A strong upper level low pushed a few showers and thunderstorms south-southeast into central Indiana during the early evening of the 29th of July. The brief heavy rainfall did cause some minor flooding in northern portions of the Indianapolis metropolitan area.
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The episode as NWS IND wrote it up.
A strong upper level low pushed a few showers and thunderstorms south-southeast into central Indiana during the early evening of the 29th of July. The brief heavy rainfall did cause some minor flooding in northern portions of the Indianapolis metropolitan area. Damaging winds also downed some trees on the west side of the city.
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 Jul 29, 3:37 PM EST, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 437 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2014 .UPDATE... THE AVIATION SECTION HAS BEEN UPDATED BELOW. && .SYNOPSIS... ISSUED AT 158 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2014 INDIANA WEATHER WILL REMAIN IN ALMOST THE SAME PATTERN THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. LOW PRESSURE IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN TO OUR NORTH AND EAST. HIGH PRESSURE IS FORECAST TO STAY TO THE SOUTH AND WEST. THIS COMBINATION WILL KEEP AIR FROM CANADA FLOWING INTO STATE...WHICH IN TURN WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES BELOW NORMAL. BESIDE KEEPING US COOL...THE WEATHER PATTERNS IN THE FORECAST SHOULD GIVE US A CHANCE OF SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS ALMOST EVERY DAY. && .NEAR TERM /TONIGHT/... ISSUED AT 158 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2014 THE MAJOR QUESTION IS THE CHANCE OF RAIN. THE LATEST SATELLITE WATER VAPOR IMAGES SHOW A SHORT WAVE APPROACHING FROM MICHIGAN. THIS WAVE IS DECEPTIVE IN THE SENSE IT LAGS THE CLOUD BAND OVER INDIANA IN THE VISIBLE PICTURES. WITH THE SHORT WAVE INBOUND AND THE ENTIRE AREA IN A COOL CYCLONIC FLOW...THERE IS A CHANCE OF SHOWERS TONIGHT EXCEPT IN THE SOUTH WHERE THE EFFECTS OF THE WAVE WILL BE WEAKEST. THE QPF FIELDS FROM THE LATEST RUC ALSO SUPPORT THE IDEA OF SOME RAIN IN THE NORTHERN CWA. THE NAM POPS SEEM CORRUPTED UNLESS ONE IS WILLING TO BELIEVE 66 PERCENT AT MUNCIE WITH 30 PERCENT AT FORT WAYNE MAKES SENSE IN THIS PATTERN. THE MAV POPS SEEM TOO LOW BASED ON THE ABOVE REASONING ABOUT THE SHORT WAVE AND RUC QPF. ADDING 10 PERCENT TO THE MAV POPS DOES PRODUCE A SOLUTION THAT FITS WELL WITH HOW THE SITUATION IS EVOLVING. THAT IS...A SLIGHT CHANCE OR A CHANCE IN THE NORTH...WITH THE SOUTH REMAINING DRY. SKIES SHOULD BE PARTLY CLOUDY OVERNIGHT AS CLOUD PATCHES CONTINUE TO MOVE BY IN THE CYCLONIC FLOW. GUIDANCE TEMPERATES ARE CLOSE. THEY LOOK REASONABLE CONSIDERING WHAT HAS OCCURRED RECENTLY AND THAT THE SITUATION IS NOT CHANGING MUCH. WHERE THEY DIFFER A CONSENSUS WILL BE USED. && .SHORT TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... ISSUED AT 158 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2014 THE CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION IS THE MAIN ISSUE. THE DETERMINISTIC FIELDS OF THE MODELS ARE CLOSE THROUGH THE PERIOD. THERE WONT BE MUCH CHANGE IN THE COOL CYCLONIC FLOW OVER THE AREA. THE ISSUE COMES DOWN TO WHICH STATISTICAL GUIDANCE IS HANDLING THE SITUATION BEST...IF ANY IS. THE MET POPS SEEM TOO WET...SOMETIMES MUCH TOO WET...IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY SYSTEM THAT WILL PRODUCE A LOT OF FORCING. MEANWHILE...THE MAV POPS LOOK TOO LOW. THE GFS AND NAM BOTH HAVE MODERATELY UNSTABLE AFTERNOON LIFTED INDICES. GIVEN SMALL TROUGHS ARE GOING TO CONTINUE PASSING IN THE CYCLONIC FLOW...THIS FORECAST PACKAGE WILL HAVE A CHANCE OF DAYTIME CONVECTION IN THE NORTH. THE SOUTH WILL PROBABLY STAY DRY IN A DRIER FLOW NOT AFFECTED BY THE LAKES. IN AND OUT CLOUDS WILL CONTINUE FROM THE EFFECTS OF WEAK TROUGHS PASSING AND DAYTIME HEATING. THE MODEL THERMAL FIELDS ARE VERY CLOSE. ALL SUPPORT SLOW WARMING AS THE CYCLONIC FLOW OVER THE AREA SLOWLY MOVES EAST. THE STATISTICAL GUIDANCE SEEMS TO REFLECT THIS WELL. TO THE EXTENT THERE ARE DIFFERENCES...A CONSENSUS OF THAT WILL BE USED. && .LONG TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/... ISSUED AT 229 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2014 GRADUALLY WARMER AND DRIER CONDITIONS ARE ANTICIPATED THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD AS THE STAGNANT UPPER TROUGH CENTERED OVER THE REGION FINALLY LIFTS OUT LATE IN THE WEEKEND. WITH THE UPPER TROUGH STILL IN THE AREA SATURDAY...WILL CARRY LOW CHANCE POPS FOR SCATTERED AFTERNOON CONVECTION. THE SYSTEM BEGINS TO PULL AWAY TO THE EAST SUNDAY WITH DRIER AIR FILTERING IN AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FROM THE WEST. UPPER PATTERN TRANSITIONS INTO NORTHWEST FLOW BETWEEN A RIDGE OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND THE DEPARTING TROUGH TO THE NORTHEAST EARLY NEXT WEEK. ECMWF HINTING AT POTENTIAL FOR A FRONT TO RIDE INTO THE OHIO VALLEY ON TUESDAY BUT OP GFS KEEPING THE BOUNDARY FURTHER NORTH. WILL KEEP TUESDAY DRY AT THIS POINT BUT WILL NEED TO CONSIDER POPS IF MODELS TREND TOWARDS THE ECMWF SOLUTION IN THE COMING DAYS. HIGHS RETURN INTO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 80S DURING THE EXTENDED. MUCH CLOSER TO AVERAGE HIGHS FOR EARLY AUGUST BUT STILL SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL. UNDERCUT ALLBLEND TEMPS ON OVERNIGHT LOWS BY A COUPLE DEGREES THROUGH THE PERIOD. && .AVIATION /DISCUSSION FOR 291800Z TAF ISSUANCE/... ISSUED AT 434 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2014 2030Z UPDATE...FEW CHANGES TO ACCOUNT FOR WIDELY SCATTERED RADAR TRENDS. ADDED IN VCSH TO KIND AND KBMG FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS AND TIMED IN A THUNDERSTORM FOR KLAF FROM 21-23Z BASED A RADAR. PREVIOUS DISCUSSION FOLLOWS. VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED LARGELY THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD. DESPITE A RELATIVELY SUNNY MORNING...CENTRAL INDIANA REMAINS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF AN UPPER TROUGH. A VFR CU FIELD WILL DEVELOP AS CONVECTIVE TEMPS IN THE 70S ARE REACHED THIS AFTERNOON. WEAK DISTURBANCE ALOFT DRIFTING INTO THE REGION FROM THE NORTH COMBINED WITH WEAK INSTABILITY AND STEEP LOW LEVEL LAPSE RATES WILL CONTRIBUTE TO ISOLATED CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...ESPECIALLY AT KIND AND KLAF. CONFIDENCE IN COVERAGE REMAINS LOW AND WILL KEEP ALL TERMINALS DRY AT THIS TIME. CU SHOULD SCATTER TONIGHT WITH REDEVELOPMENT BY MIDDAY WEDNESDAY AS CONVECTIVE TEMPS ARE AGAIN REACHED. OTHER THAN BRIEF MVFR VISIBILITIES AT OUTLYING TERMINALS TOWARDS DAYBREAK TUESDAY... ESPECIALLY KBMG...VFR CONDITIONS WILL BE THE RULE. W/NW WINDS WILL BE LIGHT TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. && .IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SYNOPSIS...JK NEAR TERM...JK SHORT TERM...JK LONG TERM....RYAN AVIATION...SMF/RYAN VISIT US AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/IND FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK...TWITTER AND YOUTUBE AT: WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/NWSINDIANAPOLIS WWW.TWITTER.COM/NWSINDIANAPOLIS WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/NWSINDIANAPOLIS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 440 AM EDT TUE JUL 29 2014 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-300845- 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-SULLIVAN-GREENE-MONROE-BROWN-BARTHOLOMEW- DECATUR-KNOX-DAVIESS-MARTIN-LAWRENCE-JACKSON-JENNINGS- 440 AM EDT TUE JUL 29 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. OUTLOOK: NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HAZARDS: NONE. TIMING: NONE. DISCUSSION: RAIN SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. OUTLOOK: THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FROM TIME TO TIME THROUGH SUNDAY...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE AT THIS TIME...BUT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORM. DISCUSSION: CYCLONIC UPPER FLOW WILL RESULT IN A DAILY THREAT OF ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MOST OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD. .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)
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
647 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2014
INZ039-047-048-292345-
HAMILTON-HANCOCK-MARION-
647 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2014
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ADVISORY FOR HAMILTON...NORTHWESTERN HANCOCK
AND EASTERN MARION COUNTIES UNTIL 745 PM EDT...
AT 645 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR NOBLESVILLE...OR 20 MILES NORTH OF
INDIANAPOLIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
INDIANAPOLIS...
NOBLESVILLE...
CARMEL...
FISHERS...
LAWRENCE...
WILLIAMS CREEK...
MERIDIAN HILLS...
NORTH CROWS NEST...
CASTLETON...
CROWS NEST...
BROAD RIPPLE...
ROCKY RIPPLE...
GEIST RESERVOIR...
INDIANA STATE FAIRGROUNDS...
MCCORDSVILLE...
FORTVILLE...
CUMBERLAND...
WARREN PARK...
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.
IN ADDITION...THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR
LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE.
TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED
ROADWAY.
&&
LAT...LON 3998 8586 3995 8587 3994 8582 3986 8574
3970 8613 4005 8625 4011 8624 4019 8605
TIME...MOT...LOC 2247Z 333DEG 15KT 4006 8610
NIELDThe Indianapolis radar (KIND), 40 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:55 UTC.
1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Pea sized hail fell on State Road 32 in Westfield and up to 4 to 6 inches of water was ponded in the same location due to heavy thunderstorm rainfall.
WISH-TV relayed a report of trees down at 10th and Lynhurst Drive, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, July 2014
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: 536942, 536955.