The southwest tail end of a widespread band of showers pushed through southwest portions of central Indiana during the late afternoon and evening of the 3rd of October. One of these showers produced a 50 mph wind gust that downed a tree limb.
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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.
The southwest tail end of a widespread band of showers pushed through southwest portions of central Indiana during the late afternoon and evening of the 3rd of October. One of these showers produced a 50 mph wind gust that downed a tree limb.
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 Oct 3, 5:55 PM EST, 15 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 959 AM EDT FRI OCT 3 2014 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-041000- 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- 959 AM EDT FRI OCT 3 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. OUTLOOK: SCATTERED SHOWERS. GUSTY WINDS. HAZARDS: BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. WIND GUSTS 30 TO 35 MPH. TIMING: SHOWERS THROUGH THIS EVENING. GUSTY WINDS DURING THE DAY. DISCUSSION: SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE AS A COLD FRONT SWEEPS THROUGH THE REGION THIS MORNING. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES INTO THE LOWER GREAT LAKES. WINDS MAY GUST TO 30 TO 35 MPH AS COLDER AIR MOVES INTO THE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. OUTLOOK: GUSTY WINDS WILL BE FOUND ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA IN THE WAKE OF A COLD FRONT THROUGH SATURDAY. WITH TEMPERATURES FALLING INTO THE 30S SATURDAY NIGHT...PATCHY FROST WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA...MAINLY IN SHELTERED AREAS. DISCUSSION: GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SATURDAY AS COLDER AIR MOVES IN. A MUCH COOLER AND UNSETTLED WEATHER PATTERN IS EXPECTED THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND INTO 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) RYAN
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 39 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:12 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree limb was downed on Airport Road due to strong thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 50 mph.
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, October 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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 546640.