Widespread showers and thunderstorms moved from west to east across the region, producing moderate to heavy rainfall during the early morning hours. Areal Flood Warnings were issued for a number of counties in Central Indiana.
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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 IND wrote it up.
Widespread showers and thunderstorms moved from west to east across the region, producing moderate to heavy rainfall during the early morning hours. Areal Flood Warnings were issued for a number of counties in Central Indiana. Also, a child was fatally struck by lightning at a Perry Township campground, just south of Indianapolis.
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 11, 12:12 AM EST, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 112 AM EDT THU JUN 11 2009 .AVIATION...DISCUSSION FOR 06Z TAFS ISOLD TRWS FORMED ACRS AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY ACRS SWRN PARTS OF CNTRL INDIANA LATE LAST EVE. SO...WL START THE TAFS OFF WITH VCTS AND CBS. THEN...MCS ACRS SCNTRL IL IS EXPECTED TO MAKE IT TO HUF BY 0730Z AND LAF AND BMG AROUND 08Z AND IND AROUND 09Z. SHOULD BE SEVERAL HOURS OF CONSTANT HEAVY TRWS WITH UPSTREAM OBS SHOWING MAINLY MVFR CIGS. WL KEEP THUNDER AND CBS IN DURING THE MRNG AND AFTERNOON DUE TO WAVE MOVING ALONG THE FNT...DEEP MOISTURE...INSTABILITY AND ADDITIONAL IMPULSES. FINALLY...LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVE...THE FNT WL DIVE SE AND PUT AN END TO THE RAIN BY 22Z AT LAF AND AROUND 02Z AT BMG. LGT S WINDS TNGT WL BECOME NE LESS THAN 10 KTS AT FROPA. BASED ON MODEL TIME SECS...MVFR CIGS SHOULD PREVAIL EVEN OUTSIDE TRWS. && .PREV DISCUSSION...SHOWERS EXITING EASTERN INDIANA WHILE BROKEN SKIES ALLOWING FOR SOME SUNSHINE IN WAKE OF PCPN. FNTL BDNRY REMAINS ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA. FOCUS WILL BE ON TIMING OF NEXT PCPN START AND END. MODELS DIFFER TO SOME DEGREE IN SPEED OF SHORT WAVES PROGRESSING ACROSS COUNTRY AND RESULTANT CHC FOR ASSOCIATED PCPN. HAVE GONE WITH A BLEND OF MODELS WHICH EARLY ON FAVORS A FNTL POSITION NEAR CURRENT LOCATION NEAR AND ALONG INTERSTATE 70. MODELS IN A BROAD AGREEMENT ON LIFTING AZ/NM SHORTWAVE CURRENTLY FIRING TX/OK STORMS NORTHEAST INTO ILLINOIS TONIGHT AND TO PARTS OF WRN INDIANA BEFORE DAYBREAK THUR...NOT UNLIKE TODAY. MODELS ALSO SIMILAR IN THAT THIS WAVE WILL BE SLIGHTLY STRONGER THAN TODAY AND THUS WITH MOIST SURFACE BOUNDARY IN PLACE AND JET ENTRANCE REGION PASSING OVERHEAD...LIKELY TO GENERATE A BROADER SWATH OF PCPN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS THUR. GIVEN DEEP LAYERED CLOUD AND RAINY DAY...HAVE RAISED THU POPS IN LINE WITH MOS AND HAVE LOWERED MAXS FOR THUR TO MAINLY LOWER AND MIDDLE 70S. SURFACE LOW AND ASSOCIATED WAVE EXIT INDIANA BY 00Z/FRI WITH DRYING WORKING SE ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA THURSDAY NIGHT. DRY AND SEASONAL WEATHER AGREED ON BY MODELS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA AT LEAST FOR FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY. WAVE ALONG CALIFORNIA COAST THIS MORNING FCST TO WEAKEN IN GRTLKS BY FRI EVE. MODELS PICK UP ON AMPLIFYING LATER WAVES IN FLOW TO DIFFERENT DEGREES AND WITH DIFFERENT TIMING. HAVE LEANED TOWARD PERSISTENCE IN PCPN FCST WITH SOME BLEND OF HPC FOR THESE LATER PERIODS AS CONFIDENCE SOMEWHAT LOW FOR PCPN. MODELS DO GENERALLY AGREE ON SFC BNDRY PUSHING SOUTH OF OH VLY FRIDAY WITH SFC HIGH OVER GRTLKS PRODUCING NE OR ERLY FLOW INTO NEXT WEEK. AGAIN TIMING OF ANY SHORT WAVES AND ASSOCIATED PCPN BEYOND THUR IS SUSPECT. GIVEN PATTERN OF GRTLKS HI AND NE SFC FLOW FOR MUCH OF PERIOD LEANS US TOWARDS TEMPS NEAR OR SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL...AND HAVE ONLY MADE SLIGHT ADJUSTMENTS TO CURRENT FCST. NO SUBSTANTIAL OR WIDESPREAD PCPN EXPECTED TO BRING RAISED FLOOD THREAT THOUGH LOCAL HEAVY RAINS THURSDAY COULD PROMPT LOCAL FLOOD ADVISORIES. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && AVIATION...MK/JH PUBLIC...DT
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 940 PM EDT WED JUN 10 2009 INZ042-045>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-120145- 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- 940 PM EDT WED JUN 10 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL AS THE PRIMARY THREATS. ALL STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS OR LARGE HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY BUT IT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE IF THESE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE. REMEMBER THAT DEADLY LIGHTNING IS A THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORM THAT FORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) INZ021-028>031-035>041-043-044-120145- CARROLL-WARREN-TIPPECANOE-CLINTON-HOWARD-FOUNTAIN-MONTGOMERY- BOONE-TIPTON-HAMILTON-MADISON-DELAWARE-VERMILLION-PARKE- 940 PM EDT WED JUN 10 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT...MAINLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. A FEW SEVERE STORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. ALL STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THURSDAY. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY BUT IT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE IF THESE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE. REMEMBER THAT DEADLY LIGHTNING IS A THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORM THAT FORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED LATER TONIGHT. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE)
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 903 PM EDT WED JUN 10 2009 INZ060-061-110130- GREENE-SULLIVAN- 903 PM EDT WED JUN 10 2009 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ADVISORY FOR EASTERN SULLIVAN AND WESTERN GREENE COUNTIES UNTIL 930 PM EDT... AT 902 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR VICKSBURG...OR 28 MILES EAST OF ROBINSON...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... VICKSBURG AROUND 910 PM EDT... LINTON AROUND 930 PM EDT... THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE FLOODING WARNINGS...SHOULD THE RISK FOR MINOR LOW LAND FLOODING BECOME MORE IMMINENT. 50
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
957 PM EDT WED JUN 10 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0953 PM TSTM WND DMG LINTON 39.04N 87.16W
06/10/2009 GREENE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.
0953 PM HAIL SWITZ CITY 39.03N 87.05W
06/10/2009 U0.75 INCH GREENE IN FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
WATER PONDING ON ROAD.
0956 PM HAIL LYONS 38.99N 87.08W
06/10/2009 U1.75 INCH GREENE IN AMATEUR RADIO
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NIELDThe Indianapolis radar (KIND), 3 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:59 UTC.
1 heavy rain, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Between 300 AM and 416 AM, one and a half inches of rain fell at the Indianapolis International Airport.
A ten year old boy was killed and two others were injured while fishing at a campground at 4141 West Southport Road, Indianapolis, Indiana. This was the first death due to lightning in the state for 2009.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning, Marion | 2009-06-11 | 10 | Male | Camping | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, June 2009
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: 186286, 186284.