Severe Storms May 25

  This is a weather entry instead of an observing entry, but weather is all I have to document since early this month since May has featured a lot of cloudy and stormy nights! Some of the worst storms I've seen in years passed through Central Indiana on Wednesday, May 25th. Southeast Indianapolis experienced three different hail-producing thunderstorm cells from 2:30 - 8:30 PM. Two of them dropped quarter-sized hail. The worst was the second one just after 7:00 PM. Tons of quarter-sized hailstones dropped on us for about five or ten minutes. The sound was deafening. Weather warning sirens sounded all afternoon and evening. We had the hail, downpours of rain, some vivid lightning and loud thunder, and some high winds before midnight when the cold front finally moved through. The worst storms hit 40-50 miles south of us in Bloomington, Bedford, Columbus, and Greensburg where at least 5 tornado touchdowns had been confirmed as of Thursday evening.