Power Outage in Bloomington, IN

A 58 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured at the BMG ASOS. Numerous trees and power lines downed nearby with over 25000 power outages caused by the storm.

Power outages across the county peaked over 1500 with several reports of trees and powerlines downed due to the strong gradient winds.

Gusty gradient winds caused brief power interruptions and fallen tree limbs across Bloomington.

A couple trees, 1.5 feet in diameter, were downed due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Power was knocked out and winds were estimated at 50 to 60 mph.

Also, a part of a large tree was snapped and brought down some power lines due to strong thunderstorm wind gusts.

Power lines were reported down in Bloomington due to high, non-thunderstorm damaging wind gusts. A few power outages were reported from across county.

Reports of additional scattered power outages were noted as tree limbs and power lines were downed.

Approximately one quarter inch of ice accumulation from freezing rain was received. Scattered power outages were also noted.

Power lines were blown down at the south end of Lake Monroe.

A record breaking low pressure system impacted Indiana on March 3rd initially bringing rain and strong to damaging gradient winds to the area. During the early afternoon hours, a weakening area of storms moved into southern Indiana and caused isolated damaging winds gusts while the gradient winds continued to gradually increase causing additional tree damage and power outages. Across northern Indiana, rain then transitioned to snow with light but non-impactful accumulations. Peak power outages across the state were briefly over 40,000 with much of them along the Ohio River where the thunderstorm winds were more widespread.

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.

Scattered thunderstorms developed across portions of central Indiana during the afternoon hours of June 1st. As these storms pushed generally south or south-southeast, a few of them downed trees, limbs, power lines across locations south of Interstate 70. One of the strong thunderstorms moved across Monroe Lake and a 26-year-old man that was swimming in the lake drowned as the wind and the rain kicked up.

A few severe thunderstorms, including one powerful supercell, moved mainly southern portions of central Indiana on 7 June 2006. The supercell produced a tornado in eastern Jackson county. This tornado took an unusual path from north to south.

A very strong bow echo moved from north to south across west central and southwest Indiana on the afternoon and evening of 13 July 2004, with measured winds as high as 72 mph reported. Very widespread wind damage occurred with the bow echo, with a large amount of damage to trees, power lines, and utility poles. Some structural damage occurred as well.

Separate clusters of severe thunderstorms laid a path of downed trees and power lines as well as large hail across central Indiana. Two trees fell on a 1992 Grand Am in Bloomfield totalling it.

A strong upper level system moved along the Ohio River during the evening of December 13. The system produced moderate to heavy snow across South Central Indiana during the morning and afternoon of December 13 before the precipitation changed over to freezing rain during the evening. Law enforcement reported significant ice amounts as much as 1/2 an inch on top of the snow across South Central Indiana. Power outages were noted across many of these counties.

Separate lines of thunderstorms swept across central Indiana producing numerous large hail and damaging wind reports as a strong low pressure system moved across the state during the afternoon of April 20, 2000. In addition, a single thunderstorm moved across in the early morning producing golfball size hail near Pendleton. The first line of thunderstorms moved across northwestern parts of the IND CWA just before noon producing penny to golfball size hail across Tippecanoe, Carroll and Warren counties. The second line produced large hail but more notably damaging winds across the center of the IND CWA. The worst damage was near Bloomington, Terre Haute, Lebanon and Nineveh in Johnson county. Structural damage occured across these areas. In Bloomington, 1 person was injured as three mobile homes were blown off their foundations from winds estimated up to 70 mph. A parked vehicle was damaged in downtown Bloomington, while a car was damaged as part of the sheet metal roof of the Indiana University Creative Arts building was thrown on it. 10 homes, a few businesses and 3 vehicles received significant damage in southern Johnson county from Princes Lake to Nineveh. National Weather Service survey indicated straight-line microburst damage with winds estimated to around 80 mph. Several homes received minor structural damage and a mobile home was overturned 7 miles northwest of Terre Haute, while Lebanon also saw some roof damage and a tree fell on a car in Martinsville. Otherwise, some other central Indiana sites saw large hail and numerous trees and power lines down.