Hail — Daviess, Indiana

2022-05-19 · near Elnora, Daviess, Indiana

Event narrative

Thunderstorm produced large hail that led to the loss of 200 acres of corn and soybeans, with 1000 acres stripped to stubs. Fully headed wheat was also destroyed.

Wider weather episode

Ample instability and low-level vertical wind shear across central Indiana combined with a warm frontal boundary approaching from the south to produce several rotating, supercell thunderstorms. These storms produced large hail within a two hour late day period over several of the region's southwestern to south-central counties

Soon after, a rotating cluster of thunderstorms crossed southern central Indiana during the evening and early morning hours. This relative small, yet intense, complex of storms produced a long-track EF-1 tornado from Illinois into Gibson and Knox Counties in Indiana, as well as isolated, locally intense, damaging winds that were mainly in southeastern central Indiana.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1016205. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.