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2000 Indiana Weather In Review

2000 Begins, Drought Ends
The precipitation deficit for the preceding 12 months was 7.75 inches, but by the time the year ended, precipitation for the year 2000 was above average. The drought officially ended for most of central Indiana by the end of June. Flash floods swept parts of Lawrence County after two-day rains totaled 6 to 7 inches, flooding two dozen county roads and forcing one family to evacuate.

By October, drought fears were distant memories as farm granaries burst with near record harvests, and the White River in Southwest Indiana was swept with its greatest October flood since 1926 .

May 2000
May 18, brought an unusual series of violently rotating supercell thunderstorms across central Indiana. They dropped extraordinarily large hailstones. Softball size hail, very rare for Indiana, was reported near Cayuga, in west central Indiana. Numerous other places from Frankfort to Anderson reported golf ball to baseball size hail. Damage was estimated at more than 75 million dollars.

June 2000
A tornado was reported by officials June 24th in Greene County, just east of Bloomfield. No injuries were reported.

Funnel clouds were also sighted that day in Monroe County, and a factory was damaged extensively in Kokomo by high winds.

Tornadoes touched down briefly near New Castle Tuesday, June 20th. They lasted about ten seconds, and occurred north of New Castle near Middletown and Mount Summit. Minor damage to trees and several farm buildings was reported.

August 2000
August was an active month for severe thunderstorms, which occurred on seven days. On August 6 a microburst at daybreak downed numerous trees in Carmel and Noblesville. August 9 storms damaged cars from fallen trees at Muncie, and dropped tennis ball size hail at Rushville.

On Aug 17, golfball size hail pelted some areas, and baseball size hail was reported at Danville. Five inches of rain at Crawfordsville produced local flooding. A vicious storm hit the Vincennes area on Aug 27, destroying three barns.

September 2000
There were several public sightings of a tornado in Owen County around 3:30pm September 20th. Wind damage reports were common in many counties south and east of Indianapolis, with gusts in excess of 60mph.

December 2000 December 2000 will be remembered as cold and snowy, impacting travel and holiday shopping. The average temperature was third coldest since records began in 1871. At 9:36 PM December 16, the temperature dropped to the freezing mark, and remained below freezing for the remainder of the month.

16.3 inches of snow fell in December, making it the 3rd snowiest December since snowfall records began. A blanket of five inches of snow covered the ground Christmas morning making it the first White Christmas since 1995 and tied as the 4th deepest snow cover on Christmas Day.

Other Notes
The year produced a total of 178 severe weather reports in 39 counties of central Indiana. Of these 178 reports, 104 were severe winds and 72 were large hail. Only two weak tornadoes occurred.

February was the 10th warmest on record, 9.1 degrees above normal.

The high temperature of 76 on February 25 was the warmest ever for so early in the year.

March was a month of contrasts, the 2nd warmest in 53 years, but the 4th snowiest in 31 years.

Eight inches of snow fell on the February 11, three days after a high of 79 degrees.

The normally hot month of July ended up the coolest in 16 years. The warmest temperature in July was only 87, in fact, the temperature did not reach 90 until August 9th, the second latest first 90 degree temperature on record.

From October 6 through October 12, a very cold period occurred when lows each day were in the 30s, making this the longest stretch of such cold days for so early in the season since records began in 1871.

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