Is everyone OK?

[PHJIrish]

I hope all have survived this vicious storm and with no loss of property.  It was a big one!!!

[wabashalwaysfights]

No damage out of the ordinary in the West Central portion of the state: some power outages on Sunday scattered throughout the area and some building damage from straight line winds, but nothing that we haven't seen before and, thankfully, no injuries.

A colleague of mine and I were discussing this: is the weather actually more severe than it has been in the past or are people just more concerned about it than we used to be?

[CoachMack219]

54 minutes ago, wabashalwaysfights said:

A colleague of mine and I were discussing this: is the weather actually more severe than it has been in the past or are people just more concerned about it than we used to be?

I think the highlighted section applies to weather and a slew of other topics as well. 

[Frozen Tundra]

1 hour ago, wabashalwaysfights said:

No damage out of the ordinary in the West Central portion of the state: some power outages on Sunday scattered throughout the area and some building damage from straight line winds, but nothing that we haven't seen before and, thankfully, no injuries.

A colleague of mine and I were discussing this: is the weather actually more severe than it has been in the past or are people just more concerned about it than we used to be?

I wouldn’t say it’s more severe now. With the advancement of science and technology, I think more storms are labeled as severe these days. If we had had this back then there would’ve been more storms labeled as “severe” back then as well. The 90s had some crazy weather and the 70s were even crazier.

Also, fear mongering drives views/ratings so more people freak out about it now due to the coverage on the news, YouTube, and social media.

[Plymouthfan91]

The town of Bourbon was hit hard.  This is where Triton High School is located.  They will for sure be out of school for the rest of the week.  

https://wsbt.com/news/local/severe-storms-weather-tornado-lightning-rain-wind-hail-home-tree-semis-overturned-us-30-rescue-bourbon-indiana

 

Edited April 3, 2025 by Plymouthfan91

[PHJIrish]

4 hours ago, wabashalwaysfights said:

No damage out of the ordinary in the West Central portion of the state: some power outages on Sunday scattered throughout the area and some building damage from straight line winds, but nothing that we haven't seen before and, thankfully, no injuries.

A colleague of mine and I were discussing this: is the weather actually more severe than it has been in the past or are people just more concerned about it than we used to be?

I don't know if it's more severe, but it is coming more often.

[Titan32]

Fort Branch Indiana....wind and some limbs down but we were lucky.

[US31]

Ther primary factor isn't if climate is changing or is not changing...

The primary factor is more property is developed, instead of rural/ag.  Therefore weather destroys more property than it used to. 

If last night's tornado came through BB/ZV/Carm in the 1980's... the number of properties damaged would have been a tiny fraction of the number properties damaged last night.

[BDGiant93]

On 4/2/2025 at 10:17 PM, PHJIrish said:

I hope all have survived this vicious storm and with no loss of property.  It was a big one!!!

No problems. I was actually at Ben Davis when they came through on April 2. That was a nasty one. Hope everyone is doing well across the state.

[psaboy]

The greater Granger area had some big wind damage. As I have seen the affected areas, 95% were pine trees getting up rooted and hitting properties, I removed all pines from property a few years ago. Beware of the pines !!

[crimsonace1]

On 4/3/2025 at 1:46 PM, US31 said:

Ther primary factor isn't if climate is changing or is not changing...

The primary factor is more property is developed, instead of rural/ag.  Therefore weather destroys more property than it used to. 

If last night's tornado came through BB/ZV/Carm in the 1980's... the number of properties damaged would have been a tiny fraction of the number properties damaged last night.

It went through the middle of Carmel - and nearly hit the City Center - so there would've been some property damage there anyway. The path through Brownsburg actually ran about a half-mile north of the house I grew up in. Its path would've been largely rural in the 1980s through Brownsburg to Eagle Creek Park. 

[Bash Riprock]

On 4/3/2025 at 12:19 PM, PHJIrish said:

I don't know if it's more severe, but it is coming more often.

Last 2 years have been higher in total, but no where near the history in severity.  I'd personally like to see more than 2 years to make a statistical judgment to say we are seeing a true increase, but no doubt in terms of frequency, last 2 years are at the totals of years such as 1965 and 1974.  But severity of the tornadoes is not comparable over the past 2 years.

Nice archive by the IndyStar

https://data.indystar.com/tornado-archive/