHIGAN CITY...MISHAWAKA...MONTICELLO...MONTPELIER...NAPOLEON... NAPPANEE...NEW HAVEN...NILES...NORTH MANCHESTER...OSSIAN...OTTAWA... PERU...PLYMOUTH...PORTLAND...ROCHESTER...SIMONTON LAKE... SOUTH BEND...ST. JOSEPH...STURGIS...SWANTON...SYRACUSE... THREE RIVERS...TRAIL CREEK...TRI-LAKES...UPLAND...VAN WERT... WABASH...WARSAW...WAUSEON...WESTVILLE...WINAMAC AND WINONA LAKE 448 AM EST WED JUL 6 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN INDIANA...NORTHWEST OHIO AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND 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. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES, OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-061-071000- 448 AM EST WED JUL 6 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. && 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), 25 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:43 UTC.
1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A trained spotter in the area observed several funnel clouds, one of which briefly touched down in an open field and dissipated. No damage could be found by the survey team associated with the touchdown.
While performing a survey on a possible tornado in the area, NWS personnel observed a few large trees damaged or uprooted as well as some corn stalks down on the south side of Hoffman Lake. Winds were estimated in the 60 to 65 mph range.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Indiana, 2005Warnings 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: 5469843, 5469842.