Rainfall was abundant in central Indiana during March. Several areas received over 6 inches of rain.
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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 PAH wrote it up.
Rainfall was abundant in central Indiana during March. Several areas received over 6 inches of rain. As a result, lowland flooding was quite common throughout March. After receding below flood stage around the 26th, the White River flooded for a third time around the 28th.
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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 27, 2:32 PM EST, 11 hours 28 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 232 PM CDT TUE MAR 27 2007 .DISCUSSION... RADAR SHOWS LARGE AREA OF SHRA/TSRA IN WRN AR...POISED TO LIFT NE TONIGHT. BOTH NAM/GFS WORK IT INTO SEMO BEFORE 06Z...AND ACROSS REMAINDER OF FA AFT THAT. MOS SHOWS NO DOUBT CATEGORICAL POPS AND WE RESPOND IN KIND. SYSTEM DEPARTS WED AM...BUT STILL HIGH 1000-500 MB RH IN WARM/UNSTABLE ENVIRO COULD BE TAPPED AS MEAN LONG WAVE TROF LIFTS OUT WED PM/EVENING...AND MODELS ARE IN PRETTY HEARTY AGREEMENT ON LINGERING AT LEAST CHC CAT POPS FOR THAT POSSIBILITY. WED NIGHT-THU UPPER LEVEL RIDGING SHOULD BE TEMPORARILY SHUTTING OFF PCPN CHANCES. MODELS WANT TO PAINT OUT SOME QPF IN CENTER OF RIDGE BUT DO SHOW MAIN CHC PCPN AREAS MIGRATING EAST AND WEST OF OUR AREA...SO WE THINK GOING W/ A DRY FORECAST DIRECTLY UNDERNEATH THIS BUILDING RIDGE IS THE WAY TO GO. THU NIGHT A WARM SECTOR RETURN BOUNDARY RE-INTRODUCES POPS AHEAD OF OUR APPROACHING WEEKEND FRONT. THE FRI-SAT MODEL OUTPUT IS SCHIZOPHRENIC...WITH GFS NOW DRIVING THE FRONT THRU SATURDAY AS THE LOW LIFTS OUT AND UNWINDS. PREVIOUSLY IT WAS WINDING IT TIGHTER AND STALLING THE BOUNDARY...EVEN WEST OF THE FA ON SAT. THE DGEX SHOWS A SIMILAR SOLUTION THE GFS AND JUST MAY BE THE MOST STABLE OUTPUT THROUGH THE LAST 5 DAYS. THE ECMWF CONTIUES THE STALL TREND AND EVEN MORE GROSSLY...MAINTAINING THE PARENT LOW OVER THE DESERT SOUTHWEST UNTIL SAT...THEN SLOWLY LIFTING IT ACROSS THE PLAINS W/POPS FOR US THRU SUN. GIVEN OUR MID GROUND APPROACH THUS FAR...AND ALL THE MODEL VARIANCE...WE WANT TO MAINTAIN THAT PERSISTENCE STRATEGY AND INCREASE POPS TO BEST CHANCE/MOST LIKELY TIME FRAME OF LATE FRI NIGHT-SAT W/FRONT IN PICTURE. THIS MEANS WE GO BACK TO A DRIER/MORE SEASONAL ZONAL FLOW REGIME WORKING IN BEHIND IT BEGINNING SUNDAY AND CONTINUING THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK...MINUS THE LOW CHC EVENT MON. NEAR RECORD WARMTH SHOULD BE MUTED TOMORROW BY THE POPS/CLOUDS...BUT ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS WL CONTINUE TIL WEEKEND FROPA. MAV/MET MOS BOTH PICK UP NICELY ON THESE TRENDS AND WERE GENERALLY FOLLOWED. LONGER TERM...WE SPLIT THE DIFF BETWEEN WARMER HPC AND COOLER MEX MOS...WHICH BLENDED BEST COLLABORATIVELY. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 252 PM CDT TUE MAR 27 2007 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-281000- JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON- WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION IL-JOHNSON-POPE- HARDIN-ALEXANDER-PULASKI-MASSAC-GIBSON-PIKE-POSEY-VANDERBURGH- WARRICK-SPENCER-FULTON-HICKMAN-CARLISLE-BALLARD-MCCRACKEN-GRAVES- LIVINGSTON-MARSHALL-CALLOWAY-CRITTENDEN-LYON-TRIGG-CALDWELL- UNION KY-WEBSTER-HOPKINS-CHRISTIAN-HENDERSON-DAVIESS-MCLEAN- MUHLENBERG-TODD-PERRY MO-BOLLINGER-CAPE GIRARDEAU-WAYNE MO-CARTER- RIPLEY-BUTLER-STODDARD-SCOTT-MISSISSIPPI-NEW MADRID- 252 PM CDT TUE MAR 27 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY...AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH STORMS WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING. MINOR FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ALONG THE LOWER OHIO RIVER AT SHAWNEETOWN. REFER TO THE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENTS FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ALMOST DAILY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE BEST CHANCE OF STRONG STORMS WILL BE WHEN A COLD FRONT ENTERS THE FORECAST PICTURE...FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... A REQUEST FOR SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE FRIDAY OR SATURDAY.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Minor flooding of the White River occurred. The river was still rising at the end of the month. Through March 31, the flooding mostly affected low oil fields and a few county roads. State Road 257 began to flood.
Minor flooding occurred along the White River. The river was still rising at the end of the month. Through the end of the month, the river primarily affected low oil fields, local roads, and residents of river cabins.
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: 18536, 18537.