Scattered thunderstorms pushed southeast through Central Indiana on the morning of the 22nd. Numerous observations of flash flooding were reported, as well as a lone thunderstorm wind damage report from Lawrence County.
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The episode as NWS IND wrote it up.
Scattered thunderstorms pushed southeast through Central Indiana on the morning of the 22nd. Numerous observations of flash flooding were reported, as well as a lone thunderstorm wind damage report from Lawrence County.
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 22, 5:35 AM EST, 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 635 AM EDT MON JUN 22 2009 .AVIATION...DISCUSSION FOR 221200Z TAF ISSUANCE. NOCTURNAL CONVECTION HAS BEEN SLOWLY DVLPG OVR THE PAST FEW HRS UNDER UPPR SHEAR AXIS AND MODEST 850MB WNDS FLOWING INTO THE AREA. THIS CONVECTION XPCTD TO BEGIN DIMINISHING LTR THIS MORN AND SHOULD DISSPATE OR MOVE SE OF THE TERMINALS BY 221700Z. XTRAP OF CONVECTION SUGGESTS KLAF/KIND/KBMG MOST LIKELY WL BE IMPACTED...WITH THE HIGHEST THREAT PASSING E OF KHUF BY ISSUANCE TIME. BRIEF IFR VSBY RESTRICTIONS IN HEAVIER TSTMS. ADDITIONAL SCT/WDLY SCT CONVECTION WL PROBABLY DVLP LTR TDY AFT ABOUT 221900Z AS THE UPPR SHEAR AXIS LINGERS OVR THE AREA COMBINED WITH AN UNSTABLE AMS. DUE TO THE ELEVATED NATURE OF THE CONVECTION THIS MORN...CIGS FOR THE MOST PART SHOULD BE NR OR ABV 050. AFT 221700Z...SOME DIURNAL CLD DVLPMT XPCTD BASED ARND 035. && .DISCUSSION...WEAK SFC HIGH PRES STRETCHED FROM THE GRT LKS TO THE DEEP SOUTH EARLY THIS MORNING. H2O VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWED AN UPPER DISTURBANCE OVER EASTERN IA...GENERATING TSRA OVR EASTERN IA AND NW IL. SFC FLOW WAS LIGHT AND VARIABLE AS DEW POINT TEMPS WERE IN THE VERY MOIST UPPER 60S AND LOWER 70S. MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE TDY WL BE POPS. NAM IS BETTER THAN THE GFS WITH INITIALING THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED S/W. NAM IS A BIT TOO FAR NORTH BUT GFS REALLY DOESN'T HAVE THE FEATURE AT ALL. H8-H3 STEERING LAYER SUGGESTS THAT PROPAGATION OF THE TSRA SHUD PUSH TOWARD CENTRAL INDIANA THIS MORNING. NEXT UP TO SUPPORT PCPN TDY ARE THE FORECAST SOUNDINGS ACRS THE AREA. GOOD INSTABILITY IN PLACE ACRS THE FA TDY WITH CONVECTIVE TEMPS IN THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 80S...LI/S NEAR -6 AND CAPES OF 2000-3000 J/KG. ONLY PROBLEM WITH CONVECTION TODAY IS THAT THE FORECAST SOUNDINGS SUGGEST A WEAK MID LVL CAP IN PLACE AROUND H8-H7 THROUGH THE COURSE OF THE DAY...HOWEVER WITH H7 TEMPS BELOW 10C AND RELATIVELY LOW CONVECTIVE TEMPS...FEEL RAISING POPS WILL BE THE WAY TO GO. ALL OF THIS ADDS UP TO TWO POSSIBLE ROUNDS OF TSRA TDY...ONE IN THE MORNING WITH THE ONGOING TSRA...AND THE POTENTIAL FOR DAYTIME HEATING DRIVEN STORMS LATE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. SINCE THE GFS IS NOT HANDLING THE S/W VERY WELL WITH TROW OUT THE MAVMOS POPS. FEEL THAT THE ONGOING 30-40 PERCENT POPS IS MUCH MORE REPRESENTATIVE. WL WATCH THE TSRA EVOLUTION CLOSELY...AND IF TSRA/S ARE IMMINENT WL BUMP UP POPS EVEN MORE. GIVEN OUR H8 TEMPS AND EXPECT CLOUD DEVELOPMENT WL LEAN COOLER THAN THE MAVMOS HIGHS. TSRA DEVELOPMENT WL DIMINISH QUICKLY THIS EVENING WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING AS STRONGER MID LEVEL SUBSIDENCE BEGINS TO SETTLE IN. BY LATE MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...MODELS AGREE THAT A LARGE UPPER RIDGE WILL BUILD ACRS THE GRT LKS AND NW INDIANA. THIS WL PLACE CENTRAL INDIANA IN THE FAVORABLE SUBSIDENCE AREA ON THE LEE SIDE OF THE RIDGE. ISENTROPIC SFCS ALSO SHOWING SUBSIDENCE. THUS MOSUNNY DAYS AND MOCLEAR NIGHTS ARE IN STORE FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. NAM SUGGESTS A WARMING TREND IN H8 TEMPS AND WITH FULL SUN EXPECTED WL GO AOA MOS IN MOST LOCATIONS...WITH HIGHS MAINLY AROUND 90. LOWS IN THE UPPER 60S AND LOWER 70S APPEAR VERY REASONABLE GIVEN THE MOIST DEW POINTS AND THE LACK OF ANY CHANGE IN THE AIR MASS. NEXT BEST CHC FOR PCPN AFTER TDY WL BE THURSDAY AS MODELS SUGGEST A WEAK S/W PUSHING OVER THE RIDGE IN SPILLING TOWARD INDIANA. ATTM CONFIDENCE IS LOW WITH THIS AS THE MODELS HAVE NOT BEEN HANDLING THESE SMALLER CONVECTIVE AREAS VERY WELL IN THE SHORT TERM...LET ALONE 72 HOURS FROM NOW. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && AVIATION...JAS PUBLIC...PUMA
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 355 AM EDT MON JUN 22 2009 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-062>065-069>072-230800- 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-MONROE-BROWN-BARTHOLOMEW-DECATUR-MARTIN- LAWRENCE-JACKSON-JENNINGS- 355 AM EDT MON JUN 22 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND THIS EVENING. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED...HOWEVER LIGHTNING IS A THREAT WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY INTO EARLY FRIDAY. THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE BUT LIGHTNING IS A THREAT WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. HEAT INDICES WILL BE APPROACHING DANGEROUS LEVELS BEGINNING TUESDAY. .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) INZ060-061-067-068-230800- SULLIVAN-GREENE-KNOX-DAVIESS- 355 AM EDT MON JUN 22 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND THIS EVENING. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED...HOWEVER LIGHTNING IS A THREAT WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. MINOR FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ON THE WABASH...WHITE AND THE EAST FORK OF THE WHITE RIVERS. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST HYDROLOGICAL STATEMENT FOR MORE DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY INTO EARLY FRIDAY. THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE BUT LIGHTNING IS A THREAT WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. MINOR FLOODING ON THE WABASH...WHITE...AND EAST FORK OF THE WHITE RIVERS IS EXPECTED TO SUBSIDE BY TUESDAY. HEAT INDICES WILL BE APPROACHING DANGEROUS LEVELS BEGINNING TUESDAY. .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) PUMA
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 63 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:01 UTC.
6 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Between the hours of 7 and 8 AM EDT, 1.3 inches of rain fell due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall. Some local flooding was also observed.
A foot or more of water was reported across many Putnam County roads due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall. The location of this event is estimated.
Water of unknown depth was observed over some of the streets in Brazil due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall. The location of this event is estimated.
Many county roads in Owen County were reported under water due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall. The location of this event is estimated.
Streets were reported to be flooded in Bloomington due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall.
Thunderstorm wind gusts blew some shingles off a house and also knocked a television tower down. Trees were also reported down in Bedford.
Flash flooding of some county roads were reported throughout Monroe County due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall. A few intersections in Bloomington were flooded as well. The location of this event is estimated.
Owen County Dispatch reported that flash flooding caused Patricksburg Road to be impassable near Buckview Road.
Flash flooding was observed in portions of Spencer, where water was curb-deep or slightly higher due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall. Water was beginning to recede at the time of the report. Rainfall of 1.7 inches fell in two hours in this location.
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