Portions of the lower White River flooded in mid-March.
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.
Portions of the lower White River flooded in mid-March.
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 Mar 15, 2:15 PM EST, 6 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 315 PM EDT THU MAR 15 2007 .DISCUSSION... MAIN WEATHER CONCERNS ARE PRECIPITATION CHANCES EARLY NEXT WEEK AND ALSO TEMPERATURES TONIGHT AND TOMORROW. MODELS INTENSIFY AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND MOVE IT TOWWARDS THE MID ATLANTIC COAST BY 00Z SATURDAY AND TO NEW ENGLAND ON SATURDAY. A THIS HAPPENS THE UPPER TROUGH WILL DIG SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES TO OHIO BY SATUFDAY. MODEL SOUNDINGS QUITE A BIT OF LOW AND MID LEVEL MOISTURE ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN FORECAST AREA INTO SATURDAY. THERE HAS BEEN PARTIAL CLEARING ACROSS NORTHERN INDIANA AND IT MAY PUSH AS FAR SOUTH AS INDIANAPOLIS LATE TONIGHT BEFORE TEMPORARY STOPPPING. THE CLOUDS SHOULD KEEP TEMPERATUERS IN OUR SOUTH FROM FALLING BELOW FREEZING TONIGHT. FARTHER NORTH WE WILL PROBABLY SEE MINS IN THE MID 20S TONIGHT. BOTH GFS AND NAM ARE SIMILAR EXCEPT THE NAM IS A LITTLE DEEPER AND SLOWER WITH THE UPPER TROUGH. IT DEVELOPS A STRONG UPPER LOW OVER NEW ENGLAND WHILE THE GFS IS QUICKER IN MOVING IT EASTWARD. FOR NOW WILL USE A BLEND. A WEAK S/W WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS INDIANA BY LATE SUNDAY. NAM AND DRIER AND A TAD SLOWER WITH THIS S/W. WITH LITTLE MOISTURE TO WORK WITH WILL GO MORE IN LINE WITH THE NAM AND ONLY MENTION SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS IN OUR WEST BY LATE SUNDAY. IN THE EXTENDED PERIOD WILL GO WITH NCEP. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE TO THE OHIO VALLEY BY EARLY TUESDAY AND THEN MOVE BACK NORTH ACROSS OUR REGION ON WEDNESDAY. && .AVIATION...DISCUSSION FOR 18Z TAFS MVFR CIGS ARE JUST S OF THE SOUTHERN TAF SITES EARLY THIS AFTN. SFC TROF MOVING THRU KY WILL TRY TO KEEP LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AROUND...AT THE SAME TIME A NE WIND WILL BE TRYING TO DRY THINGS OUT. ALTHOUGH A TEMPORARY PERIOD OF BKN020 CANNOT BE RULED OUT AT ALL SITES BUT LAF THIS AFTN...ATTM FEEL THAT ODDS ARE NOT HIGH ENOUGH TO PUT INTO THE TAFS AS DRIER AIR HAS BEEN WINNING SO FAR. WILL KEEP SCT LOWER LAYER. LAF SHOULD STAY FREE OF LOW CLOUDS AND MAINLY STICK WITH MID AND HIGH CLOUDS. AS TROF DEVELOPS AND MOVES INTO OH ON FRI MORNING...SOME LOW LEVEL MOISTURE TRIES TO WORK BACK IN FM THE E. FOR NOW BELIEVE MOST OF THIS MOISTURE WILL REMAIN E OF THE TAF SITES...BUT HAVE INCLUDED A SCT015 LAYER AT IND TO HINT AT THE ARRIVAL OF THIS MOISTURE. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && PUBLIC...JH AVIATION...CS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 512 AM EDT THU MAR 15 2007 INZ043-044-051-060-067-068-161000- VERMILLION-PARKE-VIGO-SULLIVAN-KNOX-DAVIESS- 512 AM EDT THU MAR 15 2007 /412 AM CDT THU MAR 15 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. RIVER FLOODING CONTINUES ON THE WABASH RIVER IN WESTERN INDIANA. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENT FOR MORE INFORMATION. MEANWHILE...AN ADDITIONAL TWO INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE THROUGH MID MORNING FROM TERRE HAUTE SOUTH. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO WATER OVER ROADWAYS...FLOODED CREEKS AND THE POTENTIAL OF HYDROPLANING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. RIVER FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH MID WEEK. RAINFALL OVERNIGHT AND THURSDAY MAY SLOW THE FALL OF AREA RIVERS. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENT FOR MORE INFORMATION. .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) INZ021-028>031-035>042-045>049-052>057-061>065-069>072-161000- CARROLL-WARREN-TIPPECANOE-CLINTON-HOWARD-FOUNTAIN-MONTGOMERY- BOONE-TIPTON-HAMILTON-MADISON-DELAWARE-RANDOLPH-PUTNAM-HENDRICKS- MARION-HANCOCK-HENRY-CLAY-OWEN-MORGAN-JOHNSON-SHELBY-RUSH-GREENE- MONROE-BROWN-BARTHOLOMEW-DECATUR-MARTIN-LAWRENCE-JACKSON-JENNINGS- 512 AM EDT THU MAR 15 2007 /412 AM CDT THU MAR 15 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE SHOWERS WILL BE ENDING THIS MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST BUT NOT BEFORE MANY AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MUNCIE TO CLINTON SEE OVER TWO INCHES OF TOTAL ACCUMULATION. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO WATER OVER ROADWAYS...FLOODED CREEKS AND THE POTENTIAL OF HYDROPLANING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .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
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1017 AM EDT THU MAR 15 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1011 AM FLOOD 6 SSW GREENCASTLE 39.56N 86.88W
03/15/2007 PUTNAM IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
WATER FLOWING OVER SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS NEAR MANHATTAN.
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ETERRELLPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1019 AM EDT THU MAR 15 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1011 AM FLOOD 8 N GREENCASTLE 39.76N 86.84W
03/15/2007 PUTNAM IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
WATER FLOWING OVER SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS NEAR 1100 N.
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ETERRELLThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The White River flooded in Morgan County. Crests were nearly three feet above flood stage.
The White River flooded in Greene County. Crests were 5.5 feet above flood stage.
The White River flooded in Owen County. Crests were nearly 4.5 feet above flood stage.
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, March 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: 21700, 21702, 21701.