2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 24, 2:30 PM EST, 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
230 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001
SQUALL LINE APPROACHING WRN CWA AND WILL MOVE ACROSS ENTIRE CWA
EARLY TNGT. MUCH COLDER BEHIND FRONT WITH SFC LOW CRANKING UP
OVER ERN LAKES THURSDAY INTO FRI. SFC GRAD IN ALL MDLS AND MOS
SUPPORT HIGH WIND WARNING NRN 2/3 CWA LATER TNT AND THURSDAY WITH
ADVISORY CRITERIA SOUTH. AFTER STORMS TNGT COLD AIR POURS
ACROSS LAKES BUT WITH SUCH STRONG WIND FIELDS TIME OVER LAKE WATERS
WILL BE DIMINISHED AND SHOULD HELP TO KEEP ACTIVITY FROM GETTING
OUT OF HAND. WILL CONTINUE CLDS...WINDS AND SHWRS INTO SAT AND THEN
BEGIN SLOW WARMUP INTO NEXT WEEK. BLEND OF MOS TMPS TOWARD
COOLER MAVS.
.IWX...HIGH WIND WARNING LATE TNGT AND THURSDAY NRN 2/3 CWA
WIND ADVISORY LATE TNGT AND THURSDAY SRN 1/3 CWA
RESINZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-250000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1111 AM EST WED OCT 24 2001 ...THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING ACROSS NORTHERN INDIANA...NORTHWEST OHIO AND EXTREME SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED MUCH OF THE OHIO VALLEY AND THE SOUTHERN GREAT LAKES REGION UNDER A HIGH RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. A WARM...MOIST... UNSTABLE AIR MASS IS CURRENTLY IN PLACE OVER THE REGION. A COLD FRONT NEAR THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER THIS AFTERNOON WILL MOVE RAPIDLY THROUGH THE REGION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM ALONG AND AHEAD OF THIS FRONT. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL HELP THE THUNDERSTORMS INTENSIFY. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS...AND WIND FIELDS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE FORMATION OF ISOLATED TORNADOES. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL END BY MIDNIGHT WHEN THE COLD FRONT MOVES EAST OF THE REGION. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL MOST LIKELY BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL MEDIA...FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ON THIS VERY SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. RES
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 100 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:17 UTC.
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado touched down on the north side of Wanatah in Laporte county and moved northeast into St Joseph county 4 miles east of Rolling Prairie. One woman was killed 4 miles east of Laporte in her mobile home where F2 damage occurred. Most damage was F1 with an average path width of 600 yards.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado, La Porte | 2001-10-24 | 57 | Female | Mobile/Trailer Home | Direct |
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5271991, 5271992.