1 flash flood, 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 Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 10, 5:55 PM EST, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 655 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2006 .AVIATION... FORECAST FOR 00Z-00Z TAFS. SURFACE LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE SLOWLY NORTH ACROSS INDIANA KEEPING RAIN ACROSS THE TAF SITES THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. COULD BE SOME SCATTERED THUNDER BEFORE 06Z. SOME HINTS THAT MORE BREAKS IN RAIN WILL OCCUR AFTER ABOUT 18Z THU. CIGS AT FIRST MAY BOUNCE AROUND FROM VFR TO LOW MVFR BUT KEPT TAFS SIMPLE WITH MVFR CIGS PREDOMINANT. WILL HAVE SCT CLOUDS BELOW 1000 FT AS WELL. && .PREV DISCUSSION...FCST FOCUS ON SIGNIFICANT STORM SYSTEM THAT MAY BRING HEAVY RAIN...SLIGHT POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WX AND THEN FAIRLY STRONG WINDS TO THE AREA THROUGH THURSDAY. CURRENT STRONG STORM COMPLEXES TRACKING ACROSS GULF STATES HELPING LIMIT ACTIVITY UP THIS WAY. LOCALLY...SCATTERED STORMS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING IN WARMER AIR ACROSS NRN INDIANA AND ERN IL NOT FAR FROM SURFACE TROUGH...LIKELY AIDED BY SOME DIM SUNSHINE THRU CIRRUS. THIS APPEARS TO BE SIMILAR TO NAM FORECAST FOR LATE AFTN TODAY SO WILL LIKELY LEAN MORE TOWARD THIS MODEL SOLUTION INTO TONIGHT. ALSO SLOW MOVING STORMS AT TIME SUGGEST LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. MODELS COMING CLOSER TOGETHER ON SOLUTION...STILL WINDING UP A PRETTY STRONG SYSTEM FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR LATE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. MOST RECENT RUNS NOT QUITE AS STRONG AS PREVIOUS. CLOUDS AND RAIN HAVE ALSO LIMITED INSTABILITY TODAY AS WELL. END RESULT IS CAPES BELOW 1000...STILL DECENT HELICITY EARLY THIS EVENING AND COUPLED UPPER JET LATER TONIGHT LEADS TO MODERATE RAIN AMOUNTS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDER...AND STILL AN OUTSIDE CHANCE OF ISOLATED LOW END SEVERE WIND OR HAIL THROUGH EARLY MORNING. STILL WILL USE A BLEND OF GFS/ETA AND WIND UP LOW OVER SRN LOWER MICHIGAN THURSDAY AND SLOWLY RETROGRADE INTO FRIDAY. BIGGEST UNCERTAINTY WILL BE TIMING OF SHORT WAVES AROUND THE UPPER LOW TO ENHANCE CONVECTION. ALL MODELS REMAIN OVERCAST INTO WEEKEND THOUGH EXPECT GIVEN NATURE OF CLOSED LOWS THIS TIME OF YEAR...SHOULD BE SOME BREAKS IN CLOUDS AT TIMES AS WELL PCPN BEING SCATTERED AND MORE DIURNALLY BASED. SOMEWHAT CONCERNED DIURNAL TEMPS FCST TOO LARGE OF RANGE GIVEN EXPECTED CLOUDY...DAMP AND WELL MIXED CONDITIONS INTO WEEKEND. BUT GIVEN UNCERTAINTIES OF SHORT WAVE TIMING LEADING TO POSSIBLE PERIODS OF BREAKS IN CLOUDS BOTH DAY AND NIGHT...HAVE ONLY ADJUSTED MINS UP AND MAXS DOWN A DEGREE OR TWO AT MOST THRU THE FCST. LIKEWISE...GIVEN LATEST MODELS CONVERGING TO MORE COMMON SOLUTION GIVES ME MORE CONFIDENCE TO RAISE POPS JUST A BIT IN MOST PERIODS INTO SATURDAY AND TURN TO AREAL COVERAGE WORDING VERSUS CHANCE WORDING. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && PUBLIC...DRT AVIATION...CS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 733 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2006 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-111930- 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- 633 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006 /733 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT...MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE HEAVY RAIN...BUT A FEW TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE. HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL ACROSS AREAS NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70 AS WELL. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE...WHICH COULD LEAD TO FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. A FEW WIND GUSTS APPROACHING 40 MPH MAY OCCUR THURSDAY AFTERNOON AS THAT STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM SETTLES OVER SOUTHERN MICHIGAN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE)
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 55 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:10 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Water was over Highway 61 in Monroe City. No property damage was reported.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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