Hail, Tippecanoe
- When
- July 3, 4:05 PM EST to 4:07 PM EST
- Where
- Tippecanoe County, Stockwell
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.283, -86.767
Isolated severe thunderstorms caused minor wind damage and produced one inch diameter hail over northwest portions of central Indiana.
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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 episode as NWS IND wrote it up.
Isolated severe thunderstorms caused minor wind damage and produced one inch diameter hail over northwest portions of central Indiana.
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 3, 2:10 PM EST, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 310 PM EDT MON JUL 3 2006 .DISCUSSION...FORECAST FOCUS WILL BE ON THE CHANCE OF PRECIP OVER THE NEXT 48 HRS. AREA OF RAIN SHOWERS WAS MOVING EAST ACROSS NORTHERN INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON. THERE WAS A WEAK BOUNDARY FM CENTRAL IA TO NRN IL/IN. TSRA WERE OCCURRING INVOF THIS BNDRY. AS THIS BOUNDARY SINKS SOUTH IN RESPONSE TO THE COLD FRONT IN MN MOVING SOUTH THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF TSRA LATER TONIGHT. HAVE PUT HIGHER POPS IN THE NORTHERN TIER OF THE CWA CLOSER TO WHERE PRECIP IS ONGOING. MODELS HAVE AGAIN SLOWED THE TIMING OF A COLD FRONT TO PASS THROUGH CENTRAL INDIANA ON TUESDAY. WILL USE A BLEND AS THEY ARE NOT ALL THAT FAR FROM EACH OTHER. CDFNT WL BE NEAR LAF IN THE EARLY MORNING THEN SLOW DOWN OR WASH OUT OVER INDY LATER IN THE AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. WITH SLOW TIMING OF FRONT TSRA MAY NOT BE ORGANIZED UNTIL LATER TUESDAY EVENING. WILL KEEP A LIKELY POP GOING FOR MOST OF TUESDAY. AS FRONT FINALLY WORKS ITS WAY TO THE OHIO RIVER BY EARLY WED MORNING SOME LINGERING SHOWERS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM VINCENNES TO BMG AND SOUTH BUT ENDING BY LATE WED MORNING. THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK WILL BRING DRY WEATHER AND COOLER TEMPS AS A COOL UPPER LOW SINKS SOUTH. THURS NOW LOOKS LIKE THE COOLEST DAY WITH HIGHS IN THE LOW 80S. TEMPS TOMORROW WONT BE QUITE AS WARM AS TODAY AS CLOUD COVER WILL INHIBIT SUCH WARMING. DEWPOINTS WILL GET INTO THE UPPER 60S TO LOW 70S WHICH WILL MAKE FOR A HUMID DAY TUESDAY. && .AVIATION...DISCUSSION FOR 031800Z TAF ISSUANCE. EXPECT SCT TRWS TO DEVELOP BY EARLY AFTERNOON AS MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES ACRS THE BULK OF THE FA EXPECTED TO PUSH TEMPS TO NEAR 90 DEGREES BY 2 PM EDT. MODIFIED 12Z SOUNDINGS FM ILX AND ILN INDICATING CONVECTIVE TEMPS AROUND 88 DEGREES. ALSO...WEAK BOUNDARY ACRS NRN IN TO DROP SLOWLY S ...AND OLD CONVECTIVE OUTLFOWS ALONG WITH WEAK IMPULSES PASSING JUST TO OUR N SHOULD ALLOW SCT TRWS TO FIRE BY EARLY AFTERNOON AND CONT TNGT. CIGS SHOULD MAINLY BE VFR EARLY WITH POSSIBLY SOME TEMPO MVFR CIGS TNGT AND TOMORROW MRNG. WINDS SHOULD STAY UP ENOUGH TNGT TO AVOID ANY SIG FOG EXCEPT PERHAPS UNDER ANY TRW. MAIN FNT TO SWEEP ACRS CNTRL INDIANA TOMORROW AS WELL. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && PUBLIC...SALLY AVIATION...KOCH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED TYPO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 332 PM EDT MON JUL 3 2006 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-041945- CARROLL-WARREN-TIPPECANOE-CLINTON-HOWARD-FOUNTAIN-MONTGOMERY- BOONE-TIPTON-HAMILTON-MADISON-DELAWARE-RANDOLPH-VERMILLION-PARKE- PUTNAM-HENDRICKS-MARION-HANCOCK-HENRY-VIGO-CLAY-OWEN-MORGAN- JOHNSON-SHELBY-RUSH- 332 PM EDT MON JUL 3 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND...HAIL AND LIGHTNING THE MAIN THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL PASS THROUGH CENTRAL INDIANA MAKING THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY ON INDEPENDENCE DAY. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND...HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING THE MAIN THREAT. PRESENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE STORMS WILL BE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70 BY 1000 PM EDT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY ON INDEPENDENCE DAY. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) INZ060>065-067>072-041945- SULLIVAN-GREENE-MONROE-BROWN-BARTHOLOMEW-DECATUR-KNOX-DAVIESS- MARTIN-LAWRENCE-JACKSON-JENNINGS- 232 PM CDT MON JUL 3 2006 /332 PM EDT MON JUL 3 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND...HAIL AND LIGHTNING THE MAIN THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL PASS THROUGH CENTRAL INDIANA MAKING THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY ON INDEPENDENCE DAY. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND...HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING THE MAIN THREAT. PRESENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE STORMS WILL BE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM GREENSBURG TO BLOOMINGTON TO SULLIVAN BY 1100 PM CDT OR 1200 AM EDT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY ON INDEPENDENCE DAY. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) SALLY
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 76 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:06 UTC.
2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A large tree was downed.
Trees were downed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, July 2006
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: 5517358, 5517359, 5517360, 5517361.