Flood in Indiana, May 16, 2001

Name: Flood in Indiana, May 16, 2001
Start: 2001-05-16T18:20
End: 2001-05-16T19:30
Location: Indiana

May 16, 2001 · NWS IND · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Street flooding reported.

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.

Street flooding reported.

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 May 16, 2:20 PM EST, 4 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 2:20 PM EST, 4 hours before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
220 PM EST WED MAY 16 2001

FCST CHALLENGE WL BE TRW CHCS THROUGH THE PD AS CD FNT SETTLES INTO
CWA OVRNGT AND MEANDERS BACK AND FORTH INTO FRI.

SATELLITE AND RADAR SHOW REMAINING MCS OVER STATE BEGINNING TO
WEAKEN. ILLINOIS AIR STILL QUITE UNSTABLE AHEAD OF CDFNT. CU
HAVE BEEN DVLPG ECNTRL IL AND ANOTHER BAND ACRS SRN IL...BOTH WHICH
SHOULD GROW TO SCT TSHRA AND PERHAPS MORE AS ETA SUGGESTS.

WITH FRONTAL BOUNDARY OVER SOME PART OF CWA INTO FRI AND SEVERAL
SHORT WAVES TO HELP FAVOR CONVECTION...NEXT FEW DAYS ARE BEST SHOT
IN AWHILE FOR PCPN OVER AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN DRY FOR SO LONG.
PROBLEM IS TIMING OF EACH PCPN WAVE. WILL BE VERY GENERIC AT THIS
POINT FOR TIMING BUT GO FOR HIGHER POPS THAN PREVIOUS FCSTS.

HAVE LEANED TO COOLER AVN TEMPS AS EXPECTING CLOUDIER PCPN PERIODS
THAN FWC SUGGESTS. ALSO HAVE LEANED HIGHER INTO POPS.

.IND...NONE.
TUCEK

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 16, 5:41 PM EST, 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
541 PM EST WED MAY 16 2001

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

0522 PM    BATTLE GROUND             IN   .88 INCH HAIL
05/16/01   TIPPECANOE                     REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, May 16, 5:44 PM EST, 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
544 PM EST WED MAY 16 2001

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

0538 PM    6 N ROCKVILLE             IN   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/16/01   PARKE

Local storm report, May 16, 6:11 PM EST, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
611 PM EST WED MAY 16 2001

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

0605 PM    4 E BATTLE GROUND         IN   1 INCH HAIL
05/16/01   TIPPECANOE                     REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT. HAIL
                                          WIDESPREAD FROM BATTLE
                                          GROUND TO DAYTON EAST
                                          OF I 65.

Local storm report, May 16, 6:12 PM EST, 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
612 PM EST WED MAY 16 2001

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

0605 PM    LAFAYETTE                 IN   1 INCH HAIL
05/16/01   TIPPECANOE                     REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, May 16, 6:16 PM EST, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
616 PM EST WED MAY 16 2001

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

0550 PM    BRAZIL                    IN   WIND DAMAGE
05/16/01   CLAY                           REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR. TEN INCH
                                          DIAMETER LIVE TREE DxOWN
                                          AND NUMEROUS SMALL TREES.

Local storm report, May 16, 6:20 PM EST, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
620 PM EST WED MAY 16 2001

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

0604 PM    15 NE LAFAYETTE           IN   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/16/01   TIPPECANOE                     REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

The radar

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Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Parke

When: May 16, 6:20 PM EST to 7:30 PM EST
Where: Parke County, Rosedale
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 39.774, -87.206 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Flood: Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

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

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Indiana in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Indiana, May 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: 5241365.