1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. 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 Oct 24, 2:30 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
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
RESPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
410 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0404 PM (SBN)MICHIANA ARPT SO BEN IN 89 MPH TSTM GUST
10/24/01 ST.JOSEPH ASOS REPORT.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
421 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0417 PM 2 W OSCEOLA IN ESTIMATED 60 MPH TSTM GUST
10/24/01 ST.JOSEPH REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER. TREES AND
TELEPHONE POLES DOWN.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
430 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0423 PM 3 S OSCEOLA IN WIND DAMAGE. TREES DOWN.
10/24/01 ST.JOSEPH REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
ELKHART OPERATOR.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
433 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0400 PM BUCHANON MI WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01 BERRIEN TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0400 PM NILES MI WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01 BERRIEN TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
437 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0435 PM PARK SHR RESORT MI WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01 CASS *** 1 INJ ***
TREE FELL DOWN ONTO CAR AT
DIAMOND LAKE. REPORTED
BY HAM RADIO OPERATOR.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
440 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0410 PM CASSOPOLIS MI WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01 CASS COUNTYWIDE
0440 PM 2 N NORTH WEBSTER IN .75 INCH HAIL
10/24/01 KOSCIUSKO REPORTED AT THE SYRACUSE
NWS FORECAST OFFICEThe Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 45 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:40 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado touched down north of the Elkhart/St Joseph Michigan county line southwest of White Pigeon and skipped northeast before lifting north of White pigeon. F1 damage near SR 131 and SR 12 to buildings and high tension wires.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Michigan in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Michigan, 2001Warnings in Michigan, October 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: 5270645.