Drought — Madison, Indiana

2024-12-01 to 2024-12-31 · Madison, Indiana

Event narrative

Severe Drought intensity began on October 29, 2024 across the northern tier of Madison County, with Severe Drought ending over the Frankton and Alexandria communities on November 12, 2024.

Severe Drought continued along far northern Madison County into December; while well above normal precipitation totaling around 4.00 to 4.50 inches, led by around 2.00 to 2.50 inches through the month's last week, promoted an improvement to Moderate Drought over far northern portions of the county on December 31.

Wider weather episode

Severe Drought (D2) had expanded across much of northern Indiana through October 2024, including all of Carroll County and portions of 8 other northern central Indiana counties by October 29th. Severe Drought then shrank slightly over central Indiana on both November 12th and November 26th, with D2 prevalent through three counties in the Lafayette/Frankfort areas, and over small portions of four counties between the Kokomo and Muncie areas at the start of December. Mainly dry conditions through early December led to an increase in Severe Drought over three counties from the Kokomo to Tipton areas on December 10th, with subsequent ample three-week rainfall around 3.00 to 4.00 inches promoting a widespread improvement of D2 to Moderate Drought on December 31st, 2024.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1225313. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.