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Thursday Night Storm Update; Heavy Rain Maker Sunday…

We’re still quiet across central Indiana just before 10:30p, but showers and thunderstorms will overspread the area during the overnight. Best chances of the potential of damaging straight line winds will be along the western IN state line, but a couple of embedded strong storms and locally heavy rain will encompass all of the central portion of the state after midnight. Greatest coverage of showers and thunderstorms will come during the window of 1a and 6a.

Total rainfall amounts will average between 0.50″ and 1″ with a couple of locally heavier totals.

We still expect the rain to exit stage right well before the lunchtime hour Friday with dry conditions prevailing as we get set to put a wrap on the work week.

After the warmest day so far this year, temperatures will be much cooler Friday behind the cold front (to the tune of 20-30 degrees)!

Dry conditions will continue through the daytime Saturday, but a big ole wet storm system will be taking shape to our southwest by that time and it’ll have its’ eyes set on our area for an overnight arrival Sunday. The second half of the weekend will be dominated by gusty winds and wet conditions.

An all day soaker is expected with heavy rain at times. An additional 1″ to 2″ is a good bet Sunday.

After a dry open to April, we’re set to make up for the quiet times (and some) over the course of the next few days, and the hits don’t look to stop there as we head into next week.

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Monitoring The Threat Of Strong-Severe Storms Thursday Evening…

We continue to monitor the potential of strong to severe thunderstorms Thursday evening across the region. Already, the Storm Prediction Center highlights the possibility in their Day 4 Outlook below.

The setup will feature unseasonably warm and moist air being drawn northeastward ahead of a strong spring storm system to our northwest Thursday. This is the same storm system that will deliver a late season blizzard to the north-central Plains and upper Midwest.

A trailing cold front will push east into the unseasonably warm air mass (expecting highs in the mid-upper 70s Thursday with a strong and gusty SW wind) and we expect a line of thunderstorms to organize to our west Thursday afternoon. While timing will have to be fine tuned over the next couple of days, current thinking places this line of storms into central Indiana by Thursday evening. The primary threat continues to be damaging straight line winds.

We’ll turn drier and cooler to close the week and another storm system will approach by Saturday night. This particular storm system looks to deliver a widespread cold, soaking rain especially across the eastern half of the OHV region- from central IN and points east. More on this storm after we get rid of Thursday’s storms.

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