July16 - 26, 2005
Week and a half of Severe Weather
A ring of fire set up across the nation with Lafayette, IN right in sight
of it. It brought us out of the 2005 drought. While it Provided Flash Floods,
Extraordinary Lightning, Microbursts, and Gustnadoes, to Lafayette. The
storms produced a couple tornadoes as well toward Clinton, county. July 16th
and July 17th both brought flash floods winds in excess of 60 mph and
deadly lightning. This system then began to push off to the east while another
trough was ejecting into the western United States. Hurricane Emily pushed
into Mexico around a high pressure center that dominated the southeast. The
moisture from the hurricane wrapped northward and jump started the
monsoon season in the dessert southwest. Some of this moisture continued
northward along the trough and cruised with a storm system that traveled the
US and Canada border and then eastward with a trailing cold front. The
clash of air masses came to a height over the Midwest which refired the ring
of fire. On July 26 a line of storms approached Lafayette around 8pm.
These storms produced extraordinary lightning, and heavy rain. The storms
then produced a microburst over the eastside of Lafayette which did great
damage. Then along the gust front a few more miles to the east, a gustnado
formed producing F-0 damage in the town of Dayton, IN. It is the second
time in a year and a half that Dayton, IN received F-0 damage either from a
tornado or gustnado. This was a lot of severe weather in a short period of
time during a year that has seen very little severe weather reports to date.