Storms, producing heavy rainfall and dangerous lightning, moved across portions of central Indiana during the afternoon and early evening of June 26, 2007. The main threat and damage from these storms was caused by flooding and lightning.
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The episode as NWS IND wrote it up.
Storms, producing heavy rainfall and dangerous lightning, moved across portions of central Indiana during the afternoon and early evening of June 26, 2007. The main threat and damage from these storms was caused by flooding and lightning.
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 Jun 26, 12:16 PM EST, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 116 PM EDT TUE JUN 26 2007 .AVIATION... DISCUSSION FOR 18Z TAFS. UPPER LOW CONTINUES TO LIFT NORTHWARD ACROSS EASTERN ILLINOIS. SO FAR ALL CONVECTION HAS REMAINED OVER ILLINOIS AND TAF SITES HAVE NOT BEEN IMPACTED BY TSRA. HOWEVER THE LATEST VISIBLE SATELLITE SHOWS THE CUMULUS FIELD BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD AND THICKER...AND THE LATEST RADAR TRENDS SHOW SCATTERED TSRA BEGINNING TO DEVELOP. SO WILL BRING A CB QUALIFIER INTO ALL SITES AT 20Z. EXCEPT LAF WHICH IS MUCH CLOSER TO A LARGE AND PERSISTENT AREA OF STORMS IN ILLINOIS...SO HAVE BEGUN THE CB AND VCTS THERE BY 19Z. ALSO A VCTS IN KBMG BECAUSE SCATTERED ACTIVITY OVER SOUTHERN INDIANA SHOULD HEAD IN THE DIRECTION. AFTER 03Z THIS EVENING...THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIE OFF. SOME LIGHT MVFR FOG IS EXPECTED AGAIN BUT NOT CLEAR ON IF THE CONDITIONS WILL BE GREAT FOR THE FOG TO FORM TONIGHT. AN UPPER LOW OVERHEAD MAY KEEP THE ATMOSPHERE A BIT TOO WELL MIXED FOR WIDESPREAD FOG. HOWEVER...THE PRESENCE OF SCATTERED STORMS WILL BRING THE POSSIBILITY THAT AN AREA COULD GET HEAVY RAIN AND THEN FOG AT THE SPOT OVERNIGHT. WITH A LOW CONFIDENCE...WILL HANDLE IT FOR NOW WITH JUST LIGHT MVFR FOG AND A TEMPO GROUP FOR BRIEFLY HEAVIER FOG RIGHT AROUND SUNRISE. UPPER LOW WILL CROSS THE AREA FINALLY WEDNESDAY MORNING AND BRING TSRA AGAIN BY LATE MORNING. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1240 PM EDT TUE JUN 26 2007/ DISCUSSION... PROBLEM OF DAY IS WHEN RAIN WILL START. IF YOU BELIEVE NAM LIFTED INDICES...WE WILL BE SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...BUT MOSTLY FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY THURSDAY NIGHT. I HAVE NO DOUBT OF THIS CONSIDERING DEWPOINTS OVER AREA RIGHT NOW AND PERSISTENT CONVECTION OVER ILLINOIS...VERY SLOWLY DRIFTING IN THIS DIRECTION. SLIGHTLY LONGER TERM...MODELS ESSENTIALLY AGREE MOIST UNSTABLE AIR STREAMING NORTH FROM GULF AREA STARTING TOMORROW AND HAVING ITS INSTABILITY RELEASED BY INTERACTION WITH MODERATE FRONTOGENESIS AND Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE. WHAT THIS MEANS TO FOREECAST IS MOST OF AREA LOW CHANCE TONIGHT TO COVER ANYTHING THAT MAY APPEAR AHEAD OF MAIN SYSTEM. BETTER CHANCE WEST THAN ELSEWHERE TO ACCOUNT FOR ILLINOIS CONVECTION. THEN INCREASING HIGH CHANCES INTO THURSDAY...WITH A DECREASE THURSDAY NIGHT. MAV POPS CAPTURE MY FEELING PRETTY WELL. FOR TEMPS...WILL BE NEAR FWC THROUGH TOMORROW NIGHT. ACTUALLY IT IS CLOSE TO OTHER GUIDANCE EXECPT TOMOROROW WHEN IT IS MIDDLE OF ROAD...WHICH I LIKE BECAUSE WEDNESDAY SHOULD HAVE SAME BASIC AIR MASS BUT MORE CLOUDS. MAV LOOKS OK THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRI. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && AVIATION...JOHNSON/CO
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 513 AM EDT TUE JUN 26 2007 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-270915- 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- 513 AM EDT TUE JUN 26 2007 /413 AM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE...HOWEVER...LIGHTNING IS A THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .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) CP
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 336 PM EDT TUE JUN 26 2007 INZ045-053-054-061-062-262015- GREENE-MONROE-MORGAN-OWEN-PUTNAM- 336 PM EDT TUE JUN 26 2007 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH... AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR GREENCASTLE TO NEAR SPENCER TO ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF BLOOMINGTON WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY NORTHEAST THROUGH 430 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MPH...SMALL HAIL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. BE ALERT FOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS.
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 66 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:01 UTC.
2 lightning, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement reported water across county road 100 W just west of Washington.
Lightning hit a hotel and three homes in the Fishers area. At the hotel the lightning hit the telephone and fire alarm system. A hotel occupant at the time received an electrical shock when he was on the phone during the storm. Some of the houses reported having holes in the roof of their homes due to the lightning strikes.
There was confirmation of two houses being struck by lightning in the Westfield area. A firefighter was hurt when the ceiling of a house collapsed on him when he was inside the house. One house sustained substantial damage of $150,000 to $175,000. The other house had minor damage to the attic.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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