A Storm For The Books!

Well, you can see below that the really strong half of the storm did in fact stay to the south of the WLFI viewing area. sure we did see some storm damage reports in parts of Jasper county however we seen even more south of the viewing area. Just take a look at this radar image below.
This image as you can see was taken at 10:17am EDT. This was just after I gave the all clear. you can see all the Severe thunderstorm warnings along with Tornado warnings in effect just to our south. And even just to our east! I had many many storm damage reports come in from our south do to high wind! And a few tornadoes reports to our east! Here's the tornado reports below.

KOKOMO HOWARD IN. TORNADO SPOTTED AT 300 E AND 100 N. TREES DOWN ... SHED AND HOUSES DAMAGED.

WANATAH LA PORTE IN. EF1 TORNADO CONFIRMED IN LAPORTE COUNTY INDIANA. ESTIMATED MAXIMUM WIND SPEEDS IN THE 85-90 MPH RANGE. TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN AROUND 842 AM CDT AND MOVED NORTHEAST. TORNA

2 NNW WABASH WABASH IN. EF0 TORNADO CONFIRMED IN WABASH COUNTY INDIANA. ESITMATED MAXIMUM WIND SPEEDS IN THE 80-85 MPH RANGE. TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN AROUND 1018 AM EDT AND MOVED NORTHEAST FOR AP

We had many severe thunderstorm warnings put into effect do to high gusty winds in the area, Along with a few tornado warnings in effect do to the fact that the line of severe thunderstorms was "capable" of producing possible tornadoes however didn't Thank Goodness. At one time I did pick up some rotation in the WLFI viewing area, Yes, in Newton county. You can see the rotation in this image below.See that little dot of green inside all that red? That's the slight rotation. It didn't last long and thank God it didn't turn into anything. It just had us on high alert for a while! But everyone stayed calm, safe, and stayed storm ready, and that's all we can ask for!

Lafayette, seen winds gusting to 36 mph. We really lucked out! Remington, seen gusts to 41mph. But the more south you go from Lafayette, the winds really picked up! Gusting to 70 and even 80 mph!! Just take a look at some of the high wind and damage reports in Indiana below.

Wind And Wind Damage Reports From Indiana.

70mph... TERRE HAUTE VIGO IN, MEASURED 70 MPH GUST AROUND TERRE HAUTE WITH TREES DOWN.

65mph... POSEYVILLE POSEY IN.

UNK Wind Speed... COALMONT CLAY IN, TREE DOWN ON GARAGE AT 1973 E US HWY 40. POWER LINES ALSO DOWN.

Wind Speed UNK... WHEATFIELD JASPER IN, LAW ENFORCEMENT TREE TOPS SNAPPED OFF...TREES DOWN AND DEBRIS ON ROADS IN RUSTLING OAKS SUBDIVISION...COUNTY RD 1100N AND 400W.

UNK Wind Speed... W LEBANON BOONE IN. SR 32 CLOSED AT 700 W DUE TO POWER LINES DOWN ... DEBRIS AND OVERTURNED SEMI. US 52 IS ALSO BLOCKED BY A DOWNED TREE. I-74 PARTIALLY CLOSED AT MM 49.

UNK Wind Speed... DANVILLE HENDRICKS IN. 18 INCH DIAMETER TREE DOWN AT COOK AVE. POWER LINES ALSO DOWN. POWER OUTAGES IN DANVILLE ... PITTSBORO AND BROWNSBURG.

80mph... GREENFIELD HANCOCK IN. ESTIMATED GUSTS OF 80 MPH. MULTIPLE TRANSFORMERS BLOWING UP AND STREET SIGNS DOWN.

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With wind gusts like the one above reading 80mph, That's in the EF1 tornado range! EF1 tornado winds are between 73 and 112 mph!! Just CRAZY!! This storm is gonna be all the talk for a while! This low pressure was so strong, Or should I say the pressure dropped so much that this low pressure system is equivalent to a cat 3 or cat 4 hurricane! WOW!

And this storm was all over CNN as well. I found this video of some of the damage in MO, and IL, earlier. take a look. The size of the downed trees are just amazing!

I mean is that unbelievable or what? mother nature is an amazing powerful thing that's for sure! So be thankful that we made it through safe and sound here in the WLFI viewing area. many people went without power here in Indiana, for some time. Take a look at the thousands of people without power in just some of the Indiana, counties below.


MONTGOMERY 26 People without power.

CLARK 1159 People without power.

CLINTON 1022 People without power.

HAMILTON 2721 People without power.

HENRY 2002 People without power.

HOWARD 2820 People without power.

MONROE 2484 People without power.

TIPTON 1863 People without power.

WABASH 3684 People without power.

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And there's more then that!! A grand total of 29872 people without power!!!

This was an event and a half that's for sure. But what do we have to expect for Tomorrow? Well, here's the forecast below.

Wednesday we will look for less storms and more Partly cloudy to mostly sunny skies across the state! Highs will be around 62* degrees with lows falling into the low 40s around 42* degrees. I will have to keep some gusty winds in the forecast! winds between 20 and 25 mph gusting to 30 and 35 mph possible.

Extended Forecast... Thursday into the rest of the week we will look for cooler temperatures in the 50s and maybe even some 20s at night!! Yes, a Hard freeze is looking likely this week! Bye bye buggies!!!! YAY!! lol...

Anyway that's the latest on what we seen and what we can expect for tomorrow. have a great week bloggers. I'm gonna go get some rest!