Thunderstorm Wind, Pulaski
- When
- June 7, 4:31 PM CST to 4:36 PM CST
- Where
- Pulaski County, 0.52 mi E of Medaryville
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 41.080, -86.890
Several 8-12 inch tree limbs down.
Tornado and Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 7, 2015
A warm front lifted through the area on the afternoon of June 7 which advected a moist low level environment into northern Illinois. This increased instability by late afternoon as storms initiated ahead of a cold front across central Illinois.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 5
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS IWX wrote it up.
A warm front lifted through the area on the afternoon of June 7 which advected a moist low level environment into northern Illinois. This increased instability by late afternoon as storms initiated ahead of a cold front across central Illinois. Storms congealed into a multicell cluster and a bookend vorticity formed on the northern edge of the storms. This is where the tornado occurred in Starke County.
What forecasters said that day
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 Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 7, 1:33 PM CST, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 1:33 PM CST, 2 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 333 PM EDT SUN JUN 7 2015 .SYNOPSIS... ISSUED AT 325 PM EDT SUN JUN 7 2015 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD. A FEW STORMS MAY BE STRONG THIS EVENING. LOWS TONIGHT WILL BE IN THE 60S. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AND MONDAY EVENING BEFORE CONDITIONS DRY ON TUESDAY. HIGHS MONDAY AND TUESDAY WILL BE IN THE UPPER 70S AND 80S. && .SHORT TERM...(THIS EVENING THROUGH MONDAY) ISSUED AT 325 PM EDT SUN JUN 7 2015 OUTFLW BNDRY FM MORNING MCS WASHING OUT THROUGH NRN IN ATTM. SOME UPSTREAM ELEVATED REDVLPMNT TAKING PLACE WITHIN ZONE OF ENHANCED WWA ALG WRN FLANK OF DECAYING BUBBLE HIGH AND XPC THIS WILL FESTER A WHILE LONGER PRIOR TO XPCD MORE VIGOROUS SFC BASED DVLPMNT INVOF OF NE MO AND/OR WRN IL. THAT SAID SVR RISK IS ABOUT NIL OTHER THAN A MARGINAL HAIL THREAT OVR WRN ZONES IN ASSOCN/W ELEVATED STORMS THIS AFTN. REGARDLESS MAJOR CHGS REQUIRED TO PRIOR AND EXISTING GRIDS. NO DOUBT INCIPIENT NR TERM CONV FOCUS HAS SHIFTED WELL SWWD INVOF OF SRN FLANK OF STALLED OUTFLW BNDRY. WRN PORTION OF THIS MAY MIX A BIT FURTHER NWD YET THIS AFTN AS CONFIRMED IN SFC OBS AND IN ASSOCN/W LARGER SCALE SW TROUGH DIGGING SHARPLY SEWD ACRS ND AS HGT FALLS SPREAD EWD ACRS THE LAKES. HWVR POLLUTED WARM SECTOR AHD OF WK SFC CDFNT WILL HAMPER ANY SIG SFC BASED DESTABILIZATION LOCALLY AND SUSPECT AS FLW VEERS IN WAKE OF MCV LTL MORE THAN SOME SCT SHRA WILL RESULT THIS EVENING AND LIKELY DRY AFT MIDNIGHT. ND WAVE WILL DIG THROUGH LWR MI ON MON W/DECENT HGT FALLS SPREADING SEWD ACRS THE CWA. HWVR COMPOSITE OUTFLW/CDFNT DOWN ALG THE OH RVR AND POST FNTL DRYING SUGGESTS TEMPERING AFTN POPS FURTHER ESP IN LIGHT OF WHAT SHLD BE LIMITED DIURNAL DESTABILIZATION W/COOLER SPECTRUM OF MET MOS PREFERRED. && .LONG TERM...(MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY) ISSUED AT 325 PM EDT SUN JUN 7 2015 FOR THE FIRST PORTION OF THE LONG TERM FORECAST THE CWA WILL BE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A BROAD 500MB TROUGH PARKED OVER THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES...QUEBEC...AND ONTARIO. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT IMPACT THE AREA SUN/MON WILL EXIT THE AREA BY MONDAY EVENING AS THE FIRST WAVE MOVES OUT. RELATIVELY ZONAL FLOW TAKES OVER BRIEFLY FOR TUESDAY WITH SFC HIGH PRESSURE IN PLACE...SO EXPECT DRY MAINLY DRY CONDITIONS FOR TUESDAY...WITH HIGHS IN THE LOW TO MID 80S FOR MOST LOCATIONS AS 850MB TEMPS RISE TO 14-15C. THE SECOND SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH ON WEDNESDAY. VERTICALLY STACKED LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL REACH NORTHERN ONTARIO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND MOVE INTO QUEBEC BY THURSDAY MORNING. THIS WILL BRING A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE CWA WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. BOTH ECMWF/GFS HAVE 1000-1500 J/KG MUCAPE WITH 30-40 KNOTS 0-6KM BULK SHEAR. MOISTURE LOOKS TO BE FAIRLY LIMITED HOWEVER...WITH PWATS AROUND 1.3 INCHES. KEPT GOING MENTION OF SHOWER/T-STORMS FOR WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE COLD FRONT DRIFTS TOWARDS THE SOUTHERN CWA THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND BECOMES STATIONARY AS LOW PRESSURE TAKES SHAPE IN THE CENTRAL/NORTHERN PLAINS. THIS WILL BRING ADDITIONAL CHANCES FOR SHOWERS/T-STORMS. EVENTUALLY MOISTURE TRANSPORT/WAA INCREASE AHEAD OF THE APPROACHING SYSTEM...FORCING THE BOUNDARY NORTHWARD AS A WARM FRONT FRIDAY MORNING. THIS PUTS THE CWA SQUARELY INTO THE WARM SECTOR. FLOW ALOFT IS ZONAL...WITH STRENGTHENING HIGH OVER THE ATLANTIC/SOUTHEASTERN U.S. AND A TROUGH OVER THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST. MODEL DIFFERENCES BECOME SIGNIFICANT AT THIS POINT...BUT GIVEN THE EVENTUALLY STALLED BOUNDARY AND SOMEWHAT ZONAL FLOW THINK CONSENSUS CHANCE-SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ARE WARRANTED FOR NOW. PATTERN REMAINS RELATIVELY UNCHANGED THROUGH MONDAY OF NEXT WEEK. TEMPERATURES REMAIN STEADY AND NORMAL TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH THE WEEK...WITH HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S AND 80S...AND LOWS IN THE 60S. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 18Z TAFS THROUGH 18Z MONDAY AFTERNOON) ISSUED AT 148 PM EDT SUN JUN 7 2015 MURKY NR TERM OWING TO RAPIDLY DECAYING OUTFLW BNDRY PROGRESSING THROUGH THE CWA AND NEW ELEVATED DVLPMNT ALG WRN FLANK OF BUBBLE HIGH CURRENTLY CNTRD OVR NRN IL. UPSTREAM AIRMASS ACRS NRN MO/SW IL QUITE UNSTABLE AT THIS HOUR W/ROBUST LLJ IN PLACE AHD OF MCV TRACKING ACRS NRN LK MI. GIVEN ORIENTATION OF LLJ XPC CONTD REDVLPMNT WILL EXTEND EWD THROUGH NW IN/SW MI BFR FOCUSING SWWD FM NE MO THROUGH CNTRL IL BY MID AFTN. THIS SHLD SPURN SOME EMBEDDED STRATIFORM SHRA ACRS THE TERMINALS THIS EVENING YET SHIFT THE THUNDER THREAT TO DOWNSTATE IL/IN. && .IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. MI...NONE. OH...NONE. LM...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR LMZ043-046. && SYNOPSIS...MCD SHORT TERM...T LONG TERM...MCD AVIATION...T VISIT US AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/IWX (ALL LOWER CASE) FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK...TWITTER...AND YOUTUBE AT: WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/NWSNORTHERNINDIANA WWW.TWITTER.COM/NWSIWX WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/NWSNORTHERNINDIANA
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 7, 8:22 AM CST, 8 hours 9 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1022 AM EDT SUN JUN 7 2015 INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ078>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-081000- LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB-STARKE- PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY-ALLEN IN-WHITE-CASS IN- MIAMI-WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY-CASS MI- ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-HENRY- PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT-ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND... MISHAWAKA...ELKHART...GOSHEN...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...ANGOLA... KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...AUBURN...GARRETT...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON... WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...ROCHESTER...WARSAW... WINONA LAKE...COLUMBIA CITY...SOUTH WHITLEY...FORT WAYNE... MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON...LOGANSPORT...PERU...WABASH... NORTH MANCHESTER...HUNTINGTON...BLUFFTON...OSSIAN...DECATUR... BERNE...MARION...HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...DOWAGIAC... CASSOPOLIS...STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...COLDWATER...HILLSDALE... BRYAN...WAUSEON...ARCHBOLD...DEFIANCE...NAPOLEON...PAULDING... ANTWERP...OTTAWA...PANDORA...VAN WERT...DELPHOS...LIMA 1022 AM EDT SUN JUN 7 2015 /922 AM CDT SUN JUN 7 2015/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO... NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INTO NORTHWEST INDIANA. THE STORMS WILL MOVE EAST INTO NORTHWEST OHIO TO EAST CENTRAL INDIANA THIS EVENING. A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF THE ROUTE 24 CORRIDOR. THERE IS ALSO A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY INTO SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-081000- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 1022 AM EDT SUN JUN 7 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. LOCALIZED WIND GUSTS GREATER THAN 40 KNOTS AND HIGH WAVES CAN BE EXPECTED IN AND NEAR STORMS. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDDAY THROUGH THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM CHANCES ARE EXPECTED THURSDAY INTO SATURDAY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX MIZ077-081000- BERRIEN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NILES...BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH... BUCHANAN 1022 AM EDT SUN JUN 7 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INTO NORTHWEST INDIANA. THE STORMS WILL MOVE EAST INTO NORTHWEST OHIO TO EAST CENTRAL INDIANA THIS EVENING. A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. HAZARDOUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS MAY OCCUR AT LAKE MICHIGAN BEACHES TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM CHANCES ARE EXPECTED THURSDAY INTO SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 3:56 PM CST, 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
556 PM EDT SUN JUN 7 2015
INZ003-012-072230-
LA PORTE IN-STARKE IN-
456 PM CDT SUN JUN 7 2015
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD SOUTHWESTERN LA PORTE AND
WESTERN STARKE COUNTIES...
AT 454 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LA CROSSE...OR 10 MILES EAST
OF DE MOTTE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL...WINDS GREATER THAN 40 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
LA CROSSE...
NORTH JUDSON...
SAN PIERRE...
LOMAX AND SAN PIERRE...
ENGLISH LAKE...
ENGLISH LAKE...
GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS TO BLOW
AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES.
SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT SUNDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN INDIANA.
LAT...LON 4122 8693 4135 8694 4137 8667 4119 8665
4118 8694 4122 8694
TIME...MOT...LOC 2156Z 264DEG 21KT 4125 8699
BENTLEYLocal storm report, Jun 7, 4:27 PM CST, 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
627 PM EDT SUN JUN 7 2015
...TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
...DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0605 PM TSTM WND DMG 1 SSW WANATAH 41.42N 86.90W
06/07/2015 LA PORTE IN PUBLIC
REPORTS OF TREE AND 8" LIMB DOWN NEAR
WANATAH. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR.
&&
MCDThe radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:28 UTC.
Event by event
4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Starke
- When
- June 7, 4:31 PM CST to 4:36 PM CST
- Where
- Starke County, 1.84 mi S of English Lake to 1.76 mi SSE of English Lake
- Rating
- EF1
- Path length
- 0.25 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Reported by
- NWS Storm Survey
- Coordinates
- 41.244, -86.823
A NWS storm survey confirmed an EF-1 tornado embedded within in sporadic wind damage. The tornado touched down in the vicinity of the 6350 block of County Road 400 South and continued east-northeast to the 6250 block of County Road 400 South where four to five dozen trees were either uprooted or snapped. There were no trees left standing in the front yard of this residence. The tornado dissipated shortly after as it turned towards the northwest and continued into the field to the north. The extensive damage in this isolated area was likely associated with the slow forward motion of this tornado as well as wet sandy soil in the area. The tornado was on the ground for around two tenths of a mile with a maximum width of 100 yards and maximum estimated wind speeds of around 95 mph.
Thunderstorm Wind, Pulaski
- When
- June 7, 4:35 PM CST to 4:40 PM CST
- Where
- Pulaski County, 5.08 mi NNE of Medaryville
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 41.150, -86.870
Reports of trees snapped and uprooted. Health and size of trees undefined.
Thunderstorm Wind, Starke
- When
- June 7, 4:48 PM CST to 4:53 PM CST
- Where
- Starke County, Knox May Arpt
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 41.180, -86.600
Reports of trees greater than 12 inches in diameter snapped and uprooted.
Thunderstorm Wind, Fulton
- When
- June 7, 6:13 PM EST to 6:18 PM EST
- Where
- Fulton County, 0.52 mi E of Fulton
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- State Official
- Coordinates
- 40.950, -86.260
Power line blown down by wind gust.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Flooding and Hail in Illinois, June 7, 2015
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- Damaging Winds in Illinois, June 7, 2015
- Damaging Winds in Texas, June 7, 2015
More
Every storm in Indiana in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Indiana, 2015Warnings in Indiana, June 2015
Sources
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: 588431, 588432, 588433, 588434, 588436.