Damaging Winds in Indiana, May 6, 2001

Name: Damaging Winds in Indiana, May 6, 2001
Start: 2001-05-06T17:00
End: 2001-05-06T18:54
Location: Indiana

May 6, 2001 · NWS IND · 3 events in 2 counties and zones

A few clusters of severe thunderstorms developed along a warm front producing isolated wind damage with trees down.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.

Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
Other

Open the live radar over this ground

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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.

A few clusters of severe thunderstorms developed along a warm front producing isolated wind damage with trees down.

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 6, 2:45 PM EST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 2:45 PM EST, 2 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
245 PM EST SUN MAY 6 2001

FCST PRBLMS INCLUDE CHANCES AND TIMING OF RAIN.

IN THE SHORT TERM SCT TSRA DEVELOPING ALONG AND JUST BEHIND WMFNT
WHICH AT 19Z IS ALONG IND/IWX CWA BORDERS.  LAPS DATA INDICATES LIS
OF -1 TO -4 BEHIND THIS FNT AND NO CAPPING SO TSRA COULD CONTINUE TO
DEVELOP THIS EVENING AND WILL KEEP IT IN THE FCST FOR TONIGHT.

STRONG H5 RIDGE BEGINS TO MOVE EAST THRU 48 HRS AS LOW OVR PLAINS
STATES DIGS DEEPER AND BECOMES NEGATIVELY TILTED.  THE SFC FNT
ASSOCIATED WITH THIS LOW WILL BRING THE MOST DECENT CHANCE OF RAIN
WE HAVE HAD IN THE LAST SEVERAL WEEKS.  MODELS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT
WITH STRONG CDFNT PASSING SOMETIME TOMORROW AFTERNOON.  WITH
ADEQUATE MOISTURE IN PLACE AHEAD OF THE FNT CAN EXPECT SOME SHOWERS
AND TSRA WILL DEVELOP OUT AHEAD OF THE FRONT.

CDFNT EXITS THE FA BY EARLY TUESDAY MORNING AND H5 TROF QUICKLY
FOLLOWS LATER IN THE MORNING ON TUES SO WILL KEEP THE CURRENT CHANCE
IN.

SEE NO REASON TO STRAY MUCH FROM GUIDANCE TEMPS.

.IND...NONE.
SALLY

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Jackson

When: May 6, 5:00 PM EST to 5:02 PM EST
Where: Jackson County, Brownstown
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 38.883, -86.033

Thunderstorm Wind, Johnson

When: May 6, 6:40 PM EST to 6:42 PM EST
Where: Johnson County, Franklin
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 39.483, -86.050

Thunderstorm Wind, Johnson

When: May 6, 6:52 PM EST to 6:54 PM EST
Where: Johnson County, Greenwood
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 39.617, -86.117

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

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: 5241272, 5241271, 5241270.