NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE - INDIANAPOLIS
INDIANA WEATHER HISTORY
DECEMBER
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4. 1998 SEVERAL SITES SET RECORD TEMPERATURES FOR THIS DATE.
EVANSVILLE RECORDED 73 DEGREES...INDIANAPOLIS 70 DEGREES...
AND FORT WAYNE AND SOUTH BEND EACH HAD A HIGH TEMPERATURE
OF 64 DEGREES.
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6. 1998 SEVERAL SITES SET RECORD TEMPERATURES FOR THIS DATE.
INDIANAPOLIS AND EVANSVILLE RECORDED 73 DEGREES...FORT
WAYNE 69 DEGREES AND SOUTH BEND 65 DEGREES. LATE IN THE
EVENING...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS JUST AHEAD OF A
STRONG COLD FRONT MOVED ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA DOWNING
TREES AND POWER LINES ACROSS SEVERAL COUNTIES.
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13. 1927 BETWEEN MOUNT VERNON AND OAKLAND CITY...A TORNADO
PRODUCED UP TO 100000 DOLLARS IN DAMAGE.
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15. 1987 HIGH WINDS GUSTED UP TO 70 MPH IN THE NORTH AND
CENTRAL PARTS OF THE STATE.
16. 1972 FAR NORTHERN INDIANA RECEIVED OVER ONE FOOT OF SNOW...
WITH 16 INCHES REPORTED AT SOUTH BEND. SNOW DRIFTED TO
8 FEET IN SOME LOCATIONS.
16. 1989 NEW CARLISLE...30 INCHES OF LAKE EFFECT SNOW FELL.
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19. 1973 HEAVY SNOW FELL OVER THE ENTIRE STATE ON THE 19-20TH...
WITH OVER ONE FOOT OVER MUCH OF NORTHERN INDIANA. SOME
SNOWFALL AMOUNTS INCLUDED 18 INCHES AT COVINGTON AND
17 INCHES IN LAFAYETTE AND PERU.
20. 1995 HEAVY SNOWS OF 6 TO 10 INCHES ON THE 19-20TH FELL
ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST INDIANA...ASSURING A WHITE
CHRISTMAS.
21. 1983 SNOW AMOUNTS OF 8 TO 10 INCHES FELL ACROSS NORTHERN
INDIANA ON THE 21ST TO 22ND.
22. 1990 AN ICE STORM BROUGHT UP TO 2 INCH ICE ACCUMULATIONS IN
THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE STATE.
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24. 1983 BLIZZARD CONDITIONS DEVELOPED ON THE 23RD AND CONTINUED
THROUGH THE 25TH IN NORTHERN INDIANA. BLOWING SNOW REDUCED
VISIBILITIES TO NEAR ZERO...WITH THE HIGHEST WIND GUST
REPORTED AS 56 MPH IN BENTON COUNTY. TEMPERATURES IN THIS
PERIOD PLUNGED AS LOW AS 20 DEGREES BELOW ZERO.
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26. 1988 UP TO 12 INCHES OF SNOW FELL IN THE NORTHWEST CORNER
OF THE STATE.
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28. 1990 ON THE 28TH TO THE 31ST...HEAVY SNOW COMBINED WITH
SNOWMELT PRODUCED SIGNIFICANT FLOODING OVER MUCH OF THE
STATE.
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30. 1973 ON THE 30TH TO 31ST...FROM 7 TO 12 INCHES OF SNOW FELL
OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST INDIANA. THE HEAVIEST SNOW FELL
IN MARION WHERE ONE FOOT WAS REPORTED.
31. 1990 WIDESPREAD FLOODING OCCURRED IN HOWARD COUNTY. WILDCAT
CREEK EXPERIENCED ITS WORST FLOOD SINCE 1913...AND NEARLY
70 PERCENT OF JACKSON WAS REPORTED TO BE UNDER WATER.
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