SOUTHWEST WINDS GUSTING IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH WERE RECORDED ACROSS MUCH OF THE MIDWEST AHEAD OF AN INTENSE COLD FRONT ON FEBRUARY 11TH. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT AS IT MOVED THROUGH ILLINOIS AND INDIANA.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS IWX wrote it up.
SOUTHWEST WINDS GUSTING IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH WERE RECORDED ACROSS MUCH OF THE MIDWEST AHEAD OF AN INTENSE COLD FRONT ON FEBRUARY 11TH. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT AS IT MOVED THROUGH ILLINOIS AND INDIANA. WINDS REMAINED HIGH IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT DURING THE NIGHT OF FEBUARY 11TH AND IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF FEBRUARY 12TH WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS FROM THE WEST ABOVE 50 MPH.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A SEMI TRAILER WAS BLOWN OVER ON STATE ROAD 30 IN SOUTHERN LAPORTE COUNTY. SEVERAL TREES WERE REPORTED DOWNED IN MICHIGAN CITY.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, February 1999
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5678957.