4 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 12, 7:15 PM EST, 8 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 715 PM EST SUN MAR 12 2006 TREND WITH ELEVATED CELL NEARING VPZ TO CONTINUE TO DECAY MOVING INTO DEEPER COLDER AIR NEAR LAKESHORE AND WITH WARMING IR TOPS PAST HOUR AND DECREASE REFLECTIVITY WILL NOT INCLUDE TSRA AT KSBN AND JUST PERIOD OF SHRA W/CB INITIALLY. 21Z RUC POINTING TO MORE DEFINITIVE TIMING WRT TO LLJ IMPINGING ON WARM FRONT WELL SOUTH OF CWA LATER TONIGHT AND WILL BEGIN TO SEE INCREASING NORTHERLY PUSH OF WARM SECTOR AS FRONT RANGE MID LEVEL TROF BEGINS LIFTING EAST AS 120 KT JET ROUNDS BASE OF TROF THROUGH TX/OK PANHANDLE. RESPONSE AT SURFACE/LOW LEVELS SEEN BEYOND 03Z AS DEEPENING SFC LOW LIFTS MORE RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AND NOSE OF 60KT JET NEAR KSTL AT 03Z STRENTHENS TO NEAR 70KTS/NEAR KLOT BY 06Z. WARM FRONTAL/ELEVATED ACTIVITY SHOULD INCREASE DRAMATICALLY AND WILL COVER PERIOD OF TEMPO TSRA AFTER MIDNIGHT AT KFWA/KSBN. INCREASED WINDS SLIGHTLY BEHIND FRONT IN DEEP MIXED LAYER/MOMENTUM XFER POTENTIAL. && .SHORT TERM... HIGHLY CONDITIONAL FCST THIS AFTN W/LONG LIVED SUPERCELL CONTG EWD OVR WRN IL ATTM. THIS STORM AND ASSOCD OUTFLW BNDRY WILL CERTAINLY DELAY IF NOT PREVENT NWD RTN OF SYNOPTIC WARM FNT OVR MO. IN ADDITION OLD MESOSCALE OUTFLW STUCK ALG THE OH RVR W/CONV CONTG ACRS FAR SRN INDIANA AND KY. COMBINATION OF THESE TWO MAY AGAIN KEEP BULK OF CONVECTION FM CNTRL IL/IN SOUTH W/LTL MATERIALIZING HERE THIS EVENING ALTHOUGH MUCH WILL DEPEND ON EXTENT OF DVLPMNT DOWN SOUTH GIVEN 70+KT PLUS LLJ PROGGED TO DVLP WHICH WOULD SURELY SPRT ELEVATED DVLPMNT UP HERE AND A DECENT LARGE HAIL THREAT. WILL CONT TO MONITOR UPSTREAM EVOLUTION TO GAUGE POSSIBLE EARLY EVENING ADJUSTMENTS AS NEEDED. OTHERWISE WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL LATE TONIGHT W/APCH OF STG UPR TROUGH AND SFC CDFNT BUT STABILIZATION OF SFC LYR BY THAT TIME NOT SUPPORTIVE OF MUCH OF A SVR THREAT BUT XPCD LINEAR SQUALL LINE MAY MAINTAIN ENOUGH INTENSITY GIVEN STG DEEP LYR FORCING TO MAINTAIN A WIND DAMAGE THREAT. THINGS MAY BECOME SOMEWHAT MORE FAVORABLE EARLY MON W/12Z SOLUTIONS SLWR YET ON ARRIVAL OF STG SFC CDFNT. HWVR W/NAM IMPLIED DESTABILIZATION THROUGH THE MORNING...UPR TROF BY THEN OUT RUNNING FRONT W/SFC LOW OCCLUDING INTO NRN MI AND OVERALL POOR UPR SPRT ALG SFC BNDRY SO DOUBT ANY DVLPMNT WILL OCCUR ALG THAT. MORE LIKELY PRE-FNTL CONVECTION WILL CARRY ON THROUGH TONIGHT WHILE WEAKENING BUT SOME INTENSIFICATION POSSIBLE DOWNSTREAM ACRS NW OH MON AM. THAT SAID GOING POP DELINEATION FOR MONDAY LOOKS GOOD. TEMPS ON THE OTHER HAND TRICKY W/STG CAA SPREADING IN BEHIND SFC BNDRY BUT SLWR ARRIVAL AND INSOLATION WITHIN EMERGING DRYSLOT WILL MAKE FOR YET ANOTHER MILD DAY AND WILL KILL AFTN POP. OTHERWISE TOO BUSY W/SVR POTENTIAL TO DEAL W/HIGH WIND THREAT MON AFTN/EVENING AND WILL DEFER TO MID SHIFT FOR MORE LIKELY ADVISORY ISSUANCE. SUFFICE IT TO SAY...VRY WINDY W/SFC GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH POSSIBLE MON AFTN. && .LONG TERM... MONDAY NIGHT THE LOW WILL BE PULLING AWAY TO THE NORTHEAST AS WRAP AROUND MOISTURE MOVES THROUGH OUR CWA. SOUNDINGS SHOWING MOISTURE BELOW 850MB. ONE CHANGE TO TOMORROW NIGHT WAS TO MAKE THE EVENING UP TO MIDNIGHT JUST RAIN AND NOT RAIN/SNOW DUE TO TEMPERATURES THEN BEING TOO WARM FOR SNOW. SOUNDINGS BACK THIS UP. THEN TEMPS AT THE SURFACE WILL BECOME COLD ENOUGH THAT ANY PRECIP THAT FALLS SHOULD BE IN THE FORM OF SNOW. NO CHANGES TO TUESDAY WITH THE NORTHWEST FLOW GIVING THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF THE CWA A CHANCE FOR SNOW. BUFKIT IS SHOWING 850MB DELTA T VALUES OF 13 TO 15 IN THE MORNING AND THEN LESS THAN THAT IN THE AFTERNOON. ALTHOUGH SNOW MAY BE PUSHING IT WITH SOUNDINGS SHOWING HARDLY ANY MOISTURE FOR TUESDAY. TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WED NIGHT WILL BE DRY THEN AS A SURFACE RIDGE IS IN PLACE. GFS/GEM/ECMWF ARE ALL FAIRLY CLOSE WITH THE TRACK OF THE LOW FOR THURSDAY...WITH THE LOW MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND THEN TO OHIO DURING THE DAY THURSDAY. HOWEVER THE GFS IS A LITTLE FASTER THAN THE GEM AND ECMWF ARE WITH THE MOVEMENT OF THE LOW. BY 00Z FRIDAY THE GFS HAS THE LOW INTO CENTRAL OHIO WHEREAS THE OTHER TWO HAVE THE LOW OVER CHICAGO. THEN BY 00Z SATURDAY ALL THREE MODELS EXIT THE LOW OFF OF THE EAST COAST AT APPROXIMATELY THE SAME AREA...WITH THE GFS HAVING THE LOW JUST A LITTLE FURTHER EAST. MADE NO CHANGES TO FRIDAY. WITH THE NORTHWEST TO NORTH WIND THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...BUT AT THIS EARLY POINT ITS A QUESTION AS TO WHETHER SNOW CAN BE SQUEEZED OUT OF THIS OR NOT. THEN ANOTHER HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE OVER THE AREA FOR THE WEEKEND. && .IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. MI...NONE. OH...NONE. LM...GALE WARNING 12 PM TO 6 PM EST MONDAY FOR LMZ043-LMZ046. && SHORT TERM...66 LONG TERM....98 AVIATION...MURPHY
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1219 PM EST SUN MAR 12 2006 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-131115- 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 1119 AM CST SUN MAR 12 2006 /1219 PM EST SUN MAR 12 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND THEN SPREAD NORTHEAST INTO NORTHWEST INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN BEFORE MIDNIGHT WITH A THREAT FOR LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED DAMAGING WINDS...ESPECIALLY WEST OF A COLDWATER TO PERU LINE. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO DEVELOP ALONG A INTENSIFYING WARM FRONT LIFTING NORTHWARD INTO MICHIGAN THIS EVENING WITH A THREAT FOR LARGE HAIL AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO POSSIBLE...PRIMARILY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 30 OVER INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN. A FEW STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER NORTHWEST INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN WITH RAIN AMOUNTS UP TO AN INCH AND MAY RESULT IN SOME MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL RIVERS...CREEKS...AND DITCHES AS WELL AS OTHER LOW LYING AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ONGOING ACROSS NORTHEAST INDIANA...SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHWEST OHIO DURING MONDAY MORNING. THUNDERSTORMS DURING THIS TIME FRAME SHOULD BE BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHEAST INDIANA...SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHWEST OHIO ONCE AGAIN MONDAY AFTERNOON AS A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THIS REGION. IF THESE STORMS DEVELOP...THERE WILL BE AN ISOLATED THREAT OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION ON MONDAY. LATER FORECASTS SHOULD BE MONITORED FOR A POSSIBLE WIND ADVISORY IF FORECAST GUSTS INCREASE TO 45 MPH OR HIGHER. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHWEST INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN. SPOTTERS ARE URGED TO MONITOR LATER FORECASTS FOR SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES AND WARNINGS. ALSO...SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT ANY FLOODING OR VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS TODAY THROUGH MONDAY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-061-131115- 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- 1219 PM EST SUN MAR 12 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT ACROSS THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND THEN SPREAD NORTHEAST THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY FORM A LINE AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST WITH LARGE HAIL POSSIBLE OVER LAKE MICHIGAN AND DAMAGING WINDS POSSIBLE OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PORTION OF LAKE MICHIGAN. ALSO...SOUTH WINDS WILL ALSO INCREASE TO 20 TO 25 KNOTS TONIGHT... POSING A HAZARD TO SMALL CRAFT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS LAKE MICHIGAN DURING MONDAY MORNING. WEST WINDS OF 20 TO 25 KNOTS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST MONDAY NIGHT. NORTHWEST WINDS WILL SUBSIDE BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. WAVES WILL BUILD IN EXCESS OF 4 FEET MONDAY...AND WILL CONTINUE IN EXCESS OF 4 FEET THROUGH WEDNESDAY. ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES REGION THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT. WINDS OF 15 TO 25 KNOTS AND WAVES GREATER THAN 4 FEET WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY NIGHT. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/IWX/PROGRAMAREAS/MARINE/INDEX.PHP
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 42 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:29 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees and power lines were reported down throughout the county.
Top 8 feet of a roughly 20 foot high, 14 inch diameter tree was broke off, falling into a private yard.
A survey of damage at the Maple Leaf Farms Distribution center, southeast of Milford, concluded that straight line winds were the cause of damage to a cold storage building. As winds striking the west side of the building interacted with the pressure within the cold storage vault, causing a vacuum that resulted in numerous panels, as well as insulation, being pulled off the building. The refrigeration equipment did not suffer any damage. However, much of its contents were exposed to the outside air, resulting in some loss of the food. Roof damage was also reported at 3 smaller buildings. As the winds continued east, trees and power lines were knocked down in an around Blueberry Island, on Dewart Lake. Damage is estimated at $250,000 at Maple Leaf Farms and roughly $15,000 on Blueberry Island.
Numerous trees were blown down along US-6 from the northwest part of the county towards Bremen. Also trees down and damage to a barn roof were reported in Bremen.
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, March 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: 5495497, 5495498, 5495499, 5495500.