1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Indianapolis, IN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 24, 2:40 PM EST, 6 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 240 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001 WITH INCOMING SQUALL INLINE AND VARIOUS EQUIPMENT PROBLEMS...AND MODELS CLOSE...DIDNT SPEED TOO MUCH TIME TRYING TO WORK ON GUIDANCE. AS IWX POINTED OUT...MAIN CONCERN...EXCEPT FOR THE SQUALL LINE...THREAT OF HIGH WINDS LATE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. ALL MODELS HAVE GRADIENT MORE RELAXED FOR OUR AREA THAN FARTHER NORTH. SINCE CORE OF SYSTEM ALOFT ALSO PASSING WELL TO NORTH DONT SEE NEED FOR ADVISORY IN THIS AREA. .IND...NONE. KWIATKOWSKI
INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-241900- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1140 AM EST WED OCT 24 2001 ...THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER SAYS THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER IN CENTRAL INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON... THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO ENTER CENTRAL INDIANA FROM THE WEST IN MID AFTERNOON...AND SPREAD TO THE OHIO BORDER IN A FEW HOURS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE TORNADOES. MANY OF THEM COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON. KWIATKOWSKI
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 125 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:47 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A weak tornado touched down briefly in a corn field at the intersection of SR26 and US 41. Spotters chased the storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Indiana, 2001Warnings in Indiana, October 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5270415.