High Wind in Decatur, Indiana
High Wind November 5, 2022 · Decatur, Indiana
What the National Weather Service wrote
High gradient winds downed a tree onto a car on Interstate 74, 4 miles west-northwest of New Point, injuring one person. Multiple trees were reported downed across Decatur County.
The wider storm
A deep, occluded mid-latitude storm system tracking north-northeastward from the Quad Cities area, featured a strengthening upper-level wave. The wave's negatively-tilting trough axis created a strong wind field about 1 mile above the surface at the 850 millibar pressure level. This caused generally 50-60 mph wind gusts at the surface across central Indiana during mainly morning and midday hours on the 5th. The strongest, isolated wind gusts reached 58-65 mph, mainly across Tippecanoe County and Clinton County. Isolated damage reports were led by several counties east of Indianapolis that each reported multiple downed trees and/or numerous power outages.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1056187. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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