1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 29, 2:26 AM EST, 6 hours 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 226 AM EST SUN JUL 29 2001 WARM FRONT CURRNENTLY EXTENDING FROM SRN IA THRU CNTRL IL/IND TO WV. AREA RADARS SHOWING PRECIP GENERALLY S OF FRONT WITH SOME OVERRUNNING PRECIP OVER CNTRL IND. MUCH CLD COVER TO S IS ASSOCD WITH JET STREAM FROM SRN MO TO PA. UPR DYNAMICS ARE CONTRIBUTING TO CONVECTION INVOF FRONT ALONG OH RIVER. FRONT SHUD CONT TO MOVE TO E TDY AS A S/W ALSO MOVES ACROSS THE RGN. UVV ASSOCD WITH THIS S/W WILL HELP TO KEEP CLDS IN FCST TDY. S/W MOVES E TONIGHT AND SUBSIDENCE AHEAD OF BUILDING RIDGE WILL HELP SKIES BECOME PCLY. STRONG HI PRES WILL BUILD INTO RGN STARTING MON. ETA AND AVN PROG H5 HGHTS TO RISE TO 594 DAM OVR SRN GRT LKS BY 12Z TUE. RIDGE WILL START TO FLATTEN BY LATE WED AS A S/W MOVES THRU NRN PLAINS. HGHTS SHUD STAY HIGH INTO THURS WITH VERY WARM CONDS BEFORE NEXT SYSTEM MOVES IN LATE WEEK. MISFWA AVAIL. .IW+X...NONE. OHARA
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Stalled cars due to high water on SR 13 north of Swayzee and at intersection of SR 26.
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: 5253298.