Illinois, 2001High Wind in Illinois, April 12, 2001
April 12, 2001 · NWS LOT · 1 event in 1 county or zone
1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Chicago, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 12, 1:34 AM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 12, 1:34 AM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
106 AM CDT THU APR 12 2001
AT 04Z CONVERGENCE ZONE AT SURFACE ALONG IN/IL BORDER WITH TSTM LINE
RAPIDLY FORMING AHEAD OF IT. DRY LINE WAS NR STL-MSN LN MOVG EAST.
GUSTY SW WINDS TO 30KTS JUST TO OUR SW MOVG NE WITH LOW OVER NW IA.
NICE VORT SPIN OVER NORTH CENTRAL IA PER SATL PICS WITH BAND SHOWERS
IN STRONG PVA ZONE JUST CLIPPING XTRM NW IL AT 06Z. THIS FALLING OUT
OF MID DECK WITH VORT MAX. CLOUDS GO DOWN TO N MO OR BASE OF 50% RH SO
LOOKS LIKE THIS WILL ROTATE OVER THE AREA TODAY WITH MOSTLY CLOUDY N
AND VARIABLE CLOUDS SOUTH. WILL ALSO STAY N OF MODLE MID LEVEL JET
BASED ON 500 VORT PATTERN FORECAST TODAY. TREND WILL BE CLEARING
TONIGHT. THIS WHOLE SPIN AREA MOVES RAPIDLY TO OUR NW TODAY. CLOUDS
WILL PROBABLY HOLD WIND SPEED DOWN SOME SO A MARGINAL WIND ADVISORY
SITUATION.
NEW VORT NOW IN NV THEN COMES OUR WAY TONIGHT BUT SHEARS APART AS FLOW
GOES ZONAL. THIRD VORT THEN MOVES OVER MN/WI FRI NIGHT. MODELS
ESPECIALLY AVN BRINGS SLUG RH OVER AREA WITH THIS BUT WILL LEAVE DRY
FOR NOW AS DYNAMICS LOOK TO STAY N OF US.
WITH GOOD CCA TODAY EXPECT HIGHS IN 60S EARLY MORNING AND THEN A SLOW
FALL INTO THE 50S WHERE WILL HOLD STEADY. TEMP GUIDANCE LOOKS GOOD.
.CHI...GALE LM
WIND ADVISORY ALL AREA
CORD WITH ILX
AF
High Wind, Cook
- When
- April 12, 4:00 AM CST to 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cook forecast zone
- Measured
- 43 kt (49 mph)
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
Winds gusted to 46 mph in Chicago and 49 mph at Waukegan. At around 500 AM CDT winds knocked down a cinder block wall at a construction site on the northwest side of Chciago, damaging 4 parked cars. At 1130 AM strong winds peeled off a brick facade from an old warehouse building on the south side of Chicago, damaging a pick-up truck. Blowing debris broke a window in a high rise building in downtown Chicago.
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Rip Current in Puerto Rico, April 12, 20013 deaths · 1 event
- High Wind in Ohio, April 12, 20011 death · $815,000 · 26 events
- High Wind in Michigan, April 12, 20011 injured · $1.1 million · 53 kt wind · 8 events
- High Wind in New York, April 12, 2001$100,000 · 1 event
- Lightning Strike in Mississippi, April 12, 2001$75,000 · 1 event
- High Wind in Indiana, April 12, 20011 injured · 52 kt wind · 4 events
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, April 12, 200153 kt wind · 9 events
- Flash Flooding in Michigan, April 12 to 18, 20017 events
- Heavy Snow in Utah, April 12, 20015 events
- Flooding in Ohio, April 12 to 13, 20013 events
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, April 12, 2001$3,000 · 55 kt wind · 3 events
- High Wind in Wisconsin, April 12, 200152 kt wind · 2 events
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: 5238881.