Tornado, St. Joseph
- When
- October 24, 4:05 PM EST to 4:09 PM EST
- Where
- St. Joseph County, 4 mi NW of Osceola
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2.4 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $300,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 41.700, -86.117
Tornadoes in Indiana, October 24, 2001
2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $350,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 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 Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 24, 2:30 PM EST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 24, 2:30 PM EST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
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
RESIn the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 24, 11:11 AM EST, 4 hours 54 minutes before
INZ003>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
Local storm report, Oct 24, 3:31 PM EST, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
331 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0320 PM LA PORTE IN .75 INCH HAIL
10/24/01 LAPORTELocal storm report, Oct 24, 3:37 PM EST, 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
337 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0330 PM MONTICELLO IN WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01 WHITE TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Oct 24, 3:57 PM EST, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
357 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0343 PM GROVERTOWN IN 70 MPH TSTM GUST
10/24/01 STARKE REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR.Local storm report, Oct 24, 4:00 PM EST, 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
400 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0350 PM THORNHOPE IN WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01 PULASKI TREES DOEN.
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KDENWWUS53 KIWX 242100
SVSFWA
INZ003-242115-
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
400 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001
...TORNADO WARNING FOR LA PORTE COUNTY IN INDIANA HAS EXPIRED...
AT 355 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THAT THE TORNADO HAD MOVED NORTHEAST INTO ST. JOSEPH COUNTY INDIANA.
THUS THE TORNADO WARNING FOR LAPORTE COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELED.
TORNADO REPORTS FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT WERE RECEIVED FROM WANATAH AND
NEAR LAPORTE.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST SEVERE
WEATHER INFORMATION.
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY
TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA.Local storm report, Oct 24, 4:03 PM EST, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
403 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0350 PM LA PORTE IN TORNADO
10/24/01 LAPORTE CAMPER TURNED OVER.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0355 PM CRUMSTOWN IN TORNADO
10/24/01 ST.JOSEPH HOME DESTROYED.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 51 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:05 UTC.
Event by event
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Elkhart
- When
- October 24, 4:09 PM EST to 4:13 PM EST
- Where
- Elkhart County, 3 mi WNW of (Ekm)elkhart Muni Ar
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 41.733, -86.050
Tornado touched down near intersection of Douglas and Bittersweet Roads in eastern St Joseph county and skipped northeast into extreme northwest Elkhart county where it crossed the Indiana Toll Road before lifting. Damage included a Toll Road administration building and 2 storage facilities. 9 cars were also damaged in the parking lot.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Indiana, October 24, 2001
- Tornadoes in Indiana, October 24, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Michigan, October 24, 2001
- Tornadoes in Ohio, October 24, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Illinois, October 24, 2001
- Tornadoes in Indiana, October 24, 2001
- Tornadoes in Indiana, October 24, 2001
- Tornadoes in Tennessee, October 24, 2001
- Tornadoes in Indiana, October 24, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, October 24, 2001
- Tornadoes in Michigan, October 24, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Michigan, October 24, 2001
More
Every storm in Indiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Indiana, 2001Warnings in Indiana, October 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: 5270584, 5270585.