Thunderstorm Wind, Newton
- When
- July 22, 6:10 PM CST
- Where
- Newton County, Enos
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.017, -87.450
Trees and power lines blown down.
Damaging Winds in Indiana, July 22, 2001
2 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
- 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 Chicago, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 22, 1:30 PM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 1:30 PM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
230 PM CDT SUN JUL 22 2001
NUMEROUS HI'S AROUND 100 NOW AND TEMPS TNGT PROGGED IN THE MIDDLE OR
UPPER 70S SHOULD MAINTAIN HEAT HEADLINES THRU TONIGHT. WLL LET MID
SHIFT DECIDE IF IT WARRANTS CONTINUATION ON MONDAY. WITH TEMPS
PROGGED IN LOWER OR MIDDLE 90S...APPEARS NERN IL WARNING PROBABLY
WILL CONTINUE TIL MONDAY NIGHT WHEN COLD FRONT DROPS IN AND LOWERS
DEWPOINTS.
GOOD CAPES AND STEERING WINDS TONIGHT SUGGEST STORMS THAT ARE
POPPING UP HERE AND THERE SHOULD CONTINUE WELL INTO SUNSET AND WILL
LIKELY PRODUCE MORE DOWNBURST OUTFLOWS. OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM S
CENTRAL WI BACK THRU JO DAVIESS CUD SLIPPING EAST ACROSS NRN CENTRAL
TO NERN IL LATE THIS AFTN INTO THIS EVENING. SO POPS WILL PROBABLY
GO OUT AS CATEGORICALLY SCT OR ISOLATED TSTMS THIS EVENING.
CONTINUATION PAST MIDNIGHT IS QUESTIONABLE.
COLD FNT APPROACHING FROM THE NORTHWEST MONDAY ALONG WITH MORE HEAT
GENERATED TSTMS WORTH ANOTHER POP MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT AS FNT.
THIS SHUD TERMINATE NEED FOR ADVISORIES/WRNGS AND USHER IN DRIER
CONDITIONS FOR TUESDAY. GOOD COLD AND DRY AIR NOT FILTERING DOWN
UNTIL WEDNESDAY.
LOOKING COOLER AND DRIER FOR THE REST OF THE WORK WEEK...BUT RETURN
SOUTH FLOW SHOULD RETURN CHC OF TSTMS ON SATURDAY.
TEMPS CRITICAL FOR PCPN AND CLOUD COVER BUT HAVE BEEN DOING FAIRLY
WELL LAST FEW DAYS AND WILL FOLLOW GUIDANCE VALUES CLOSELYg.
.CHI...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING FOR CHICAGO AREA
EXCESSIVE HEAT ADV FOR REST OF CWA
BRUMERIn the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 22, 3:11 PM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
411 PM CDT SUN JUL 22 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0345 PM RICHMOND IL WIND DAMAGE
07/22/01 MCHENRY POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0350 PM MC HENRY IL WIND DAMAGE
07/22/01 MCHENRY TREES BLOWN DOWN.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
lLocal storm report, Jul 22, 3:22 PM CST, 2 hours 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
422 PM CDT SUN JUL 22 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0400 PM BARRINGTON IL WIND DAMAGE
07/22/01 COOK TREES BLOWN DOWN.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Jul 22, 3:49 PM CST, 2 hours 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
449 PM CDT SUN JUL 22 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0420 PM WAUCONDA IL WIND DAMAGE
07/22/01 LAKE TREES BLOWN DOWN.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Jul 22, 3:50 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
450 PM CDT SUN JUL 22 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM GRAYSLAKE IL WIND DAMAGE
07/22/01 LAKE TREES BLOWN DOWN.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
yLocal storm report, Jul 22, 4:37 PM CST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
537 PM CDT SUN JUL 22 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0445 PM ELK GROVE VLG IL WIND DAMAGE
07/22/01 COOK TREES BLOWN DOWN .
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0445 PM WINNETKA IL 1 INCH HAIL
07/22/01 COOK REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0445 PM ELMHURST IL WIND DAMAGE
07/22/01 DUPAGE TREES DOWN...DAMAGE TO
CAR. REPORTED BY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
0445 PM LOMBARD IL WIND DAMAGE
07/22/01 DUPAGE TWO 9" DIAMETER TREES
SNAPPED AT ABOUT 10
FEET OFF THE GROUND.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0510 PM CHICAGO IL 60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/22/01 COOK RECORDED WIND GUST AT
HARRISON-DEVER CRIBLocal storm report, Jul 22, 4:50 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
550 PM CDT SUN JUL 22 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0520 PM YORKVILLE IL WIND DAMAGE
07/22/01 KENDALL POWERLINES BLOWN DOWN .
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0525 PM AURORA IL WIND DAMAGE
07/22/01 KANE LARGE TREE BRANCHES
DOWN. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:10 UTC.
Event by event
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Jasper
- When
- July 22, 6:40 PM CST
- Where
- Jasper County, 3 mi S of Rensselaer
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.883, -87.150
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 22, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, July 22, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 22, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 22, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, July 22, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 22, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 22, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 22, 2001
- Flash Flood in Indiana, July 22, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, July 22, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 22, 2001
More
Every storm in Indiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, July 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: 5258226, 5258227.