2 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 Apr 13, 6:30 PM EST, 7 hours 32 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 730 PM EDT THU APR 13 2006 .AVIATION... PRIMARY CONCERN FOR THE 00Z TAF PACKAGE WILL BE CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL AND TIMING OVERNIGHT. SURFACE OBSERVATIONS LATE THIS AFTERNOON SHOW RAPID LOW LEVEL MOISTURE RETURN ONGOING WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI WITH LOW 60S SURFACE DEWPOINTS AS FAR NORTH AS CENTRAL IOWA. THIS COMBINED WITH SURFACE TEMPS CLIMBING INTO THE MID/UPPER 80S COUPLED WITH STEEP MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES IS CONTRIBUTING TO MODERATE TO STRONG INSTABILITY. RAPID TOWERING CU DEVELOPMENT NOTED ACROSS IOWA WITH MID LEVEL VERTICAL DEVELOPMENT ACROSS SE MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN. EXPECT CONVECTIVE INITIATION THIS EVENING IN THIS AREA WITH INITIAL CELLULAR MODE. DEVELOPMENT OF NOCTURNAL LOW LEVEL JET AND ASSOCIATED MASS CONVERGENCE AT ITS NOSE COUPLED WITH FAVORABLE SHEAR PROFILES SHOULD LEAD TO UPSCALE GROWTH INTO AN MCS OVERNIGHT. MCS WILL PROPAGATE ESE ALONG MID LEVEL PARTIAL THICKNESSES AND PARALLEL TO INSTABILITY GRADIENT OVERNIGHT. WILL CONTINUE WITH A FEW HOURS OF TSRA MENTION OVERNIGHT. OTHERWISE TAFS WILL BE DRY WITH ANY DIURNAL CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT FRIDAY AFTERNOON REMAINING SOUTH OF THE TERMINALS ALONG CONVECTIVELY MODULATED LOW LEVEL BOUNDARY. && .SHORT TERM... TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE IN THE SHORT TERM LIES AROUND CONVECTIVE AND SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL OVERNIGHT. RAPID LOW LEVEL MOISTURE RETURN IS UNDERWAY TODAY ACROSS MISSOURI AND IOWA WITH LOW 60S DEWPOINTS NOW PENETRATING SOUTHERN IOWA. 12Z NAM IS LIKELY OVERDONE WITH MOISTURE POOLING OVERNIGHT...BUT EVEN A MODIFIED NAM SOLUTION STILL YIELDS MODERATE INSTABILITY UPSTREAM OVER THE UPPER MIDWEST BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. NAM DEVELOPS A STRONG LOW LEVEL JET OVERNIGHT WHICH VEERS WITH TIME TO A NEAR E/W ORIENTATION BY 12Z FRI. AFTER INITIAL CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT OVER SE MINNESOTA/WESTERN WISCONSIN THIS EVENING EXPECT IMPRESSIVE MOISTURE POOLING AND MASS CONVERGENCE ON THE NOSE OF THE LLJ WILL PROMOTE UPSCALE GROWTH INTO AN MCS OVERNIGHT. DEGREE OF AVAILABLE ELEVATED INSTABILITY UPSTREAM OF THE DEVELOPING MCS COUPLED WITH FAVORABLY COOL MID LEVEL TEMPS SHOULD SUPPORT A HAIL THREAT. IN ADDITION...IF AN ORGANIZED COLD POOL CAN DEVELOP THERE WILL BE A COHERENT DAMAGING WIND THREAT WITH ANY LARGE SCALE BOWS OR BOWING SEGMENTS GIVEN FAVORABLE 60-65 KNOT 0-6KM BULK SHEAR. HAVE RESTRICTED TIMING TO MAINLY AFTER MIDNIGHT...AND RAISED POPS TO CATEGORICAL WITH A GENERIC SEVERE WEATHER MENTION. FOR FRIDAY EXPECT ANY CONVECTION FROM OVERNIGHT TO BE GONE BY 00Z. OVERNIGHT CONVECTION WILL SUBSTANTIALLY MODULATE THE PSEUDO WARM FRONT DRAPED OVER THE REGION LATE THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT CONVECTION TO DRIVE THIS BOUNDARY WELL SOUTH ALONG CONVECTIVE/MCS OUTFLOW BY FRIDAY MORNING. WHILE TEMPERATURES WILL STILL BE WARM NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY LOW LEVEL DEWPOINTS WILL DROP SIGNIFICANTLY. GIVEN THIS EXPECTATION...HAVE REMOVED ALL POPS FOR FRIDAY WITH FOCUS FOR CONVECTION ALONG EXPECTED OUTFLOW POSITION FROM CENTRAL IN/IL SOUTHWARD. FRIDAY NIGHT CONTINUED SOUTHERLY FLOW MAY ALLOW THIS BOUNDARY TO LIFT FAR ENOUGH NORTH TO BRING A CHANCE OF SHRA/TSRA INTO THE S/SW HALF OF THE CWA AND WILL RETAIN THE CHANCE POPS MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF ROUTE 30. && .LONG TERM... SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY AMPLIFIED BUT PROGRESSIVE PATTN CONTS IN PLACE THROUGH THE EXTENDED BUT LOOKING MORE UNSETTLED W/GULF OF MEXICO COMING BACK INTO EQUILIBRIUM AND BTR LOOKING MSTR RTN W/TIME. PRIMARY ONGOING DIFFICULTY IS W/WAVERING FNTL ZONE FRI NIGHT/SAT AND THEN EJECTION OF DEEP SW TROUGH OFF THE CA COAST THIS AFTN INTO THE WRN LAKES SUNDAY. IMPROVING LL MSTR RTN AND PROXIMITY OF SFC BNDRY DOWNSTREAM OF INTENSE MID/UPR LVL LOW CLOSING OFF BACK WEST ACRS IA CERTAINLY PORTENTS A GOOD CHC OF TSRA LATER SUNDAY. HWVR PLACEMENT OF MID LVL CIRCULATION AND EWD TRACK INTO MON STILL UNCERTAIN W/AS YET STILL FAIR MODEL DISAGREEMENT. THEREFORE WILL CONT TO PLAY THINGS ON THE CONSERVATIVE SIDE SUN AFTN/NIGHT. BEFORE THEN CLEAR LACK OF LL FOCUS TO SUBSTANTIATE GOING POPS SAT AFTN/EVENING. SUN AM QUESTIONABLE AS WELL BUT RETAINED MAINLY FOR CONSISTENCY AT THIS POINT. BEYOND THAT...ANOTHER ENERGETIC SYS PROGGED TO TRANSLATE EWD ACRS NOAM MID WEEK BUT MODEL TIMING/PLACEMENT ISSUES AT THIS POINT OUT THE FUTILITY OF TRYING TO NARROW AN OTHERWISE NEEDED POP/WX MENTION. TEMPS THROUGH THE PD WILL REMAIN ABOVE TO MUCH ABOVE SEASONABLE NORMS. && .IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. MI...NONE. OH...NONE. LM...NONE. && SHORT TERM/AVIATION...HITCHCOCK LONG TERM...HOLSTEN
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 537 AM EDT THU APR 13 2006 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-140945- 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 437 AM CDT THU APR 13 2006 /537 AM EDT THU APR 13 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE TONIGHT WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH AND HAIL TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER IN THE STRONGEST STORMS. A LARGE CONVECTIVE COMPLEX IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP ACROSS MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN THIS EVENING AND THEN MOVE SOUTHEAST. THE STORMS WILL REACH SOUTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN LATE THIS EVENING AND THEN OVERSPREAD THE REGION OVERNIGHT...REACHING NORTHWEST OHIO AFTER MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND FRIDAY NIGHT...AND SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY. THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STORMS EXISTS...ESPECIALLY LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON INTO FRIDAY EVENING AND AGAIN SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH THE DAY SUNDAY. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY TONIGHT. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-061-140945- 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- 537 AM EDT THU APR 13 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE TONIGHT WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH AND HAIL TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER IN THE STRONGEST STORMS. WINDS AND WAVES WILL BE HIGHER IN THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND FRIDAY NIGHT...AND SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/PROGRAMAREAS/MARINE/INDEX.PHP
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:03 UTC.
2 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a barn north of Geneva shortly after 3 am EDT. The barn was a total loss from the resultant fire. In addition, four horses, two or three calves and several grown pigs were killed as well as several pieces of farm equipment being destroyed. Damage is estimated at around $250,000.
Lightning struck a pole and traveled into a residence south of Van Buren, resulting in a fire breaking out in insulation. Significant damage occurred as a result of the fire, but no damage estimates were available. The residents of the home were able to escape without injury.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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