Thunderstorm Wind, St. Joseph
- When
- September 7, 5:10 PM EST
- Where
- St. Joseph County, Three Rivers
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.933, -85.633
Approximately a dozen trees blown down.
Damaging Winds in Michigan, September 7, 2001
3 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 Sep 7, 3:05 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 3:05 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 305 PM EST FRI SEP 7 2001 TSRA OCCRNG ATTM ALONG IL/IN BRDR AHD OF S/W IN S IL. MESOETA BRINGS THIS S/W NNE THIS EVE AND WKNS IT OVRNGT. MORE TSRA FROM SE IN INTO WC OH ALSO MOVG NNE. MODELS AGREE QUITE WELL ON DVLPG AND MOVG ANOTHER S/W ACRS NW IL TNGT AND INCR NLLJ TO 40 TO 50 KT FRM SW TO NE IL. WL HV SCT WRDNG ACRS CWA TNGT. MODELS CONT TO SLOW DWN PROGRESS OF SFC FNT TO OUR W AS POSITIVELY TILTED MID/UPR TROF DIGS INTO PLAINS. SHORT-TERM MODELS PUSH SFC FNT ONLY AS FAR E AS IN...WEAKENING IT SIGNIFICANTLY...THRU SUN. NO BIG SWINGS IN ZFP POPS FRM PD TO PD WITH AMTS REMAINING WARM AND MOIST AND DIFFICULTY OF ACCURATELY TIMING SHRT WVS. CURRENT AVN RUN SIG DIFF FRM 24 HRS AGO. AT THE SFC IT DVLPS LO PRES OVR SW US SAT EVE AND MOVS IT NE ALONG MS VLY TROF/FNT REACHING IN EARLY MON MRNG...AND THEN KEEPING IT OVR IN/OH THRU TUE NGT. AT 5H TROF STAYS TO OUR W THRU SUN NGT AS IT DAMPENS OUT...AND CUT-OFF LO BREAKS OFF AND MEANDERS ACRS IN TUE AND WASHES OUT OVR OH WED. MRF ALSO BREAKS OFF THIS SML LO BUT ZIPS IT THRU THE LKS AND E OF HERE BY 12Z TUE. AVN BRINGS STRONG VORT THRU MON NGT...MRF DVLPS VORT TOO BUT BRINGS IT THRU ON MON. CURRENT OUTER PDS OF ZFP ARE DRY. WITH GREAT RUN-TO-RUN AND MODEL-TO-MODEL INCONSISTENCIES AM LOATHE TO MAKE DRASTIC CHANGES TO FAR PDS OF FCST...SO WL LEAVE DRY BUT WL CHNG FRM PC TO CLDY/MSTLY CLDY MON-TUE. MOS TEMPS LUK GD TNGT W...THO PERHAPS A BIT COOL E. MAXES TMRW LOOK GD E AND A BIT COOL W. .IWX...NONE. 12
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 64 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:11 UTC.
Event by event
3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Hillsdale
- When
- September 7, 6:31 PM EST
- Where
- Hillsdale County, Reading
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.833, -84.750
Numerous trees blown down.
Thunderstorm Wind, Hillsdale
- When
- September 7, 6:41 PM EST
- Where
- Hillsdale County, Hillsdale
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 41.917, -84.617
Three power lines blown down.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, September 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, September 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, September 7, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, September 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, September 7 to 8, 2001
- Tornado and Flood in Oklahoma, September 7, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, September 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, September 7 to 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, September 7 to 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, September 7, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, September 7, 2001
- Tornado in Nebraska, September 7, 2001
More
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Sources
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: 5268916, 5268917, 5268918.