ALT Something different for today's Weather Story. This slide displays a table of data in various shades of light blue, under the title in big white letters stating, Recent Indianapolis Records, with subtitle in lemon yellow of much smaller font, Daily Records Tied or Broken at Indianapolis Since June 1st. The five columns of the table are Date, Record Type, New value, Old value, and Year of old record, while each row represents a new record. There are nine records, seven of which are record high minimum temperatures: first, July 3, 77, tied minimum for the date in 1911; then September 2, 3 and 4 which were 75, 75, and 77, respectively, passing old records of 74 from 1937, 1913, and 1884. September 16's was 75, breaking 74 from 1931. October 13 and 14 both had record high minimums of 66, breaking 64 from 1879 and tying 2021, respectively. Then two of the nine records were regular record highs (maximums) of 87 and 88 on October 12 and 13, surpassing 86 from both 1879 and 1975.

ALT This second slide shows a map of most of the United States, with three large areas depicting the ingredients for severe weather Sunday night into Monday: a large red area labeled Hot and Humid extends from the Gulf coast, north through the Plains and Indiana up to Wisconsin; a blue area labeled Strong Jet Stream curls from the Canadian border along North Dakota into the Great Lakes and then southeast into the eastern Midwest; then an overlapping yellow area labeled Severe Storm Potential goes form the Twin Cities southeast over much of Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. The slide title is Growing Concern for Severe Weather, with subtitle High Uncertainty on Specific Timing, but Generally Late Sunday Through Monday. Text on the let note confidence in Severe Weather is medium, but certainty in location and timing is low. Central Indiana will be in a hot spot for a few strong to severe storm complexes, although when and where the complexes begin and track is uncertain.

ALT Slight risk Friday for both severe storms and excessive rainfall. The severe risk is in our SW with main hazard of damaging winds but can't rule out hail or an isolated tornado. There is a slight risk of heavy rain and excessive rain leading to flooding near I-70 and south.

ALT This graphic displays Tornado Watch watch number 344 plotted on a map. The watch is in effect until 1:00 AM EDT. The watch includes parts of Indiana. The threats associated with this watch are a few tornadoes likely, scattered hail up to tennis ball size likely and widespread gusts up to 80 mph likely. There are 3,705,063 people in the watch along with 1043 schools and 93 hospitals.

ALT Today's graphic is two maps side by side displaying the severe thunderstorm outlook for today and tonight on the left, and Saturday and Saturday night on the right. Both maps only have the dark green, level 1, marginal risk for central Indiana, although yellow level 2 today back in Illinois and over in Ohio Saturday. The local dark green for tonight is northwest of a line from Terre haute to Zionsville to Alexandria. The broader dark green for Saturday includes the whole region except for areas southwest of Bedford. Short captions are found below each map: Tonight: Low chances of Isolated strong cells, stronger gusts possible north and west of Crawfordsville, Saturday and Saturday night, a few severe cells possible, most likely during afternoon to evening, and north of Interstate 74.

ALT Friday's map shows a Marginal Risk (Level 1 of 5) across areas mainly along and east of a Kokomo to Bloomington line. Monday's map shows a threat of severe weather across all of central Indiana.

ALT Map of Indiana showing Freeze Warning for Monday morning along and north of I-70 while a Frost Advisory has been issued for South Central Indiana.

ALT This graphic displays Severe Thunderstorm watch number 112 plotted on a map. The watch is in effect until 11:00 PM EDT. The watch includes parts of Indiana and Ohio. The threats associated with this watch are a couple tornadoes possible, scattered hail up to apple size likely and scattered gusts up to 70 mph possible. There are 5,280,914 people in the watch along with 1596 schools and 134 hospitals.

ALT Graphic showing the risk for isolated severe storms across north central Indiana later today and this evening, and across areas along and north of Interstate 70 late Tuesday and Tuesday night.