1 lightning, 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 21, 2:08 PM EST, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 208 PM EST SAT JUL 21 2001 ONGOING CONVECTION DUE TO SHORTWAVE IN GRT LKS WL SLOWLY EXIT THE AREA TONIGHT. MAIN FCST PROB REMAINS POPS THOUGH AS ADDITIONAL SHORTWAVES AND THEN A FRONT TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA... RUC HAD GOOD HANDLE ON SHORTWAVE AND WL USE IT FOR FIRST 6 HOURS. VORT LOBE MOVING INTO DIFFLUENT FLOW AND AT 18Z WAS CENTERED OVER SW LWR MI. AS THE ENERGY FROM THIS SYS PULLS TO THE SE AND THE LAKE BREEZE SETTLES DOWN AFTER SUNSET...PRECIP CHCS SHUD DEC. NVA MVS IN BEHIND FURTHER SUPPORTING DEC IN POPS TONIGHT. AS THE RIDGE BREAKS DOWN A SERIES OF WEAK SHORTWAVES WILL MOVE THROUGHT THE WESTERLIES. THE NEXT DISCERNABLE ONE OF CONCERN IS TOMORROW NIGHT. ETA TAKES THE ENERGY FURTHER TO THE NORTH THAN AVN. WITH THE H5 FLOW WNW...PREFER THE AVN SOLN HERE. MODEL CAPES 2500 J/KG WITH LI -7 SO WL CONTINUE WITH SCT POPS SUN AFTN. EVEN THO THE ETA PULLS THE VORT TO THE NORTH IT BRINGS IN MORE SIG MEAN RH JUST TO THE WEST. LATE SUN NIGHT THE MODELS DIFF EVEN MORE WITH THE ETA INDICATING A S/W OVR MN/IA WITH NO SIG DYNAMICS OVR NRN IN... WHILE THE AVN SHOWS WEAK PVA OVR NRN IN AND ANOTHER S/W FURTHER WEST THAN THE ETA. WITH CONTINUED INSTABILITY AND POTENTIAL BOUNDARIES IN THE AREA WILL KEEP CHC POPS ON SUN NIGHT AS WELL. ON TO F54 (MON) THE AVN MVS A COMPLEX ACRS WI LEAVING FA IN SUBSIDENCE UNTIL F66 (MON NIGHT) WHEN YET ANOTHER S/W BRINGS POTENTIAL FOR ANOTHER MCS. WL KEEP CHC POPS ON MON NIGHT. ON TUE AS FRNT SAGS SOUTH IT WL TAKE PRECIP CHCS WITH IT IN THE NRN FA ANYWAY. POLAR LOW IN HUDSON BAY STILL EXPECTED TO DEEPEN AND ALLOW H5 WINDS TO INCREASE AND HEIGHTS TO FALL BY WED AM. AVN HINTS AT TWO MORE S/W...ONE IN SRN IA AND THE NEXT IN WRN KS RIPPLE THROUGH THE FLOW. THESE S/W SKIRT THE SRN FA AND SO WL KEEP CHC POPS THERE ON WED AND THUR. TEMPS TO BEGIN COOL DOWN MID WEEK AS FRNT MVS SOUTH OF FA. WL GO DRY ON SAT AS NW FLOW IN DRIER CONDS PREVAILS. TEMPS A LITTLE TRICKY TONIGHT GIVEN AREAS OF RAIN-COOLED AIR. EXPECT SOME RETURN AS S/W EXITS AND SUN BREAKS OUT FOR A PD THIS AFTN. SO WL CUT THE NRN ZONES JUST A FEW. WL BE HOT AND HUMID AS PER BOTH MAV AND FWC TOMORROW. REST OF GUIDANCE TEMPS CLOSELY FOLLOWED. .IWX...NONE. ADOLPHSON
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 109 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:00 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Man went outside to check possible lightning damage to barn. While standing outside of barn was hitby lightning and died shortly after at Hillsdale Community Health Center.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning, Hillsdale | 2001-07-21 | 51 | Male | Outside/Open Areas | 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: 5253287.