Weather forecasting is a dicey business.  Weather can form quickly without a lot of advance warning.

I went to bed just before midnight Saturday without any clue that storms of any consequence were possible.  Normally, weather forecasters give you some heads up that bad weather is at least possible.

After I was sound asleep early Sunday morning, forecasters at the National Weather Service began issuing watches and warnings about severe storms popping up and headed our way.

I turn off my cell phone overnight, but my wife Jane leaves her phone on.  Just before 3am, her phone began shrieking.  She told me a tornado warning had been issued and it included Fishers.  Two minutes later, the sirens began sounding in Fishers.

The National Weather Service in Indianapolis makes the decision to issue watches and warnings.  The Hamilton County Emergency Management operation saw to it that sirens sounded and the alerts went out.

Jane & I spent about 30 minutes huddled in our safest home location until the warning expired for Fishers at 3:30am.  We could hear the storm, with lots of thunder, rain and wind.

Fortunately, according to Hamilton County Emergency Management, power outages were scattered and generally repaired quickly.  A tree  did down a power line in the Sheridan area resulting in a longer outage there.

The emergency management people and the National Weather Service say the Tornado Warning was issued due to rotation in the storm clouds in the area of State Road 32 and the Boone County Line, detected by weather radar.  No tornado was ever observed or reported.

My thanks to the weather forecasters at the National Weather Service office in Indianapolis and the Hamilton County Emergency Management staff.  They did their jobs in the middle of the night.  Fortunately, no tornadoes formed, but if one had hit Hamilton County, at least we had fair warning.