1 rip current, 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 Aug 17, 2:23 AM EST, 7 hours 37 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 223 AM EST FRI AUG 17 2001 ...FORECAST CHALLENGE WILL BE CLOUDS AND TEMPERATURES TODAY AND THE CHANCE OF RAIN FOR SATURDAY... LATEST SURFACE MAP SHOWS THAT THE LOW WHICH BROUGHT RAIN TO THE AREA HAD MOVED TO UPPER MICHIGAN. SKIES CLEARED FROM THE SOUTHWEST IN THE WAKE OF THE LOW AND NOW ARE MOSTLY CLEAR OVER MUCH OF THE AREA. WEAK HIGH PRESSURE OVER IOWA/MISSOURI IS MOVING INTO THE AREA FROM THE SOUTHWEST AHEAD OF A SHORT WAVE RIDGE LOCATED OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. THE NEXT SYSTEM PRESENTLY LOCATED OVER NORTHERN MANITOBA IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON. ALL MODELS HANDLE THE SYSTEM SIMILARLY THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING THEN THEY BEGIN TO DIVERGE IN DEVELOPING THE SURFACE LOW BY SATURDAY NIGHT. THE NGM PUTS THE SURFACE LOW OVER SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...WELL SOUTH OF THE ETA AND AVN. AVN HAS HANDLED THE LAST SYSTEM WELL SO WILL LEAN TOWARD IT IN MAKING THE FORECAST. SUBSIDENCE WILL CONTINUE TO OVERSPREAD THE AREA TODAY. THIS WILL LIMIT CLOUD FORMATION THIS AFTERNOON. CU RULES TREND TOWARD A MOSTLY SUNNY DAY TODAY AND MOSTLY CLEAR TONIGHT. THE NEXT SYSTEM WILL SPREAD PRECIPITATION INTO THE AREA BEGINNING SATURDAY AFTERNOON WEST SPREADING TO THE EAST BY SATURDAY EVENING. WILL GO WITH A BLEND OF FWC/FAN/MAV TEMPERATURE GUIDANCE AND WILL STICK CLOSE TO FWC/MAV PRECIPITATION GUIDANCE. THERE WILL BE SOME INSTABILITY IN THE ATMOSPHERE SATURDAY BUT THE RETURN FROM THE GULF WILL BE LIMITED... HOWEVER WITH SOME SUN EXPECTED...WILL KEEP THE CHANCE OF THUNDER IN THE FORECAST FOR SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. RAIN SHOULD BE OUT OF THE AREA ON SUNDAY. LOOKING INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...FLOW TRIES TO GO ZONAL...WHICH WILL LET SOME WARM AIR RETURN TO THE REGION. BEFORE ITS ARRIVAL... THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION WITH A WARM FRONT ON TUESDAY WHICH THE EXTENDED FORECAST CONTAINS...THUS IT WILL REMAIN UNCHANGED. .IWX...NONE. LAMBERTY
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A 17-year old male drowned while swimming in Lake Michigan at Warren Dunes State Park. Officials at the scene said that wave heights were up to six feet. A rip current apparently pulled him underwater.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Berrien | 2001-08-17 | 17 | Male | In Water | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Michigan in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Michigan, August 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: 5264209.