2 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 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 Jun 21, 5:57 AM EST, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 657 AM EDT WED JUN 21 2006 ...ACTIVE SEVERE WEATHER DAY EXPECTED W/OUTBREAK OF SVR STORMS EXPECTED... .AVIATION... COMPLEX SITUATION THIS AM W/UPSCALE CONVECTIVE TRENDS NOTED OVR ERN IA/NRN IL NORTH OF SFC WARM FRONT AND INADV OF SW TROUGH NOW INTO WRN IA. SFC BNDRY CONTS TO MIX RAPIDLY NWD AND HAS ABT CLEARED MOST OF CWA ATTM. PROBS FOR THIS TAF FCST RESIDE W/DVLPG UPSTREAM MCS EVOLUTION AND ITS IMPACTS FOR THIS AFTN. 00Z NAM-WRF HAD BEST HANDLE ON THIS MORNINGS DVLPMNT ESP W/CLUSTER THAT HAD DVLPD OVR SRN MI/NW OH AND IA ACTIVITY. CAPPING INVERSION MANIFESTED AS STEEP MID LVL LAPSE RATE PLUME IN UPSTREAM RAOBS AT 00Z NOW IN PLACE ACRS SW HALF OF CWA AND W/LOSS OF FOCUSING MECHANISM WILL LEAVE BOTH TAF SITES DRY UNTIL AFTN...ALTHOUGH TIMING STILL UP IN THE AIR PENDING HOW THINGS CONT TO EVOLVE LTR THIS AM. IN THE LEAST...TSRA W/MVFR CONDS XPCD FOR A TIME LT THIS AFTN AND EARLY EVENING W/HIGH END SVR THREAT LOOMING. WILL AWAIT 12Z GUIDANCE AND CONT TO MONITOR IA/IL STORMS BFR PINNING DOWN ANY PARTICULAR TIMING YET. && .SHORT TERM... N-S ELEVATED CONVN ALG ERN EDGE OF PLAINS EML PLUME THIS AM FM WRN LWR MI DOWN INTO CNTRL IN. DOUBT THIS WILL POSE MUCH OF A SHRT TERM PROB AND MORE CONCERNED W/UPSTREAM DVLPMNT TAKING PLACE FM SE IA INTO NRN IL ATTM. THESE STORMS CONT TO UNDERGO ORGANIZATION AND ASSUMING CONV COLD POOL FORMS SUFFICIENTLY...THEN A MORE COHERENT SVR THREAT IN FORM OF HAIL/WIND SHLD MATERIALIZE YET BFR DAYBREAK. OTHERWISE...WARM FRONTAL BNDRY CONTS TO MIX NWD AND NOW ARCHING FM CNTRL IL INTO SW OH. DOES NOT APPEAR MORNING CONV DEBRIS WILL POSE PROBLEMS IN TERMS OF ATTAINING ROBUST AFTN DESTABILIZATION W/ML CAPES APCHG 3K J/KG AND TREMENDOUS DEEP LYR SHEAR IN ASSOCN/W MCV AND MID LVL JET STREAK PROGRESSING OUT OF NEB. SUSPECT WKNG MCS OVR ERN NEB WILL REDEVELOP BY MID AM OVR IA AND THEN QUICKLY GO UPSCALE AS IT MOVES INTO NRN IL BY EARLY AFTN. DEGREE OF MSTR POOLING UNDERNEATH STEEP EML AND PROGGED INTENSITY OF MID LVL SPEED MAX SUGGEST A WIDESPREAD HIGH END WIND EVENT POSSIBLE W/MATURE SQUALL LINE AND VRY LARGE HAIL/ISOLD TORNADO THREAT W/EMBEDDED SUPERCELLS. SVR THREAT WILL CONT WELL INTO THIS EVENING ALG QUASI-STATIONARY BNDRY OR COMPOSITE BNDRY MODULATED BY MCS INDUCED OUTFLW W/BACKBUILDING DVLPMNT XPCD ALG SW FLANK OF MCS. && .LONG TERM... WITH A COLD FRONT BEING IN THE AREA ON THURSDAY...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL STILL HAVE THE CHANCE TO OCCUR. SOUNDINGS ARE SHOWING AMPLE MOISTURE AND LIFT AROUND YET. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS THE AREA IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY CONCERNS. CAPE VALUES UP TO 1500 J/KG...LI VALUES TO -4...SOME MODERATE LAPSE RATES ALSO. THE FRONT THEN SAGS SOUTHWARD THURSDAY NIGHT AS HIGH PRESSURE MOVES IN SOME DRIER AIR FROM THE NORTH. THERE ARE SOME MODEL DIFFERENCES FOR THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...SO NO MAJOR CHANGES WERE MADE. GFS IS SHOWING QPF/MOISTURE ON THURSDAY AND THEN BEGINS MOVING IT SOUTHWARD THURSDAY NIGHT AND EVEN FURTHER AWAY ON FRIDAY...WHEREAS THE NAM IS NOT SHOWING THAT MUCH QPF ON THURSDAY BUT SHOWS QPF FOR THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY AND DOESNT SHOW THE HIGH SHOWING ITS INFLUENCE AND BRINGING IN SOME DRIER AIR TIL FRIDAY NIGHT. THE NAM ALSO APPEARS TO KEEP THE FRONT FURTHER NORTH THAN THE GFS DOES. FOR EXAMPLE AT 12Z FRIDAY THE NAM SHOWS THE FRONT CUTTING THROUGH NORTHERN INDIANA WHEREAS THE GFS SHOWS IT AROUND SOUTHERN INDIANA. NO CHANGES WERE ALSO MADE TO SATURDAY TO TUESDAY. RIGHT NOW HIGH PRESSURE IS SHOWN TO BE OVER THE AREA FOR THEN WITH A POSSIBLE UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE MOVING THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY...BUT THE GFS IS SHOWING THIS SHORTWAVE TO BE DRY. && .IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. MI...NONE. OH...NONE. LM...NONE. && AVIATION/SHORT TERM...HOLSTEN LONG TERM....LOTHAMER
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 612 AM EDT WED JUN 21 2006 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-221015- 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 512 AM CDT WED JUN 21 2006 /612 AM EDT WED JUN 21 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A MODERATE RISK FOR FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE THE PRIMARY CONCERNS WITH AN ISOLATED TORNADO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR THESE STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE. DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL ARE THE PRIMARY CONCERNS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED TODAY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-061-221015- 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- 612 AM EDT WED JUN 21 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE THE PRIMARY CONCERNS WITH THESE STORMS. WIND AND WAVES WILL BE HIGHER IN AND NEAR THUNDERSTORMS. THERE IS ALSO AN INCREASED RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY WITH THE MOVEMENT OF SQUALL LINES ACROSS LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. WIND AND WAVES WILL BE HIGHER IN AND NEAR THUNDERSTORMS. THERE IS AN INCREASED RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ON THURSDAY WITH THE MOVEMENT OF SQUALL LINES ACROSS LAKE MICHIGAN. && 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
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
414 AM EDT WED JUN 21 2006
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0359 AM TSTM WND DMG SWAYZEE 40.51N 85.82W
06/21/2006 GRANT IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
POWER LINES DOWN.The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 149 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:43 UTC.
2 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A residence was struck by lightning, cause a fire which spread through much of the house, causing extensive damage to the house and an attached garage. Those in the home were able to escape without injury. Damage is estimated at around $80,000.
A empty barn was struck by lightning, resulting in a fire which destroyed the barn. An adjacent house suffered heat damage to the siding but the house, which was vacant, never caught fire. Damage for both is estimated at around $40,000.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Ohio in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, 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: 5513583, 5513584.