1 flash flood, 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 Sep 19, 2:50 PM EST, 3 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 250 PM EST MON SEP 19 2005 .SHORT TERM... ALL EYES FOCUSED BACK W ACRS IL EARLY THIS AFTN W/ESCALATING CONVN ALG CDFNT AS UPR TROF DIGS ACRS NRN WI. OF CONCERN REMAINS AM CONVECTIVELY INDUCED OUTFLW LAID OUT ACRS WRN CWA AND POTENTIAL FOR CONTD BACKED LL FLW ALG COOL SIDE OF OUTFLW BNDRY LT THIS AFTN AND ENHANCED TOR THREAT W/WARM SECTOR DESTABILIZING RAPIDLY. 18Z ILX RAOB QUITE CAPPED BUT MODIFIED PER 19Z OBS REDUCED SUFFICIENTLY TO WARRANT POPS THROUGH SRN CWA YET BFR 00Z. ASIDE DISCRETE TOR THREAT...STG MID LVL SPEED MAX TRANSLATING EWD OUT OF IA ALG SRN PERIPHERY OF LG SCALE UPR TROF AXIS AND DEGREE OF DESTABILIZATION TAKING PLACE ATTM QUITE FAVORABLE FOR COHERENT SEVERE WIND/HAIL RISK THROUGH EARLY EVENING. AGAIN BEST CHCS RELEGATED ACRS NW TWO THIRDS WHERE TIMING AND DEGREE OF FORCING BEST. WILL MAKE LAST MINUTE DECISIONS ON WX/POP COVERAGE BASED ON WRN RADAR TRENDS. OTHERWISE...COLD FNT TO CROSS OVERNIGHT W/PRECIP ENDING SE AFT MIDNIGHT. BRIEF CAA AND STG MIXING OVR THE LAKE SHLD PROMOTE DECENT WAVES W/SCA KEPT UNTIL NOON TUE W/LL FLW QUICKLY BACKING BY THEN. && .LONG TERM... WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... WEATHER PATTERN OVER THE MIDWEST AND GREAT LAKES CONTINUES TO BE HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY A STRONG MID LEVEL RIDGE CURRENTLY OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. THIS FEATURE WILL BE REINFORCED BY AN UPPER TROF OVER THE WEST COAST. EXPECT THE TROF TO BE REINFORCED BY A STRONG SHORT WAVE CURRENTLY SEEN ON WATER VAPOR LOOP OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA. THE SHORT WAVE WILL DROP INTO THE WEST COAST TROF INTENSIFY BOTH IT AND THE DOWNSTREAM MID LEVEL RIDGE. HOW STRONG THE TROF/RIDGE COUPLET GETS WILL DETERMINE WHAT KIND OF WEATHER THE WESTERN LOWER GREAT LAKES REGION WILL HAVE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. CURRENTLY THE AREA IS UNDER THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE WESTERLIES. ONCE THE HIGH PRESSURE WHICH WILL GIVE THE AREA A DRY AND WARM DAY ON WEDNESDAY...MOVES EAST ON THURSDAY...A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH FROM THE NORTHERN PLAINS...THE STRENGTH AND POSITION OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS RIDGE WILL DETERMINE HOW FAR SOUTH THE FRONT GETS. OF THE MODEL GUIDANCE...THE ECMWF IS PREFERRED BECAUSE IT SLOWS AND WEAKENS THE SHORT WAVES EMBEDDED IN THE WESTERLIES AND HAS A BETTER HANDLE IN BUILDING THE UPPER RIDGE IN RESPONSE TO THE STRENGTHENING WEST COAST TROF. STILL THERE IS A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY IN THE FORECAST. THE THAT IN MIND...THE ONLY CHANGES MADE TO THE CURRENT FORECAST WAS TO ADD POPS FRIDAY AND SOME MINOR TEMPERATURE CHANGES. BOTH THE ECMWF AND GFS ARE SIMILAR IN PUSHING THE COLD FRONT INTO THE AREA FRIDAY. BEYOND FRIDAY...UNCERTAINTY GROWS...WITH HIGH UNCERTAINTY CONCERNING THE LOCATION OF THE FRONT AND THE POSITION OF THE WESTERLIES...ELECTED TO KEEP SATURDAY... SUNDAY AND MONDAY DRY FOR NOW. && .AVIATION... SURFACE COLD FRONT CURRENTLY EXTENDING FROM NORTHEAST IOWA TO NORTHWEST MISSOURI WILL MOVE ACROSS THE LOWER GREAT LAKES LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BREAK OUT AHEAD OF THE FRONT AS IT MOVES EAST. THERE IS A CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER LATER THIS AFTERNOON AS SKY CLEARS...ALLOWING DESTABILIZATION OF THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS NORTHERN INDIANA...WOLCOTT WIND PROFILER SHOWING 50 KNOT WINDS AT ABOUT 5KT FEET ABOVE THE SURFACE. LOW LEVEL COOL POOL LEFT FROM THIS MORNINGS THUNDERSTORMS WILL QUICKLY ERODE THIS AFTERNOON ALLOWING MIXING OF WINDS TO THE SURFACE. WINDS WILL BE GUSTY THIS AFTERNOON AND MVFR VISIBILITY AT BOTH FORT WAYNE AND SOUTH BEND WILL QUICKLY DISSIPATE. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH SEVERE POTENTIAL WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON. THE BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE WOULD BE OVER NORTHWEST INDIANA. WHICH HAS BEEN INDICATED FOR SOUTH BEND. THE FRONT IS FAST MOVING AND WILL BE EAST OF NORTHERN INDIANA LATER THIS EVENING ALLOWING FOR CLEARING SKIES OVERNIGHT WITH A CHANCE OF SOME FOG TOWARD MORNING. && && .IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE MI...NONE OH...NONE LM...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FROM NOON MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON FOR LMZ043-LMZ046. && SHORT TERM...HOLSTEN AVIATION/LONG TERM...GLL
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1230 PM EST MON SEP 19 2005 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-201015- 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 1230 PM EST MON SEP 19 2005 /1230 PM CDT MON SEP 19 2005/ /130 PM EDT MON SEP 19 2005/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS AN INCREASING RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN. STRONG HEATING AND RAPID DESTABILIZATION IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AS SKIES RAPIDLY CLEAR AHEAD OF THE ADVANCING COLD FRONT MOVING OUT OF IOWA. THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN IOWA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WILL CONTINUE TO EXPAND AND INTENSIFY AS THEY MOVE EASTWARD...WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED INTO NORTHWEST INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN AFTER 4 PM EST... AND SPREADING EAST INTO OHIO AFTER 8 PM EDT. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH AND LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS APPEAR TO BE THE PRIMARY THREATS... HOWEVER A DISCRETE RISK FOR TORNADOES EXISTS WEST AND NORTH OF A LOGANSPORT TO DEFIANCE LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY NIGHT. IT IS TOO EARLY AT THIS TIME TO DETERMINE THE SEVERE RISK OF THESE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY BY LATE AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-061-201015- 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- 1230 AM EST MON SEP 19 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS AN INCREASING RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN IOWA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WILL CONTINUE TO EXPAND AND INTENSIFY AS THEY MOVE EASTWARD...WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN AFTER 4 PM EST. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS APPEAR TO BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. A COLD FRONT WILL PASS ACROSS LAKE MICHIGAN LATE THIS EVENING WITH NORTHWEST WINDS INCREASING TO 30 KNOTS CREATING WAVES OF 4 TO 8 FEET AFTER MIDNIGHT. THIS WILL POSE A HAZARD TO SMALL CRAFT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DIMINISH TUESDAY MORNING. HOWEVER...WAVES OF 4 TO 8 FEET ARE STILL EXPECTED IN THE MORNING...THEN THEY WILL SUBSIDE INTO THE 2 TO 4 FOOT RANGE BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. THIS WILL POSE A HAZARD TO SMALL CRAFT. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY NIGHT. IT IS TOO EARLY AT THIS TIME TO DETERMINE THE SEVERE RISK OF THESE STORMS. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/MARINE HOLSTEN
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 108 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:49 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Water was reported flowing over several county roads, making some of these impassable.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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