Mainly isolated thunderstorms developed during the early evening in concert with a slow northward movement of a differential heating enhanced boundary that roughly paralleled the Interstate-70 corridor from Missouri into the southern portions of Illinois and Indiana. though mainly across Missouri and southern Illinois.
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The episode as NWS IND wrote it up.
Mainly isolated thunderstorms developed during the early evening in concert with a slow northward movement of a differential heating enhanced boundary that roughly paralleled the Interstate-70 corridor from Missouri into the southern portions of Illinois and Indiana. Within this corridor...both deep layer/low level wind profiles were conducive for small supercells/low level rotation...though mainly across Missouri and southern Illinois. The severe threat diminished shortly after sunset as the boundary layer decoupled sufficiently to temper updraft vigor. Due to the anticipated marginal/isolated nature of the severe risk a watch was not issued for 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 Sep 12, 1:41 PM EST, 4 hours 44 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 241 PM EDT FRI SEP 12 2008 .DISCUSSION... VERY CHALLENGING FCST REGARDING PLACEMENT AND AMOUNT OF RAIN AHEAD OF THE CD FNT AND VARIOUS DISTURBANCES FM WRN TROF AND EVEN MORE SO WITH THE REMNANTS OF IKE LATE IN THE WEEKEND. CURRENTLY...NRN AND ERN FA WERE COVERED WITH RN...WHILE THE S AND W SAW SCT ACTIVITY. LAST NGT...A COUPLE OF OUR SW COUNTIES RECEIVED OVER 4 INCHES OF RN WITH LOW LVL JET CLOSE BY. MEANWHILE...QUASI-STNRY FNT EXTENED FM SRN IL INTO CNTRL KS AND IKE WAS GETTING EVER CLOSE TO THE SERN TX COAST. MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT ON HAVING IKE BECOME ABSORBED IN THE FAST SW UPR FLOW AHEAD OF THE WRN TROF SATURDAY NGT. IN THE MEANTIME...THE FNT CURRENTLY ACRS SRN MI AND CNTRL KS WL TAKE A DIVE SE ACRS INDIANA SAT NGT DRIVEN BY NRN STREAM TROF. FINALLY...IKE TO RIDE ALONG THE FNT ACRS SRN OR CNTRL PARTS OF INDIANA SUNDAY WHICH SHOULD GIVE US THE HIGHEST PD OF QPF. THE CHALLENGE WL BE FINDING THE HEAVIEST PRECIP AXIS THEN. THE GFS WAS THE FURTHEST N TAKING IKE TO NEAR KOKOMO AT 00Z MON...WHILE THE EURO HAD IT ACRS SERN INDIANA. THE NAM WAS MUCH FURTHER S ALONG THE OH RVR. PREFER THE EURO AND GFS WHICH HAVE BEEN MORE CONSISTANT WITH THR REMNANTS OF IKE. THIS WOULD BRING THE HEAVIEST PRCEIP AXIS OF OVER 3 INCHES ACRS NWRN PARTS OF INDIANA LATE SUNDAY/SUNDAY NGT. MEANWHILE...IN THE SHORT-TERM...THE LOW LVL JET AND BEST LOW LVL CNVRG AND UPR DVRG WL CONT TO DRIFT N TODAY AND TNGT ALONG WITH THE BULK OF THE PRECIP...SO WENT WITH HIGHEST POPS NW WITH OCCASIONAL COMPARED TO GOOD CHC S. LOW LVL JET REMAINS ACRS OUR NWRN COUNTIES TOMORROW AND WITH 30-40 KT LOW LVL SHEAR...AREA IS IN SLGT RISK. POSSIBLY SOME SPINUPS THERE ESP IF THERE ARE ANY BREAKS IN THE SS WHICH COULD HELP REALIZE THE 1000 J/KG MODEL MUCAPE. ADDITONAL TORNADO THREAT SUNDAY WITH THE REMNANTS OF IKE AND 65KT LOW LVL JET. AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPS LOOK WAY TOO HIGH WITH BULK OF THE FA EXPECTED TO SEE LITTLE TO NO SS. HOWEVER...OVERNGT LOWS FROM MOS ARE PRETTY CLOSE AND LOOK GOOD WITH AIRMASS IN PLACE AND EXPECTING SATURATION. && .AVIATION...DISCUSSION FOR 121800Z TAF ISSUANCE. CONDS WL BEGIN TO IMPROVE AT THE SITES WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS AS THE WAVE OF PRECIP SLOWLY DRIFTS TO THE N. AFTER PRECIP MVS OUT CIGS WL RISE TO MVFR AND THEN VFR BY AROUND 20-22Z. OVRNIGHT EXPECT ANOTHER PD OF RAIN BASED ON FCST SNDINGS AND THEN VSBYS WL DROP TO IFR WITH LOTS OF MOISTURE AVAILABLE. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && AVIATION...CP PUBLIC...MK
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 256 PM EDT FRI SEP 12 2008 INZ031-038>042-045>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-131000- HOWARD-TIPTON-HAMILTON-MADISON-DELAWARE-RANDOLPH-PUTNAM-HENDRICKS- MARION-HANCOCK-HENRY-VIGO-CLAY-OWEN-MORGAN-JOHNSON-SHELBY-RUSH- SULLIVAN-GREENE-MONROE-BROWN-BARTHOLOMEW-DECATUR-KNOX-DAVIESS- MARTIN-LAWRENCE-JACKSON-JENNINGS- 256 PM EDT FRI SEP 12 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SHOWERS WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME BUT LIGHTNING IS A HAZARD WITH ANY STORM THAT FORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT ASSOCIATED WITH THE REMNANTS OF IKE. SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH MONDAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...BUT FLOODING COULD BECOME A THREAT BY EARLY NEXT WEEK. .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>030-035>037-043-044-131000- CARROLL-WARREN-TIPPECANOE-CLINTON-FOUNTAIN-MONTGOMERY-BOONE- VERMILLION-PARKE- 256 PM EDT FRI SEP 12 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME BUT LIGHTNING IS A HAZARD WITH ANY STORM THAT FORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT ASSOCIATED WITH THE REMNANTS OF IVAN. SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH MONDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER TOMORROW AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. ISOLATED TORNADOES AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. FLOODING COULD BECOME A THREAT BY EARLY NEXT WEEK. .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
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 409 PM EDT FRI SEP 12 2008 INZ068-069-122115- MARTIN IN-DAVIESS IN- 409 PM EDT FRI SEP 12 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN DAVIESS AND MARTIN COUNTIES... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF DAVIESS AND MARTIN COUNTIES. AT 412 PM EDT...THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GLENDALE STATE FISH AND WILDLIFE AREA...OR JUST SOUTH OF MONTGOMERY AND CANNELBURG...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE INDOORS UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. BE ALERT FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. AREAS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ALFORDSVILLE...LOOGOOTEE...SOUTH MARTIN...WINDOM...AND OTHER RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN DAVIESS AND MARTIN COUNTIES. NIELD
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 642 PM EDT FRI SEP 12 2008 INZ061-062-070-122345- MONROE IN-GREENE IN-LAWRENCE IN- 642 PM EDT FRI SEP 12 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH GREENE COUNTY... AT 640 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER RURAL SOUTHEAST GREENE COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL CONTINUE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH...AND WILL AFFECT OWENSBURG...AS WELL AS PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST MONROE COUNTY...AND NORTHWEST LAWRENCE COUNTY. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE INDOORS UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. NIELD
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 89 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:26 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds north of Springville.
Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds in a few areas in the northern part of the county.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 133135, 133139.