Thunderstorm Wind — Adams, Indiana

2019-05-16 · near Linn Grove, Adams, Indiana

Event narrative

The public shared a picture on twitter of a large barn with roughly one quarter of its roof blown off.

Wider weather episode

Although the area was in the wake of a MCV, a west to east instability gradient was in place across northern Indiana and Ohio during the late evening of May 16 and early overnight hours of May 17. A strengthening low level jet, MUCAPES of at least 2000 J/KG along with a EML intruding that allowed mid level lapse rates to approach 7 C/km. Sufficent shear exists to allow several supercell type storms to develop and maintain large hail cores, with hail greater than two inches falling in a few locations.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 829304. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.