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, 3 hours 30 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
532 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0429 PM TIPPECANOE IN TORNADO
10/24/01 MARSHALL REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0523 PM 1 NE CORUNNA IN WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01 DEKALB REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR. TELEPHONE
LINES DOWN. TREE DAMAGE
TO A HOUSE.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
537 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0525 PM 4 W FREMONT IN TORNADO
10/24/01 STEUBEN REPORTED BY PUBLIC.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
538 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0525 PM 2 W FREMONT IN TORNADO
10/24/01 STEUBEN REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0525 PM FREMONT IN TORNADO
10/24/01 STEUBEN REPORTED BY PUBLIC.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
545 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0526 PM FAIRFIELD CENTER IN WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01 DEKALB TREE DOWN BLOCKING
COUNTY ROAD 10. LARGE
TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
HAM RADIO OPERATOR.
0537 PM 6 NW WATERLOO IN WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01 DEKALB REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR. ROOF BLOWN
OFF OF HOUSEPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
554 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0500 PM STURGIS MI WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01 ST.JOSEPH TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE.
REPORTED BY SHERIFF
0500 PM KENDALLVILLE IN TORNADO
10/24/01 NOBLE REPORTED BY FIRE AND
RESCUE. BUSINESSES ON
WEST SIDE OF TOWN
DAMAGED.
0500 PM KENDALLVILLE IN WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01 NOBLE TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE.
REPORTED BY FIRE AND
RESCUE.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
559 PM EST WED OCT 24 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0550 PM 5 SE MONROE IN .75 INCH HAIL
10/24/01 ADAMS REPORTED BY SHERIFF.The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:00 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado with F1 damage mainly on the north side of Ransom. Garages and sheds destroyed and significant roof damage to homes with twisting of signs and trees.
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: 5270650.