Name: Flash Flood in Indiana, July 29, 2001
Start: 2001-07-29T03:30
End: 2001-07-29T04:00
Location: Indiana

Where it happened

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The toll

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

The episode as NWS IND wrote it up.

Heavy rain caused a culvert to wash out.

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 Jul 29, 3:15 AM EST, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 3:15 AM EST, 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
315 AM EST SUN JUL 29 2001

SATELLITE SHOWS CLOUD TOPS COOLING AS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
SPREAD E INTO OUR CENTRAL AND SRN CWA. IT APPREAS THAT MOST OF THIS
WILL TRACK SOUTH OF A CRAWFORDVILLE TO WINCHESTER LINE EARLY THIS
MORNING.  PRECITABLE WATER STILL IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES OVER OUR SRN
CWA SO HEAVY RAINFALL S HALF COULD STILL BE A PROBLEM NEXT FEW HOURS.
OVER OUR NRN CWA DENSE FOG WILL BE THE BIGGEST PROBLEM AS DRIER AIR
AT MID LEVELS BEGIN TO MOVE IN.

SATELLITE SHOWS A S/W FROM NE INDIANA TO SRN MO AT 07Z AND MODELS
TRACK THIS TO SRN OHIO AND KY BY 18Z. ETA ALSO SHOWS GOOD SUBSIDENSE
OVER OUR AREA BY 18Z.  MODELS KEEP QUITE A BIT OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE
ACROSS OUR CWA TODAY. WILL GO WITH PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES MOST AREAS
LATER THIS AFTERNOON.

H5 HEIGHTS RISE SIGNIFIGANTLY OVER OUR AREA MONDAY AS UPR RDG OVR
PLAINS BUILDS E TOWARDS INDIANA. AVN AND MRF BEGIN TO FLATTEN UPR
RIDGE THURSDAY AS A WEAK CD FNT MOVS OUR WAY. WILL ADD A CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS ALL CWA THURSDAY. FOR THE MOST PART FWC TEMPS SEEMS
REASONABLE.

.IND...NONE.
HENDRICKSON

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 28, 9:42 PM EST, 5 hours 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
942 PM EST SAT JUL 28 2001

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0745 PM    5 SW GREENCASTLE          IN   WIND DAMAGE
07/28/01   PUTNAM                         TREES DOWN EVENT
                                          DURATION 5 MINUTES.
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

The radar

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Vigo

When: July 29, 3:30 AM EST to 4:00 AM EST
Where: Vigo County, 3 mi S of Terre Haute
Reported by: DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
Coordinates: 39.431, -87.390 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Flash Flood: Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Indiana in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5252941.