Thunderstorm Wind, Allen
- When
- April 6, 2:00 AM EST
- Where
- Allen County, Ft Wayne
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.067, -85.133
Warehouse at 4413 Dalman Rd had garage door and north wall blown out.
Damaging Winds in Indiana, April 6, 2001
2 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $27,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 5, 9:45 PM EST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 9:45 PM EST, 4 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 945 PM EST THU APR 5 2001 TSRA CONTINUING OVER NERN IL AND NWRN IND ATTM. WARM FRONT EXTENDS FROM NRN MO THRU CNTRL IL TO SRN IND. DP/S OF 60 F ARE ALONG AND TO S OF FRONT. LLVL JET OF 30-40 KT OVER IL AND IND SHUD BRING MOIST UNSTABLE AIR INTO FA BY 09Z. SOME ISOLATED SVR TSTMS POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT BUT EXPECT MAINLY HVY RAIN. ZNS LOOK ON TRACK WITH LOWS IN LWR TO MID 50S. .IWX...NONE. OHARA
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 5, 11:28 PM EST, 2 hours 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1128 PM EST THU APR 05 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION..|..
1110 AM NORTH JUDSON IN .5 INCH HAIL
04/05/01 STARKE REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR.The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 57 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:58 UTC.
Event by event
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Allen
- When
- April 6, 2:05 AM EST
- Where
- Allen County, Hessan Castle
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 40.983, -85.083
Fence destoryed. Post driven through a bedroom window. Gutter blown off a house.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, April 6, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, April 6, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, April 6, 2001
- High Wind in New Mexico, April 6, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, April 6, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, April 6, 2001
- Flood in North Dakota, April 6 to 30, 2001
- Flood in Minnesota, April 6 to 30, 2001
- Flood in North Dakota, April 6 to 30, 2001
- Flood in Minnesota, April 6 to 30, 2001
- Flood in Minnesota, April 6 to 27, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, April 6, 2001
More
Every storm in Indiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, April 2001
Sources
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: 5238576, 5238575.