1 rip current, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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 Jul 1, 3:10 PM EST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 310 PM EST SUN JUL 1 2001 MAIN FCST PROBS ARE RECORD LOW TEMPS TONIGHT AND PCPN CHCS LATE PD3/PD4. OMEGA BLOCKED UL PATTERN TO CONT NEXT 60 HRS WITH ANOTHER POLAR VORTEX ROTATING INTO ERN CAN/US TROF WITH STNRY HIGH ACRS 4 CORNERS. MODELS SIMILAR IN OVERALL LARGE SCALE DETAILS. FOR TONIGHT SIG AMS EXCHANGE WITH DPS INTO 30S ALREADY ACRS KGRR CWA. ETA 925MB TEMPS COOL TO 7-8C BY 12Z WITH WINDS DIMINISHING TO NEAR CALM BY SUNSET AND CLEAR SKIES PREFER TO SIDE WITH OR A FEW BLO FLP TEMPS INTO LWR TO MID 40S. WL MENTION RECORDS WITH 40 TO 45 NORTH AND MID 40S SRN TIER. SLIGHTLY BLO NGM MOS TEMPS TONIGHT OTHERWISE FAIRLY CLOSE RMNDR PDS. MONTHLY RECORDS ARE ALSO IN JEOPARDY WITH 44 IN SBN/FWA. PSBL MCS FORMING ACRS MN LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON MOVING ACRS WI WITH LL NOCTURNAL JET TO 45 KTS INTENSIFYING. 1000-850 MB LYR MFLUX CONV AND MIDLVL LAPSE RATES TO 6.5 C/KM ACRS NRN TIER. SHOWALTER TO M2-M3 AND EQUIV POT TEMP/LYR THICKNESS SUGGEST DYING MCS TO CRASH ACRS NRN TIER ZNS BY DAYBREAK TUE. WL ADD SMALL CHC POPS LATE. ON TUESDAY MODIFIED ETA SNDGS SUPPORT CAPES TO 2100 J/KG WITH h50 KT MID LVL WLY JET WL GO WITH HIGH CHC SCT WORDING POPS. NO CHNGS TO HOLIDAY EXTENDED...DY 7 DRY FOR NOW IN AGREEMENT WITH HPC DISC. MISFWA AVBL. .IWX...NONE. PBM
INZ013-015-017-018-020-022>027-032>034-OHZ002-004-005-015-016-024- 025-012100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1221 PM EST SUN JUL 1 2001 A COLD FRONT HAS PUSHED THROUGH NORTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHERN INDIANA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. DRIER AND MORE STABLE AIR BEHIND THE FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO FILTER INTO THE AREA. THIS CHANGE IN AIR MASS HAS ENDED THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
13 year old girl drowned at Warren Dunes State Park. Police and park rangers believe girlwas caught in rip current near shore.
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 | 2001-07-01 | 13 | Female | 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, July 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: 5253211.