Name: Hail in Indiana, June 11, 2001
Start: 2001-06-11T18:19
End: 2001-06-11T18:39
Location: Indiana

Where it happened

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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 happened

The episode as NWS IND wrote it up.

Trained spotter and amateur radio operator reported prolonged period of large hail.

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 Jun 11, 2:40 PM EST, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 2:40 PM EST, 3 hours 39 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
240 AM EST MON JUN 11 2001

PROBLEM OF DAY WHETHER MIGHTY MCC NOW OVER MN WILL BRUSH CWA LATE
TONIGHT OR TUESDAY.

MOST MODEL FIELDS AGREE FOR NEXT SEVERAL DAYS...BUT ETA BRINGS A LOT
MORE MOISTURE FROM THE REMNANTS OF THE MCC BY LATE TONIGHT. THIS
REFLECTED IN THE FWC BUT NOT THE MAV POPS.

DO NOT TRUST AVN A LOT THIS TIME AROUND. LATEST PROFILERS SHOW WE
ARE STILL ON ERN SIDE OF HIGH ALOFT...AND ALL MODELS HAVE THICKNESS
PATTERNS THAT COULD EVENTUALLY TURN MCC VERY HARD TO SOUTH. INCRSG
HAZE OVER CWA SUGGESTS WE ARE STARTING TO CAP WHICH MAY HELP PROTECT
WRN COUNTIES...BUT CANT DENY CHC POPS FROM FWC LOOK OK FOR ERN
COUNTIES.

ONCE WE GET PAST THE MCC...ALL MODELS  HAVE AREA HAZY...HOT...AND
HUMID UNTIL LATE IN WEEK. ALSO PROBABLY DRY AS CAP DEVELOPS ALOFT AS
SUBSIDENCE UNDER HIGH CONTINUES. GUIDANCE HAS BEEN A LITTLE SPEEDY
BRINING UP TEMPS OVER LAST FEW DAYS. WITH VERY HUMID CONDITIONS
CONTINUING TEMPS NOT LIKELY TO REALLY SOAR. WILL SCALE BACK GUIDANCE
TEMPS ON HIGHS. MINS LOOK OK BASED ON HISTORY OF THIS AIRMASS.

.IND...NONE.
KWIATKOWSKI

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 11, 3:47 PM EST, 2 hours 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
347 PM EST MON JUN 11 2001

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

0335 PM    4 NE CLOVERDALE           IN   1 INCH HAIL
06/11/01   PUTNAM                         REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.  NEAR I 70.

The radar

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Madison

When: June 11, 6:19 PM EST to 6:32 PM EST
Where: Madison County, 4 mi N of Alexandria
Measured: 1.5 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 40.317, -85.667

Hail, Madison

When: June 11, 6:37 PM EST to 6:39 PM EST
Where: Madison County, 3 mi N of Alexandria
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 40.317, -85.667

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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, June 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: 5248272, 5248273.