A series of damaging wind-producing severe thunderstorms moved through central Indiana on the evening of 17 June 2006. Fortunately, damage was mostly confined to downed trees and power lines.
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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.
A series of damaging wind-producing severe thunderstorms moved through central Indiana on the evening of 17 June 2006. Fortunately, damage was mostly confined to downed trees and power lines.
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 Jun 17, 5:55 PM EST, 2 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 655 PM EDT SAT JUN 17 2006 .AVIATION... FOR 180000Z TAFS...SCT TSRA ACROSS SOUTHERN INDIANA WILL MOVE N TOWARD THE TAF SITES EARLY IN THE PERIOD. THESE SHOULD DIMINISH EARLY WITH LOSS OF HEATING. UNLESS CERTAINTY INCREASES THAT A TAF SITE WILL BE HIT...WILL KEEP IT SIMPLE WITH VCTS. UPPER WAVE MOVES TOWARD SITES OVERNIGHT BRINGING A LIKELIHOOD OF MVFR SHRA/TSRA AFT 08Z OR SO. BRIEFLY LOWER VISIBILITIES POSSIBLE IN STRONGER STORMS...BUT NOT ENOUGH CONFIDENCE TO PUT IN TAFS. SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE AFT 18Z SUNDAY...BUT MAY SEE A WEAKENING TREND BY THEN. && .PREV DISCUSSION...UNSETTLED WX PTN XPCTD FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AS ONE SYS CURRENTLY OVR THE SRN PLAINS SHEARS OUT ACRS THE AREA ON SUN...WHILE A NRN STREAM SYS DROPS SEWD INTO THE GRTLKS ON MON. MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE MAIN DETAILS. FCST FOCUS CENTERS ON POPS THRU THE SHORT RANGE PD. IN THE NR TERM...AMS OVR THE LOCAL AREA STILL CAPPED OFF DUE TO RELATIVELY LO DEWPTS...BUT SFC WNDS HV VEERED TO A MORE S-SW DIRECTION...SO HIGHER DEWPTS OFF TO THE SW SHOULD BEGIN TO ADVECT IN. SOME BLDUPS/CONVECTION BEGINNING TO FORM OVR PARTS OF SRN IL/WRN KY/ERN MO...AND SOME OF THIS MAY MAKE IT INTO MAINLY THE WRN SECTIONS OF THE CWA BEFORE FADING OUT LTR THIS EVEN. OTRW...PRETTY DECENT LLJ ON THE ORDER OF 40-45KTS NOSING INTO THE WRN PARTS OF THE STATE LT TONIGHT SHOULD CAUSE MORE ORGANIZED PCPN TO BREAK OUT AFTER ABOUT 180900Z. WL GO WITH CHC POPS THIS EVEN TO COVER ANY DIURNAL ACTVTY...AND LIKELY POPS TOWARDS SUNRISE OVR THE WEST. IN THE LTR PDS...WL GO WITH HI POPS ON SUN AS LLJ AXIS CROSSES THE STATE. PCPN CHCS WL PROB DIMINISH SOME FM W TO E SUN AFT/NIGHT AS LLJ PUSHES OFF TO THE EAST. WL KEEP CHC POPS GOING INTO MON AS NRN STREAM SYS MOVS INTO THE AREA. LO LVL THICKNESSES AND TRAJECTORIES SUGGEST THE NGM MOS LOWS FOR TONIGHT ARE A LTL WARM...AND MAY BE A COUPLE OF DEGS TOO WARM ON THE HIGHS SUN GIVEN XPCTD PCPN. LTR PDS LOOK OK FOR NOW. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && PUBLIC...JAS AVIATION...CS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 415 PM EDT SAT JUN 17 2006 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-182015- 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-SULLIVAN-GREENE-MONROE-BROWN-BARTHOLOMEW- DECATUR-KNOX-DAVIESS-MARTIN-LAWRENCE-JACKSON-JENNINGS- 315 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006 /415 PM EDT SAT JUN 17 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL PUSH IN TO CENTRAL INDIANA THIS EVENING. AN ISOLATED BRIEF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CANNOT BE RULED OUT. THE MAIN THREAT FROM ANY STORMS THAT DO BECOME SEVERE WILL BE HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN MAY ACCOMPANY SOME OF THE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY MOST OF THE DAY ON SUNDAY. STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. WITH SUCH A HUMID AIRMASS IN PLACE...SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH. THERE WILL BE A CONTINUED CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS UNTIL MONDAY NIGHT. THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY WILL ALSO BRING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY INSTANCES OF SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) PUMA/JOHNSON
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 89 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:57 UTC.
8 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Small outbuildings were blown into a roadway, and power lines were downed.
Trees were downed.
Trees were downed throughout Brown County.
Four trees were downed.
Trees were downed.
Trees were downed.
Trees were downed.
Lightning struck a transformer on Tracy Road, causing a power outage lasting 11 hours.
Trees were downed along State Road 19 near the White River.
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, June 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: 5513668, 5513669, 5513670, 5513671, 5513672, 5513673, 5513674, 5513746, 5513745.