Category: Hail

Severe Potential East Thursday; Great Weekend On Deck, And Looking Ahead To Next Week…

Needed moisture missed much of immediate central Indiana Tuesday. Areas south of the city picked up some locally heavy downpours, but the early morning diminishing convection to our northwest helped stabilize things just enough to prevent storms from redeveloping locally.

There will be another opportunity for getting some needed rain Thursday, but we caution coverage, yet again, will likely be of the “hit and miss” variety. Given some of the ingredients, a couple of severe cells will be possible ahead of the frontal boundary Thursday afternoon. Best chances of being impacted by a storm Thursday will be across east-central Indiana as a line of storms across Ohio “tails back” into Indiana. Accordingly, the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) does include this part of the state in a Slight Risk of severe weather Thursday.

Primary concerns for any stronger thunderstorm that develops will be large hail and straight line winds.

As we look ahead to the weekend, sprawling high pressure is still expected to move overhead and produce plentiful sunshine, low humidity (you’ll notice a big drop in moisture levels Thursday afternoon to Friday morning), and very pleasant temperatures.

Our next chance of rain and storms will arrive Monday into Tuesday.

More a bit later with the issuance of our Wednesday evening video update! Enjoy your Wednesday!

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Friday Evening All-Access Video Update: A Wet, Stormy Weekend Awaits…

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Short-Term Video Update: How Long Do Storms Last Tonight? Strong Storms Saturday PM?

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Short-Term Update: Keeping An Eye On Severe Potential This Evening-Tonight…

The Storm Prediction Center has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch in effect until 7p.


Greatest concern has to do with the Southwest flank of the thunderstorm complex that will continue to push southeast into the evening hours. (This is the same complex of storms that moved through MN and WI earlier this morning).

As we look at the ingredients needed for severe weather, there’s reason to believe this complex will hold together, including occasionally producing severe weather (large hail and damaging winds remain the biggest concerns) into portions of central Indiana by early to mid evening (5p-8p time frame).

This shouldn’t have any impact on another, more widespread, complex of storms that will initiate well to our north late tonight before rumbling south into central Indiana around, or just after, midnight in a weakening state…

More later!

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VIDEO: Humid Air Inbound; Storms Flare Up Later Today For Some…

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NowCast Update On This Afternoon’s Storm Threat Across The Ohio Valley…

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VIDEO: We Turn Much Colder This Evening; Timing Out Storms Into Easter Weekend And We Also Review The Late April Pattern…

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VIDEO: Busy Weather Day Across Central Indiana…

Significant weather alert day across central IN, including damaging wind potential and severe thunderstorms…

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Client Brief: Thursday Severe Weather Update…

Type: Damaging Winds And Severe Potential

What: All modes of severe weather, including tornadic potential. Damaging wind gusts.

When: Damaging wind gusts develop late tonight into the predawn Thursday. Severe storms are most likely Thursday afternoon into early Thursday evening.

Wind: SW 45-55 MPH with gusts of 60 MPH+

Winds will begin to gust to potentially damaging levels during the overnight tonight.

A couple of rounds of thunderstorms will impact central Indiana during the overnight and again Thursday afternoon and evening. It’s the second round tomorrow afternoon that has us most concerned for the potential of strong to severe thunderstorms. A lot of this hinges on just how much clearing takes place from the morning round of showers and embedded thunder. Should we clear things out in significant fashion, and introduce some sunshine, the threat of severe weather tomorrow afternoon will grow significantly. Conversely, should we hold onto a mostly overcast sky, this will limit the overall severity of afternoon storms. The sun would help destabilize things in rather rapid fashion and given some of the other parameters in place, would lead to all modes of severe weather with storms that develop tomorrow afternoon- including large hail and tornadoes.

Additionally, due to the sheer strength of the storm system, damaging winds are still in play tomorrow (even outside of thunderstorms). In fact, winds will begin to gust upwards of 50 MPH+ during the overnight period tonight. If you haven’t already, please take the time now to tie down or secure loose objects to keep them from being blown about in the wind.

Conditions will begin to improve as early as tomorrow night, although we’ll turn much colder. Air will grow cold enough to promote “wrap around” moisture to fall in the form of snow by Friday afternoon.

Threat of strong to severe storms will be greatest Thursday afternoon into the early evening hours.

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VIDEO: Heavy Rain And Storms Arrive Overnight…

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