Thunderstorm Wind, La Porte
- When
- August 25, 6:30 PM EST
- Where
- La Porte County, Westville
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.550, -86.900
Tree blown down on U.S. Hwy 6.
Tornado and Damaging Wind in Indiana, August 25, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- 3
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 Aug 25, 2:54 PM EST, 3 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 2:54 PM EST, 3 hours 36 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 254 PM EST SAT AUG 25 2001 PRIMARY FCST CHALLENGE IS TSRA POTENTIAL FOR TONIGHT AND SUN AM. LATEST MSAS ANALYSIS INDICATED CDFNT FM NRN LWR MI TO S CNTRL IA. WRMFNT EXTD FM E CNTRL IA ACRS SRN IN TO ERN KY. MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND INSTABILITY AXIS WERE ALIGNED ALONG FRONTAL BOUNDARIES. 88D AND LIGHTNING DATA LOOPS INDICATED JUST SCT SHRA OVR CWFA...WITH TSRA OVR CNTRL IN. MODELS IN EXCELLENT AGREEMENT WITH BRINGING SHORTWAVE ACRS RGN TONIGHT AND SUN AM. AT THE SFC...MODELS MOV CDFNT ACRS CWFA TONIGHT AND SUN AM...WITH ETA OFFERING SLOWEST MOVEMENT. MODELS HAVE TRENDED SLOWER WITH THIS FEATURE PAST COUPLE OF RUNS...SO WL LEAN TOWARD SLOWER ETA SOLUTION...WHICH ALSO VERIFIED BEST COUPLE OF DAYS AGO WITH FRONTAL POSITION. DESPITE LACK OF ONGOING PRECIPITATION AND ONLY WK FORCING FM CDFNT AND DPVA...WL OPT FOR CATEGORICAL POPS TONIGHT DUE TO SATURATED AIRMASS...PW VALUES NEAR 2 INCHES. WET BULB ZERO HEIGHTS AROUND 12 TO 13K FT...SO HAIL NOT MUCH OF A THREAT IN TERMS OF SVR WEATHER. WOLCOTT PROFILER INDICATED 30 KT WNDS IN MID LVLS...BUT WITH SATURATED AIRMASS... SHOULD BE DIFFICULT TO GET MUCH MORE THAN THAT TO SFC. BASED ON SLOWER ETA SOLUTION...WL HOLD ON TO POPS FOR SERN HALF OF CWFA FOR SUN AM...THEN SHOULD GET PARTIAL CLEARING DUE TO DRIER AIR ADVECTING IN AND MIXING. UNDER INFLUENCE OF HI PRES...SKIES WL CLR EARLY SUN NIGHT. MODELS HAVE TRENDED A BIT MORE VIGOROUS WITH 5H SHORTWAVE AND CDFNT FOR MON NIGHT. MOISTURE STILL LOOKS LIMITED AND TIMING DOES NOT FAVOR CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT. GIVEN LOW CONFIDENCE FACTOR AND FOR SAKE OF CONTINUITY...WL KEEP DRY FOR NOW. AS FOR TEMPS...FAVOR COOLER FWC HIGHS NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS BASED ON RECENT PERFORMANCE AND TEMP SCHEMES. FWC AND MAV LOWS IN GOOD AGREEMENT AND LOOK REASONABLE. FOR THE EXTD...ECMWF CONTINUES TO OFFER SLIGHTLY SLOWER SOLUTION WITH SYS FOR THU NIGHT AND FRI THAN AVN/MRF. THUS...WK KEEP MENTION OF STORMS ONLY IN FRI PD. RMNDR OF EXTD LOOKS DRY. .IWX...NONE. BARJENBRUCH
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 99 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:29 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, La Porte
- When
- August 25, 6:45 PM EST
- Where
- La Porte County, 3 mi SW of La Porte
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 41.567, -86.750
An F0 tornado touched down in a field approximately 3 miles southwest of the city of La Porte near the intersection of County Roads 400 South and 500 West. The only damage was to corn and beans.
Funnel Cloud, La Porte
- When
- August 25, 7:13 PM EST
- Where
- La Porte County, 2 mi SW of La Porte
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.549, -86.742 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
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.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current in Delaware, August 25 to 26, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 25, 2001
- Tornado in Indiana, August 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Kansas, August 25, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 25, 2001
- Tornadoes in Wisconsin, August 25, 2001
- Rip Currents in New Jersey, August 25 to 26, 2001
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, August 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Illinois, August 25, 2001
- Hail in Texas, August 25, 2001
- Tornado in Illinois, August 25, 2001
- Hail in South Dakota, August 25, 2001
More
Every storm in Indiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Indiana, 2001Warnings 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: 5263951, 5263952, 5263953.