Severe storms moved through central Indiana during the afternoon and early evening hours of August 6, 2007. The main damage was caused by damaging thunderstorm winds.
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The episode as NWS IND wrote it up.
Severe storms moved through central Indiana during the afternoon and early evening hours of August 6, 2007. The main damage was caused by damaging thunderstorm winds.
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 Aug 6, 1:20 PM EST, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 220 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2007 .DISCUSSION...UPPR LVL PTN TO REMAIN UNCHANGED FOR THE MOST PART FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. AN UPPR LVL HI WL CONT OVR THE TN VLY RGN...WHILE THE MAIN BELT OF WESTERLIES REMAINS NR THE CANADIAN BORDER. WAVY FRONTAL SYS ACRS THE SRN GRTLKS XPCTD TO DRFT BACK AND FORTH AS IMPULSES RIPPLE ALONG THE FNT. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT. FCST FOCUS CENTERS ON POPS. IN THE NR TERM...ELONGATED VORT MAX STRETCHED OUT ACRS THE LOCAL AREA EXTENDS BACK W TO A WEAKENING MCV OVR WRN IL. THIS FEATURE WL DRFT EWD INTO THE AREA TONIGHT. AMS QUITE UNSTABLE...SO SCT ACTVTY WL PROB DVLP LTR THIS AFT/EVEN ACRS THE AREA WITH THE APPROACH OF THE MCV. MORE IMPORTANT IMPULSE CURRENTLY LOCATED ACRS NEBRASKA CAUSING TSTM COMPLEX CURRENTLY OVR SWRN IA. LOCATION OF INSTABILITY AXIS AND ORIENTATION OF LLJ TONIGHT SUGGESTS ACTVTY ASSOCIATED WITH THIS IMPULSE WL TRACK ACRS NRN IND OVERNIGHT. WL CONT WITH CHC POPS TONIGHT...HIGHEST IN THE N. IN THE LTR PDS...ANY LINGERING ACTVTY MAY TEND TO DIMINISH DURG THE MORN HRS AS UPPR SUPPORT PUSHES OFF TO THE E...BUT AMS REMAINS QUITE UNSTABLE ON TUES...ESPECIALLY N. MSLP PANELS OFF THE MODELS SUGGEST THE FNT OR CONVECTIVE OUTFLOWS MAY BE ACRS THE AREA INTO WED NIGHT...ALTHOUGH WITH SOME SHORT WV RDGG MOVG IN BEHIND DEPARTING IMPULSE...THERE MAY A RELATIVE MIN IN ACTVTY TOWARDS THE MIDDLE OF WEEK. WL CONT WITH CHC POPS THRU THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK...ESPECIALLY OVR THE NRN/CENTRAL SECTIONS. LO LVL THICKNESSES SUGGEST THE NGM MOS HIGHS FOR TUES/WED MAY BE ABOUT 5 DEGS ON THE COOL SIDE. HEADLINES ON THE HEAT MAY BE NEEDED OVR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS WITH THE HEAT INDEX APPROACHING/EXCEEDING ADVISORY CRITERIA OVR THE SW HALF OF THE CWA. && .AVIATION... DISCUSSION FOR 18Z TAFS. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL INDIANA WILL SPREAD EAST TOWARDS CENTRAL INDIANA ALONG AN AXIS OF HIGHER DEWPOINTS. MODELS INDICATE BEST CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LATER PART OF THIS AFTERNOON OVER ALL BUT KLAF. THEN THERE MAY BE A SECONDARY MAXIMUM CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR KIND AND KHUF NORTHWARD LATE TONIGHT AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TRACKS INTO THE SOUTHERN GREAT LAKES. SINCE ANY THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRENCE WILL ONLY BE IN CHANCE CATEGORY WILL ONLY MENTION VCTS FOR NOW. SOME CLEARING MAY OCCUR TOWARDS SUNRISE AND VSBYS LIKELY WILL DROP INTO AT LEAST THE MVFR CATEGORY TEMPORARILY AROUND SUNRISE TUESDAY FROM AREAS OF FOG. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && AVIATION...JH PUBLIC...JAS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 325 AM EDT MON AUG 6 2007 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-071000- 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- 325 AM EDT MON AUG 6 2007 /225 AM CDT MON AUG 6 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT NORTH OF A SULLIVAN TO SEYMOUR LINE. LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AT TIMES INTO FRIDAY. NO DAMAGING WIND OR HAIL IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO TOP OUT IN THE 90S ALL THIS WEEK. THE HEAT COMBINED WITH DEW POINT TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER 70S WILL ALLOW THE HEAT INDEX TO EXCEED 100 AT TIMES DURING THE AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) KOCH
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 253 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2007 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-070400- 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- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LAFAYETTE...FRANKFORT...KOKOMO... CRAWFORDSVILLE...ANDERSON...MUNCIE...INDIANAPOLIS...TERRE HAUTE... SHELBYVILLE...BLOOMINGTON...COLUMBUS...VINCENNES...BEDFORD... SEYMOUR 253 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2007 /153 PM CDT MON AUG 6 2007/ ...VERY HOT CONDITIONS EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THURSDAY... HIGH TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO RISE INTO THE 90S FROM TUESDAY INTO THURSDAY. THESE TEMPERATURES...COMBINED WITH HIGH HUMIDITY...WILL RESULT IN HEAT INDEX VALUES RANGING FROM AROUND 100 DEGREES IN THE KOKOMO AND MUNCIE AREAS...TO AROUND 105 DEGREES IN THE TERRE HAUTE...VINCENNES...AND BEDFORD AREAS. THIS COMBINATION OF HEAT AND HUMIDITY MAY CREATE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS OUTDOOR CONDITIONS AT TIMES DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS OF TUESDAY... WEDNESDAY...AND THURSDAY. JAS
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 56 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:58 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds caused damage to the wood baffling of the Indiana State Police firearms range. The sound system was also destroyed.
A tree that was three feet in diameter fell onto four cars parked at the correctional facility. All four cars were totaled.
Trees and power lines were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
Lightning struck and downed power lines at the corner of Brown-Delaware and 11th streets.
Lightning struck a retirement home in Chesterfield.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, August 2007
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: 47461, 47463, 47464, 47466, 47462.