1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Jul 28, 3:00 AM EST, 8 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 300 AM EST SAT JUL 28 2001 A WRM FNT ACROSS KY WILL LIFT NORTH INTO OUR CWA THIS AFTN. MODELS SHOW A PROGRESSION OF SHORT WAVES MOVG FROM THE CENTRAL PLAINS TO CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA BY TONIGHT. BIGGEST CONCERNS WILL BE POPS LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS ALSO SOME CONCERN FOR HEAVY RAINFALL SRN ZONES THIS AFTN AND EARLY TONIGHT AS PRECIPTABLE WATER IS AROUND 2 INCHES. CURRENT WX AND MODELS DOES NOT SHOW ANY REAL ORGANIZED CONVECTION AND QPF 94E CHART SHOWS ISOLD EXCESSIVE AMOUNTS SOUTH OF OUR CWA. ETA SHOWS MOST QPF OCCURRING IN OUR AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT AND WILL WORD ZONES ACCORDINGLY. ALL MODELS START TO SHIFT PRECIP SE TNGT AS DRIER AIR AT MID LEVELS MOVES IN FROM NW. NGM IS QUICKER THAN AVN/ETA AND IT MAY BE TOO QUICK. THUS WILL GO A LITTLE CLOSER TO MAV POPS TONIGHT. FINALLY WILL KEEP LOW POPS MAINLY SRN ZONES PER GUIDANCE. IN EXTENDED AVN BUILDS UPR RDG JUST WEST OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER BY 60 TO 72 HOURS AND THEN BUILDS IT EAST ACROSS INDIANA AFTER THAT. IT LOOKS LIKE WE WILL BE IN A HOT DRY PATTERN BY TUE OR WED. FAN MAV TEMPS ARE PRETTY CLOSE AND SEEM REASONABLE. .IND...NONE. HENDRICKSON
INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-281330- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 631 AM EST SAT JUL 28 2001 THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. HOWEVER WE ARE NOT EXPECTING ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS TO BE SEVERE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. JEH
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 102 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:15 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A lightning strike caused damage to equipment at a police station.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, July 2001
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: 5263899.