1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 21, 2:15 PM EST, 4 hours 54 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 215 PM EST THU JUN 21 2001 LOW PRESSURE HAS MOVED BETWEEN LAF AND FWA WITH COLD FRONT EXTNDG S. A NARROW AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED JUST AHEAD OF THE FRONT WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS BEHIND IT. BOTH ETA AND NGM GIVE HI POPS FOR 00Z THEN QUICKLY DROP. CNTRL INDIANA GOING BETWEEN TWO AREAS. WILL GO FOR SCT SHWRS ENDG EARLY EVE. WILL GO PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS E THIS EVE. WITH ONLY LIGHT RAIN WILL CANCEL THE FFW IN THE SW. IN THE SE THE TSTMS SHOULD MOV OUT BY FCST TIME. WILL CANCEL THE WATCH IN THE SE PART OF CWA. GUID TEMPS LOOK OK. CROSS SECTIONS SHOW MUCH DRIER AIR MOVG INTO INDIANA EXCEPT LOWEST LEVELS. MODELS DO HAVE SOME WEAK VORT MOVG THROUGH. WILL GO PRTLY SUNNY. WITH NW FLOW WILL DROP TEMPS A LTL. THIS WILL PUT THEM IN LINE WITH OBSRVD CONDITIONS W AND NW. SKIES SHOULD CLEAR FRI NGT. DEW PTS SHOULD DROP OFF. GUID IS USUALLY A LITTLE TO WARM SECOND NGT AFTR FROPA. MO SUNNY ON SAT. NEAR GUID TEMPS. .IND...NONE. HAINES
INZ064-065-071-072-212050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 323 PM EST THU JUN 21 2001 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE COLD FRONT GENERATING SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST OF INDIANA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WAS MOVING THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER OUT OF SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA. SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE IN THE AREA THROUGH THE EVENING BUT THESE WILL REMAIN BELOW SEVERE WEATHER LIMITS. DRIER AIR WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE IN ENDING THE RAIN. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. HAINES
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 98 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:11 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A weak tornado briefly touched down and caused roof and wall damage to a single house.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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