Thunderstorm Wind, Daviess
- When
- August 13, 5:04 PM EST to 5:08 PM EST
- Where
- Daviess County, Washington
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.667, -87.167
Damaging Wind in Indiana, August 13, 2001
Several trees were down due to thunderstorm winds.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- None recorded
- 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 happened
The episode as NWS IND wrote it up.
Several trees were down due to thunderstorm winds.
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 Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 13, 2:30 PM EST, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 2:30 PM EST, 2 hours 34 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 230 PM EST MON AUG 13 2001 LRG SCALE TROFFING DVLPG OVR THE ERN U.S. WL INDUCE PROGRESSIVE NWLY FLOW ACRS THE AREA. THE FLOW WL TEND TO BACK TO A MORE WLY DIRECTION LT IN THE PD AS MORE ENERGY DIGS INTO THE NRN PLAINS. AT THE SFC...WK BOUNDARY CURRENTLY LOCATED OVR THE NWRN CWA IS XPCTD TO DRFT S OF THE CWA BY 02Z OR SO. SFC HI PRES WL FOLLOW IN ITS WAKE AND MOV TO THE ERN PARTS OF THE COUNTRY BY WED. IN THE NR TERM...SCT CONVECTION DVLPG ALONG BOUNDARY. AN AXIS OF LI/S TO ABOUT -6 EXISTS JUST AHEAD OF BOUNDARY...SO THINK THE THREAT OF CONVECTION WL REMAIN AHEAD OF BOUNDARY. WL PROBABLY HAVE TO MENTION THIS THREAT IN ZONES THIS EVEN. OTHERWISE...WX LOOKS TO BE QUIET IN THE LTR PDS AS SFC HI PRES MOVES ACRS THE AREA. THERE IS SOME CONCERN THAT PCPN THREAT FM NEXT SYS MAY ARRIVE IN THE WED NIGHT PD...SO MAY NEED TO MOV UP PCPN CHCS IN LTR FCSTS. BASED ON LO LVL THICKESS PTNS...NGM MOS HIGHS FOR WED APPEAR ABOUT 3-4 DEGS TOO WARM. WL ADJUST FOR THIS. REMAINDER OF PDS LOOK GOOD. .IND...NONE. JAS
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Heat in Texas, August 13, 2001
- Rip Current in Indiana, August 13, 2001
- Flash Flood in Virginia, August 13, 2001
- Lightning Strikes in New York, August 13, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, August 13, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, August 13, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 13, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Arizona, August 13, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, August 13, 2001
- Flash Flood and Flooding in New York, August 13, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, August 13 to 14, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New York, August 13, 2001
More
Every storm in Indiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, August 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: 5263795.