2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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 Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 7, 3:05 PM EST, 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 305 PM EST FRI SEP 7 2001 TSRA OCCRNG ATTM ALONG IL/IN BRDR AHD OF S/W IN S IL. MESOETA BRINGS THIS S/W NNE THIS EVE AND WKNS IT OVRNGT. MORE TSRA FROM SE IN INTO WC OH ALSO MOVG NNE. MODELS AGREE QUITE WELL ON DVLPG AND MOVG ANOTHER S/W ACRS NW IL TNGT AND INCR NLLJ TO 40 TO 50 KT FRM SW TO NE IL. WL HV SCT WRDNG ACRS CWA TNGT. MODELS CONT TO SLOW DWN PROGRESS OF SFC FNT TO OUR W AS POSITIVELY TILTED MID/UPR TROF DIGS INTO PLAINS. SHORT-TERM MODELS PUSH SFC FNT ONLY AS FAR E AS IN...WEAKENING IT SIGNIFICANTLY...THRU SUN. NO BIG SWINGS IN ZFP POPS FRM PD TO PD WITH AMTS REMAINING WARM AND MOIST AND DIFFICULTY OF ACCURATELY TIMING SHRT WVS. CURRENT AVN RUN SIG DIFF FRM 24 HRS AGO. AT THE SFC IT DVLPS LO PRES OVR SW US SAT EVE AND MOVS IT NE ALONG MS VLY TROF/FNT REACHING IN EARLY MON MRNG...AND THEN KEEPING IT OVR IN/OH THRU TUE NGT. AT 5H TROF STAYS TO OUR W THRU SUN NGT AS IT DAMPENS OUT...AND CUT-OFF LO BREAKS OFF AND MEANDERS ACRS IN TUE AND WASHES OUT OVR OH WED. MRF ALSO BREAKS OFF THIS SML LO BUT ZIPS IT THRU THE LKS AND E OF HERE BY 12Z TUE. AVN BRINGS STRONG VORT THRU MON NGT...MRF DVLPS VORT TOO BUT BRINGS IT THRU ON MON. CURRENT OUTER PDS OF ZFP ARE DRY. WITH GREAT RUN-TO-RUN AND MODEL-TO-MODEL INCONSISTENCIES AM LOATHE TO MAKE DRASTIC CHANGES TO FAR PDS OF FCST...SO WL LEAVE DRY BUT WL CHNG FRM PC TO CLDY/MSTLY CLDY MON-TUE. MOS TEMPS LUK GD TNGT W...THO PERHAPS A BIT COOL E. MAXES TMRW LOOK GD E AND A BIT COOL W. .IWX...NONE. 12
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 30 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:26 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a bank at 100 Easy Shopping Place in Elkhart. A teller at the Bank One drive-through reported receiving a jolt when the building was apparently struck.
Numerous trees down.
Numerous trees down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, September 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5268915, 5268913, 5268914.