Lightning struck equipment or trees that damaged power lines when they fell.
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The episode as NWS IND wrote it up.
Lightning struck equipment or trees that damaged power lines when they fell.
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 25, 6:10 AM EST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 710 AM EDT WED JUN 25 2008 .AVIATION...DISCUSSION FOR 12Z TAFS. WEAKENING THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX OVER NORTHERN ILLINOIS WILL TRACK INTO NORTHERN INDIANA. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN THE KLAF AREA THROUGH NOON. THIS MAY HAVE TO BE CONTINUED INTO THE AFTERNOON DEPENDING ON HOW QUICKLY THIS COMPLEX WEAKENS. WILL MENTION VCTS KIND BY LATE MORNING AS THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP NEAR OR A LITTLE NORTH OF KIND ALONG OLD OUTFLOW BOUNDARY. OTHERWISE WILL ONLY MENTION CB IN TAFS ELSEWHERE WITH NO WEATHER ELSEWHERE. MODELS INDICATE ATMOSPHERE IS PARTIALLY CAPPED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF CENTRAL INDIANA WHICH WILL LIMIT THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPMENT THERE. GENERALLY VFR TONIGHT ALTHOUGH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS STILL POSSIBLE KIND NORTHWARD. SINCE KLAF WILL LIKELY SEE SOME PRECIPITATION TODAY THEY MAY HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF SEEING MVFR OR POSSIBLY IFR FOG LATE TONIGHT. FOR NOW WILL KEEP VSBYS UNRESTRICTED AT OTHER TAF SITES. && .DISCUSSION... FORECAST FOCUS CONTINUES TO BE ON CHANCES FOR RAIN INTO THE WEEKEND. AT 07Z TSRA COMPLEX WAS ACROSS NRN MO AND WRN IL WITH A SMALLER AREA OF TSRA MOVING INTO FAR NWRN FORECAST AREA /FA/. UPPER TROF WAS TO THE W OF THE FA. AT THE SFC A WARM FRONT WAS ACROSS MO AND WRN IL. MODELS WERE IN DECENT AGREEMENT WITH THE BIG PICTURE...THOUGH CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK ISSUES WERE APPARENT IN GFS AND NAM. GENERALLY USED A BLEND...TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE FEEDBACK ISSUES. TSRA ACROSS MO/WRN IL WERE FIRING ALONG 850 WIND MAX AND THETA-E RIDGE. THIS AREA WILL SHIFT NE ACROSS NRN AREAS OF IL AND IN TODAY. THUS FEEL ALTHOUGH CONVECTION WILL GO THROUGH ITS DIURNAL WEAKENING...STILL A DECENT CHANCE FOR TSRA ACROSS NWRN FA DURING THE MORNING. WILL GO LIKELY POPS XTRM NW AND HIGH CHANCE POPS ELSEWHERE ACROSS NW. THIS AFTN UPPER TROF WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA AND PROVIDE SOME FORCING. ATMS WILL BECOME UNSTABLE WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S. SOME CONCERN ABOUT CLOUD COVER FROM MORNING CONVECTION...BUT BELIEVE ENOUGH SUN WILL BREAK THROUGH TO ALLOW MORE STORMS TO FIRE. WILL CONTINUE CHANCE POPS DURING THE AFTN. MAV HAS BEEN RUNNING TOO WARM WITH TEMPS...AND GIVEN EXPECTED CLOUD COVER...WILL GO COOLER AND CLOSER TO MET MOST AREAS. UPPER TROF WILL BE SLOWLY EXITING TONIGHT SO CHANCE POPS STILL LOOK GOOD MOST AREAS. WITH HIGHER DEWPOINTS AND SOME CLOUD COVER MAV/MET TEMPS IN THE UPPER 60S LOOK GOOD FOR LOWS. FOR THU AND FRI ATMS WILL REMAIN UNSTABLE. UPPER PATTERN WILL REMAIN NEARLY ZONAL WITH IMPULSES MOVING ALONG IN THE FLOW. THESE COULD TRIGGER SOME TSRA. A FRONT WILL STALL OUT ACROSS LWR MI/NRN IN. GIVEN ALL OF THIS HAVE KEPT CHANCE OR SLIGHT CHANCE POPS THU INTO FRI...WITH HIGHER POPS ACROSS NRN FA CLOSER TO FRONT. COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THRU FRI NIGHT INTO SATURDAY AND CONTINUE THREAT FOR TSRA. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && PUBLIC...CS AVIATION...JH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 452 AM EDT WED JUN 25 2008 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-261000- 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- 452 AM EDT WED JUN 25 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FEW SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. THE PRIMARY THREATS WOULD BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AT TIMES FROM THURSDAY INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. PRESENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT SOME STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE DURING THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) INZ060>065-067>072-261000- SULLIVAN-GREENE-MONROE-BROWN-BARTHOLOMEW-DECATUR-KNOX-DAVIESS- MARTIN-LAWRENCE-JACKSON-JENNINGS- 452 AM EDT WED JUN 25 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FEW STRONG STORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AT TIMES FROM THURSDAY INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. PRESENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT SOME STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE DURING THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY...BUT SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS WEEK. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE)
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
912 AM EDT WED JUN 25 2008
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0911 AM HAIL 2 ENE WEST LAFAYETTE 40.46N 86.88W
06/25/2008 U0.25 INCH TIPPECANOE IN TRAINED SPOTTER
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NIELDThe Indianapolis radar (KIND), 94 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:28 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A lightning strike ignited a fire on South Third Street in Lafayette and reports of other possible strikes were received by fire department dispatch personnel. Power outages occurred around the city with a peak of about 1,500 powerless customers county-wide.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, June 2008
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: 118566.