Waves of thunderstorms developed in a warm and unstable atmosphere on June 12th. The storms brought heavy rain and damaging winds to portions of central Indiana.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
Waves of thunderstorms developed in a warm and unstable atmosphere on June 12th. The storms brought heavy rain and damaging winds to portions of 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 Jun 12, 9:24 AM EST, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 358 AM EDT FRI JUN 12 2015 INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-131000- 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- 358 AM EDT FRI JUN 12 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. OUTLOOK: SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. HAZARDS: DAMAGING WINDS...TORRENTIAL RAINS PRODUCING LOCALIZED FLOODING...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. TIMING: GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WILL BE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. DISCUSSION: LOW PRESSURE WILL TRACK ALONG A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT ACROSS NORTHERN INDIANA LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY...INCREASING IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING. STORMS WILL DECREASE IN COVERAGE OVERNIGHT AS THE LOW SHIFTS OFF TO THE EAST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. OUTLOOK: DAILY CHANCES FOR SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH NEXT WEEK. LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH ANY STORM. A GREATER RISK FOR SCATTERED SEVERE STORMS WILL EXIST SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. DISCUSSION: A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE REGION THIS WEEKEND AND INTO NEXT WEEK. THE FRONT ALONG WITH OCCASIONAL UPPER WAVES WILL INTERACT WITH A VERY WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE AND RESULT IN AN UNSETTLED PERIOD THROUGH MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) INZ060>065-067>072-131000- SULLIVAN-GREENE-MONROE-BROWN-BARTHOLOMEW-DECATUR-KNOX-DAVIESS- MARTIN-LAWRENCE-JACKSON-JENNINGS- 358 AM EDT FRI JUN 12 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. OUTLOOK: SCATTERED STRONG STORMS. HAZARDS: GUSTY WINDS...TORRENTIAL RAINS PRODUCING LOCALIZED FLOODING...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL. DISCUSSION: LOW PRESSURE WILL TRACK ALONG A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT ACROSS NORTHERN INDIANA LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY...INCREASING IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING. STORMS WILL DECREASE IN COVERAGE OVERNIGHT AS THE LOW SHIFTS OFF TO THE EAST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. OUTLOOK: DAILY CHANCES FOR SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH NEXT WEEK. LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH ANY STORM. DISCUSSION: A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE REGION THIS WEEKEND AND INTO NEXT WEEK. THE FRONT ALONG WITH OCCASIONAL UPPER WAVES WILL INTERACT WITH A VERY WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE AND RESULT IN AN UNSETTLED PERIOD THROUGH MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/IND (ALL LOWERCASE) RYAN
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</html>The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 72 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:57 UTC.
11 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A large tree limb was downed due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts near the intersection of 7th and Harrison Streets.
Trees and power lines were down at the intersection of State Route 236 and Rangeline Road due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Traffic had to be rerouted.
A tree was blown down on the west side of Delphi, blocking Bicycle Bridge Road, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
Tree limbs, eight to ten inches in diameter, were downed due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
A 12-inch diameter tree was snapped and two 6-inch diameter trees were blown down due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
Siding was blown off of two homes due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
An eight-inch diameter tree was broken due to thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
Small tree limbs were blown down due to strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
A large burr oak tree, four feet in diameter, lost half of its crown due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. A three-foot diameter chunk of the tree snapped and took out power lines approximately 1.5 miles north of the intersection of Highway 52 and Klondike Road. There was partial rot in the heartwood, otherwise, it was a healthy tree.
A pole barn was damaged with metal strewn out into a field due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
Power lines were downed, trees were damaged, and there was damage to a structure from County Road 75 West to County Road 300 West along County Road 800 North due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, June 2015
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: 585588, 585594, 585617, 585596, 585600, 585606, 585608, 585611, 585718, 585613, 585615.