Hail and Damaging Wind in Indiana, August 30, 2001

Name: Hail and Damaging Wind in Indiana, August 30, 2001
Start: 2001-08-30T14:23
End: 2001-08-30T15:12
Location: Indiana

August 30, 2001 · NWS IND · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

Nickle size hail reported at Ockley and trees down at Battle Ground due to thunderstorm winds.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
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 happened

The episode as NWS IND wrote it up.

Nickle size hail reported at Ockley and trees down at Battle Ground 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 30, 2:15 PM EST, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 2:15 PM EST, 8 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
215 PM EST THU AUG 30 2001

MAIN PROBLEM WITH THIS FORECAST WILL BE CHANCES OF RAIN TONIGHT THEN
HOW COOL IT WILL GET. TSTMS DEVELOPED IN NW INDIANA THIS AFTN. LOOKS
LIKE 65 VIL NEEDED FOR SEVERE HAIL. PVA MOVS INTO INDIANA OVERNIGHT.
WITH HIGH DEW POINTS THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY TONIGHT. WILL TIME
IT TO AFT MIDNIGHT CENTRAL AND SOUTH. WITH CLOUD COVER AND DEW
POINTS REMAINING HIGH WILL GO A DEGREE OR SO ABOVE GUIDANCE. WILL
HAVE TO SEE IF SPC ISSUES A WATCH FOR ANY PORTION OF INDIANA.

COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH OF INDIANA ON FRIDAY. ALL MODELS QPF SHOW
RAIN CONTINUING OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA. WILL JUST GO FOR
A CHANCE NORTH WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY CENTRAL AND
SOUTH. WILL END THE RAIN DURING THE MORNING CENTRAL AND EARLY AFTN
S. TEMPS STARTING TO DROP OFF. WILL GO NEAR GUID.

COOLER AIR MOVING IN STRONGER FRIDAY NIGHT. WILL GO NEAR GUID.

HIGH PRESSURE CONTINUES TO CONTROL INDIANAS WEATHER ON SATURDAY. MO
SUNNY WITH HIGHS NEAR GUID.

.IND...NONE.
HAINES

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 91 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:23 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Carroll

When: August 30, 2:23 PM EST to 2:24 PM EST
Where: Carroll County, Ockley
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 40.483, -86.633

Thunderstorm Wind, Tippecanoe

When: August 30, 3:10 PM EST to 3:12 PM EST
Where: Tippecanoe County, Battle Ground
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.517, -86.833

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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

Every storm in Indiana in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5263897, 5263898.