1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 8, 5:50 PM EST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 550 PM EST THU SEP 8 2005 .AVIATION... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED ALONG A WEAK COLD FRONT OVER CENTRAL INDIANA EXTENDING NORTHEAST TO NORTHEAST OHIO AND ALONG THE LAKE BREEZE FROM LAKE MICHIGAN. ALL OF THIS ACTIVITY HAS STAYED AWAY FROM FORT WAYNE AND SOUTH BEND TERMINALS. THE REMAINING ACTIVITY WILL DISSIPATE SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET. A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX NOW OVER WESTERN ILLINOIS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHEAST OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. THE AIR AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM IS MORE STABLE WHICH WILL CAUSE THE SYSTEM TO WEAKEN OVERNIGHT...HOWEVER THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF A THUNDERSTORM TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHWEST INDIANA LATER TONIGHT. THAT CHANCE IS QUITE SMALL AND WILL BE INDICATED IN THE CLOUD IDENTIFIERAT SOUTH BEND...NO THUNDER IS EXPECTED AT FORT WAYNE. WITH LIGHT WINDS AND PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES EXPECTED TONIGHT THE CHANCE OF FOG WILL INCREASE TOWARD FRIDAY MORNING WITH MVFR VISIBILITY CONDITIONS POSSIBLE AT BOTH TERMINALS WITH A CHANCE OF IFR VISIBILITY AT SOUTH BEND. VFR CONDITIONS WILL RETURN FRIDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN ACROSS NORTHERN INDIANA. && .SHORT TERM... FORECAST CHALLENGE TONIGHT AND TOMORROW WILL BE MOVEMENT OF SHORT WAVE OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY CURRENTLY EXTENDING FROM NORTHEAST OHIO THROUGH CENTRAL INDIANA INTO CENTRAL ILLINOIS. KIWX RADAR HAS DETECTED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO. THESE SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH BY EVENING AS THEY ARE BEING PRODUCED BY DAY TIME HEATING. THE NEXT PROBLEM WILL BE THE MOVEMENT AND STRENGTH OF THE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX CURRENTLY OVER EASTERN IOWA. MOVEMENT OF THIS SYSTEM HAS BEEN TO THE SOUTHEAST WHICH WILL PUT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF OUR FORECAST AREA WITH THE BEST CHANCE FOR PRECIPITATION. GFS/NAM MODEL GUIDANCE PLACES PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST CORNER LATER TONIGHT AND INTO FRIDAY MORNING. NAM MODEL GUIDANCE IS MOST AGRESSIVE WITH POPS PUTTING CHANCE POP OVER THE FAR SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE FOREAST AREA. MAV GUIDANCE HAS EVEN LOWER NUMBERS. WITH THE COMPLEX MOVING ACROSS ILLINOIS ELECTED TO KEEP CURRENT FORECAST POPS SOUTHWEST IN TACK TONIGHT INTO EARLY FRIDAY MORNING AND EXTENDED FORECAST POPS EAST THIS EVENING. MADE FEW CHANGES TO THE REST OF THE FOREAST. KEPT TEMPS CLOSE TO MAV GUIDANCE NUMBERS. && .LONG TERM... FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. ALL LONG RANGE MODELS AGREE THAT THE UPR LVL FLOW ACRS NOAM WILL BECOME MORE AMPLIFIED THIS WEEKEND. SPECIFICALLY FOR THE GREAT LAKES AND OHIO VALLEY REGION...AN UPR LVL RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE REGION ON SATURDAY...BECOMING CENTERED AND REMAINING NEARLY STATIONARY OVER THE TN VLY REGION SUNDAY AND MONDAY. AS THE UPR RIDGE BUILDS INTO THE REGION...A WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL LIFT SW TO NE ACRS THE FCST AREA FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING. FORCING WITH THIS BOUNDARY SEEMS VERY WEAK AT THIS POINT IN TIME...SO HAVE KEPT FCST DRY. OTHERWISE...MOSTLY SUNNY DAYS/MOSTLY CLEAR NIGHTS CAN BE EXPECTED OVER THE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. 12Z GFS AND 12Z NAM...AS IS TYPICAL...DIFFER ON THE AMOUNT OF WARMTH FCST AT THE 850 MB. FOR EXAMPLE...THE NAM SHOWS A +18.5 C NEAR KSBN AT 12Z SUN WHILE THE GFS SHOWS A +16.5 C. USUALLY IN THIS SITUATION...A BLEND OF THE TWO MODELS IS THE WAY TO GO...AND HAVE DONE SUCH FOR HIGHS AND LOWS SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. TEMPS SHOULD APCH 90 DEGREES ALL LOCATION SUNDAY INTO TUESDAY...WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE LOWER AND MID 60S. && .IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. MI...NONE. OH...NONE. LM...NONE. && SHORT TERM/AVIATION...GLL LONG TERM...HICKMAN
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 515 AM EST THU SEP 8 2005 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-091015- 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 515 AM EST THU SEP 8 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN INDIANA...NORTHWEST OHIO AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE WILL BE A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. TONIGHT THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST INDIANA...MAINLY WEST OF A LINE FROM MICHIGAN CITY TO PERU. NONE OF THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY 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 LMZ043-046-061-091015- 515 AM EST THU SEP 8 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY 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 HITCHCOCK
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 30 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:41 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a residence on County Road 31 Thursday evening, sparking a fire in the attic. Fire crews extinguished this fire, but another area ignited several hours later, eventually spreading through the remainder of the house, causing a total loss of the house.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5471952.