Indiana, 2025

Hail in Indiana, November 18, 2025

November 18, 2025 · NWS IND · 3 events in 3 counties and zones

Numerous afternoon showers and thunderstorms, tracking eastward across central Indiana, had updrafts intensify from an approaching upper shortwave trough. Effective vertical wind shear around 35-40 knots combined with freezing levels down to only 10,000 feet to promote growth of small hail.

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
3

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 IND wrote it up.

Numerous afternoon showers and thunderstorms, tracking eastward across central Indiana, had updrafts intensify from an approaching upper shortwave trough. Effective vertical wind shear around 35-40 knots combined with freezing levels down to only 10,000 feet to promote growth of small hail. Small hailstones falling below the freezing level congealed into isolated large hail from Sullivan County to Jackson County. Sub-severe hail (0.75 inches) was also reported in Lawrence and Monroe Counties.

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:10 UTC.

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Event by event

3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Sullivan

When
November 18, 2:12 PM EST
Where
Sullivan County, 2.02 mi SW of Scott City
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
Public
Coordinates
39.183, -87.510

Hail, Owen

When
November 18, 2:35 PM EST
Where
Owen County, 2.67 mi E of Spencer
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
Public
Coordinates
39.280, -86.720

Hail, Jackson

When
November 18, 3:19 PM EST
Where
Jackson County, Ewing
Measured
2 in hail
Reported by
Public
Coordinates
38.880, -86.050

Photographs of hail in Brownstown area as large as one to two inches in diameter.

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1296373, 1296374, 1296375.