Severe storms caused wind damage across portions of central Indiana.
Every event with a place to put it. 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 episode as NWS IND wrote it up.
Severe storms caused wind damage across portions of central Indiana.
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 Jul 19, 6:28 AM EST, 5 hours 37 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 728 AM EDT THU JUL 19 2007 .AVIATION...DISCUSSION FOR 12Z TAFS LOW CONFIDENCE FORECAST AS EVOLUTION OF DECAYING MCS AND ITS EFFECTS ON AFTERNOON CONVECTION QUITE UNCERTAIN. ONE AREA OF SHRA/TSRA NEAR IND/LAF TAF SITES ON ITS WAY OUT AT 12Z BUT DECAYING MCS APPROACHING INDIANA FROM IL AND MORE LINED UP BEHIND. TIME OF DAY FAVORS THE DECAY OF THESE MCS/S...BUT FRONT UP NORTH AND APPROACHING WAVE MAY HAVE AN IMPACT. IN THE NEAR TERM WILL GO PREVAILING MVFR VSBYS AT LAF IN SHRA AS LAF LOOKS TO HAVE MOST EFFECTS FROM IL MCS. SO FAR TSRA HAVE JUST BARELY MISSED IND. TREND MAY CONTINUE. WILL GO VCTS FOR IND. FARTHER SOUTH HUF AND BMG LOOK TO BE OUT OF THE WAY SO WILL JUST INCLUDE CB MENTION. WILL GO WITH MCS DIMINISHING DURING THE MORNING ALLOWING FOR PERHAPS A FEW DRY HOURS BEFORE UPPER WAVE PERHAPS KICKS OFF MORE TSRA. WITH THE UNCERTAINTY IN ATMOSPHERE/S ABILITY TO RECOVER WILL GO VCTS OR CB. AFTER FROPA EXPECT A PERIOD OF MVFR CIGS BEFORE DRIER AIR WINS OUT. && .DISCUSSION... THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHERN OHIO MESO SCALE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WAS EXITING OUT OF THE NORTHEAST PORTIONS OF OUR FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING. THE NEXT MCS WAS ACROSS IOWA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST ILLINOIS. THIS WAS STARTING TO WEAKEN SOME AS ANOTHER ONE WAS STRENGTHENING ACROSS EASTERN NEBRASKA. ALL MODELS MOVE A FRONTAL SYSTEM CURRENTLY STATIONARY FROM THE SOUTHERN GREAT LAKES TO NEBRASKA SOUTH ACROSS OUR REGION THIS AFTERNOON. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY OCCURRING NEAR FRONT AND WITH GOOD LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE AND DEWPOINTS IN THE 70S SEE NO REASON WHY THEY WONT CONTINUE TODAY AS FRONT MOVES SOUTH ACROSS OUR REGION. WRF BRINGS HIGHEST QPF INTO OUR NORTH THIS MORNING AND THIS MAY LIMIT THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER THERE LATER TODAY AS THIS AREA SHOULD ONLY WARM NO HIGHER THAN LOWER 80S. PRECIPITABLE WATER RUNNING OVER 2 INCHES SO WILL CONTINUE MENTION OF HEAVY RAIN AT LEAST IN OUR NORTH TODAY. BOTH GFS AND WRF END PRECIP RATHER QUICKLY THIS EVENING AND WILL LOWER POPS A LITTLE TONIGHT WITH MODEL TRENDS. NOT MUCH CHANGE TO REST OF FORECAST AS PREVIOUS FORECAST SEEMS TO HAVE DECENT HANDLE. TEMPS A BIT BLO CLIMO WL BE VERY PLEASANT FOR THE WEEKEND...UNDER INFLUENCE OF NW/N FLOW BEHIND COLD FRONT. WARMUP WL BEGIN IN EARNEST SUNDAY AS UPR RDG CONTINUES BUILDING OVERHEAD AND JUST TO OUR WEST...BEFORE STARTING TO WEAKEN SLIGHTLY MIDWEEK. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. PUBLIC...JH AVIATION...CS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 512 AM EDT THU JUL 19 2007 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-201000- 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- 512 AM EDT THU JUL 19 2007 /412 AM CDT THU JUL 19 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR TODAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTH ACROSS OUR AREA. A FEW OF THESE MAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREAT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND MINOR FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS IS ALSO A THREAT TODAY. LOOK FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO END ALL AREAS...EXCEPT FAR SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL INDIANA BY LATE EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE TODAY. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) JH
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 32 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:06 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A trained spotter reported a small tree down near State Road 44 and Main Street near the Courthouse. Power was out at US 31 and North Main Street.
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, July 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: 43649.