Indiana, 2001Tornado in Indiana, July 10, 2001
July 10, 2001 · NWS LOT · 1 event in 1 county or zone
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- 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 Jul 10, 1:30 PM CST, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 1:30 PM CST, 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
230 PM CDT MON JUL 10 2001
500 MB NORTHWEST WIND FLOW IS FORECASTED TO CONTINUE OVER THE
FORECAST AREA OF NORTHEAST ILLINOIS AND NORTHWEST INDIANA THROUGH
THURSDAY. USED THE NGM AND ETA MODELS. THE SURFACE BOUNDARY IN
CENTRAL ILLINOIS IS SLOWLY MOVING SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON. A DEWPOINT
GRADIENT JUST SOUTH OF JOLIET AND THE LAKE BREEZE WAS PRODUCING SOME
TOWERING CUMULUS THIS AFTERNOON IN THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN COUNTIES
OF OUR FORECAST AREA. IF SHOWERS DEVELOP THEY WOULD BE ISOLATED.
A SECOND FRONT IN LAKE SUPERIOR AND NORTHERN MINNESOTA WILL PUSH
SOUTH. USING THE NGM TIMING THIS FRONT WILL SLOWLY BRING COOLER AIR
INTO OUR FORECAST REGION THROUGH THURSDAY. ALL MOS POPS ARE LOW AND
AT BEST WOULD HAVE SCATTERED TO ISOLATED SHOWERS. WILL KEEP RAIN
OUT. THE FORECAST VERTICAL STRUCTURE OF THE ATMOSPHERE FOR TUESDAY
SHOW LOW CAPE AND -2 TO -3 LIFTED INDICES. THE BEST CHANCE OF
INSTABILITY LOOKS TO BE TUESDAY AFTERNOON. OTHERWISE...INVERSIONS
KEEP THE AIR STABLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
.CHI...NONE.
WHW
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 11:03 AM CST, 3 hours 2 minutes before
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SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
1200 PM CDT/EST TUE JUL 10 2001
FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST ILLINOIS AND NORTHWEST INDIANA...
NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.
Tornado, Jasper
- When
- July 10, 2:05 PM CST to 2:09 PM CST
- Where
- Jasper County, 9 mi ENE of Rensselaer
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 2.5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.983, -86.983
A tornado touched down near County Road 400E and 200S destroying a garage and damaging the corner of a roof of a barn. The tornado continued through corn and bean fields and exited Jasper County 12 miles east of Rensselaer and moved into Pulaski County. (See Storm Data for Indiana, Northeast)
- 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, July 10, 20011 death · 1.5 in hail · 13 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Colorado, July 10, 2001$3.0 million · 1.75 in hail · 7 events
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, July 10, 2001$2.5 million · 0.75 in hail · 2 events
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Wyoming, July 10, 2001F2 · 2 events
- Flash Flood and Hail in West Virginia, July 10 to 11, 2001$518,000 · 1 in hail · 9 events
- Flash Flood in Wyoming, July 10, 2001$400,000 · 1 event
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, July 10 to 11, 2001$400,000 · 1 event
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, July 10 to 11, 20013 injured · $53,000 · 1.75 in hail · 9 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, July 10, 2001$97,000 · 0.75 in hail · 4 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 10, 2001$79,000 · 1.25 in hail · 7 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 10, 2001$66,000 · 0.88 in hail · 4 events
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Pennsylvania, July 10, 2001$60,000 · 52 kt wind · 4 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: 5258207.