On the afternoon of May 2, 2007 storms produced hail and heavy rainfall across 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.
On the afternoon of May 2, 2007 storms produced hail and heavy rainfall across 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 May 2, 1:20 PM EST, 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 220 PM EDT WED MAY 2 2007 .DISCUSSION...UPPR LO CURRENTLY OVR THE SRN PLAINS XPCTD TO DRFT SLOWLY TO THE NE TOWARDS THE OH VLY OVR THE NEXT FEW DAYS AS OVERALL PTN BECOMES HIGHLY AMPLIFIED. THIS UPPR LO WL TEND TO KEEP THINGS RATHER UNSETTLED PROB THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. MODELS IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT ON THE MAIN DETAILS. FCST FOCUS CENTERS ON POPS. RADAR INDICATING QUITE A BIT OF RAIN/TSTM ACTVTY HAS BEEN STEADILY DVLPG OVER THE PAST FEW HRS OVR THE SRN PARTS OF THE AREA. WK FNT OVR THE FAR SWRN CWA XPCTD TO GRADU DISSIPATE OVR TIME...HOWEVER MODELS SUGGEST SOME INDICATIONS OF A FNT AT THE 850MB LVL WL REMAIN ACRS THE AREA THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. THE COMBINATIONS OF THE SFC BOUNDARY...850MB FNT...AND APPRAOCHING UPPR LO SUGGEST FARILY HI POPS OVR THE AREA AT LEAST INTO FRI. PCPN THREAT MAY TEND TO DIMINISH BY THE END OF THE WEEK AS UPPR RDGG BEGINS TO BLD. REGIONAL SAT/RADARS INDICATE A PRETTY GOOD PUSH TO THE MOISTURE TO THE SW...SO ALTHOUGH THE FAR N/NE ZONES MAY STAY DRY FOR AWHILE... THINK PCPN THREAT WL EVENTUALLY REACH THESE AREAS AS WELL BY THURS AFT/EVEN. LO LVL THICKNESSES SUGGEST THE NGM MOS GUIDANCE TEMPS MAY BE A LTL ON THE WARM SIDE BY FRI...BUT OVERALL THE GUIDANCE DOESN/T LOOK TOO BAD. && .AVIATION...FOR 18Z TAFS COLD FRONT/WIND SHIFT HAS MOVED TO SOUTH OF A SULLIVAN TO BLOOMINGTON TO COLUMBUS LINE. SFC-850MB FRONTAL ZONE IS NOW BEING INFLUENCED BY THE APPROACHING UPPER SYSTEM AND SCT -SHRA AND -TSRA IS DEVELOPING JUST SOUTH OF HUF AND BMG. MVFR VIS CONDS MAY PERSIST FOR A TIME ESPECIALLY AT HUF NEAR THE PRECIP TODAY. VIS SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS CLEARING AND GREATER INSTABILITY NEAR BMG. I WILL INCLUDE VCTS AT BMG BUT THE NORTHERN EXTENT OF INSTABILITY MAY KEEP THUNDER OUT OF HUF/IND OVER THE NEXT 24 HRS. ALL MOS GUIDANCE SUGGEST THAT CIGS AND VIS WILL GRADUALLY DROP INTO THE MVFR CATEGORY AFTER 09Z TONIGHT AND LAST INTO THU AM. THE ONLY SITE WHERE VFR CONDS MAY PERSIST IS LAF WHERE DRIER AIR MAY HINDER PRECIP AND VIS/CIG RESTRICTIONS. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && PUBLIC...JAS AVIATION...CO
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 516 AM EDT WED MAY 2 2007 INZ028-035-043-044-051-060-067-030930- WARREN-FOUNTAIN-VERMILLION-PARKE-VIGO-SULLIVAN-KNOX- 516 AM EDT WED MAY 2 2007 /416 AM CDT WED MAY 2 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR FAR WESTERN SECTIONS OF CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. LOWLAND FLOODING WILL OCCUR ALONG PORTIONS OF THE WABASH RIVER. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED...BUT LIGHTNING IS A THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS PARTS OF THE AREA INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. LIGHTNING IS A THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORM. LOWLAND FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG PARTS OF THE WABASH RIVER INTO FRIDAY. SEE THE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENT FOR DETAILS. .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) INZ021-029>031-036>042-049-030930- CARROLL-TIPPECANOE-CLINTON-HOWARD-MONTGOMERY-BOONE-TIPTON- HAMILTON-MADISON-DELAWARE-RANDOLPH-HENRY- 516 AM EDT WED MAY 2 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NORTHERN HALF OF CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. LIGHTNING IS A THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. LIGHTNING IS A THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORM. .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) INZ045>048-052>057-061>065-068>072-030930- PUTNAM-HENDRICKS-MARION-HANCOCK-CLAY-OWEN-MORGAN-JOHNSON-SHELBY- RUSH-GREENE-MONROE-BROWN-BARTHOLOMEW-DECATUR-DAVIESS-MARTIN- LAWRENCE-JACKSON-JENNINGS- 516 AM EDT WED MAY 2 2007 /416 AM CDT WED MAY 2 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SOUTHERN HALF OF CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. LIGHTNING IS A THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. LIGHTNING IS A THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORM. .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)
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement reported hail on Highway 50 near the Martin and Lawrence county line.
Law enforcement reported 4 feet of water over Red School Road. The road was also damaged. There was also water over U.S. 50 East and mudslides and rock slides in the Martin County State Forest.
Rainfall up to 4 inches in two hours flooded local roads south of Huron.
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, May 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: 28815, 28812, 28814.