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 May 26, 3:00 PM EST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 300 PM EST SAT MAY 26 2001 PRIMARY FCST CONCERN IS TSRA CHC FOR EARLY TONIGHT AND SVR POTENTIAL. LATEST WV IMAGERY INDICATED 5H LOW CNTR OVR W CNTRL IL...WITH ONE SHORTWAVE PIVOTING INTO NRN IN AND A SECOND SHORTWAVE EXTENDING TO SRN IL. SFC LOW PRES CNTR WAS NEAR KPIA...WITH A SFC TROF EXTENDING SE TO N CNTRL KY. STRONG MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND LI VALUES TO MINUS 4 WERE ALG TROF AXIS. AREA OF STRATIFORM RAIN IN ASSOCIATION WITH LEAD SHORTWAVE WAS OVR NRN IN AND LWR MI...WITH CONVECTION SCT OVR IL AND CNTRL AND SRN IN IN ASSOCIATION WITH SFC TROF AND SECOND SHORTWAVE. IN THE MID LVLS...MODELS PIVOT 5H LOW OVR RGN TONIGHT...THEN LIFT IT SLOWLY NEWRD NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. ETA AND NGM HAVE TRENDED FARTHER NE WITH THIS FEATURE...WHILE AVN HAS BEEN FAIRLY CONSISTENT AND ITS SOMEWHAT SLOWER SOLUTION IS PREFERRED. ETA AND AVN IN DECENT AGREEMENT WITH SHIFTING SFC LOW EWRD INTO NW IN THIS EVENING...THOUGH SFC LOW IS FARTHER S AT PRESENT THEN PROGGED. MODELS THEN LIFT LOW NEWRD OVR NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. BASED ON ABOVE...LAST ROUND OF WIDESPREAD CONVECTION SHOULD OCCUR TONIGHT. VWP AND WLCI3 PROFILER INDICATE DECENT MID LVL WND FIELD WITH 35 TO 40 KNOTS FM 2K FT THROUGH MID LVLS. CLOUD COVER AND RAIN HAVE ENABLED AIRMASS TO RMN FAIRLY STABLE THUS FAR...BUT VIS IMAGERY INDICATING SOME BREAKS TO THE S AND SW. IF AIRMASS CAN DESTABILIZE LATE AFT...A FEW SEVERE STORMS COULD BE POSSIBLE GIVEN WND FIELD AND LOW WEB BULB ZERO HEIGHTS. A WK MID LVL DISTURBANCE SCRAPING SRN SXNS OF CWFA ON SUN COULD TRIGGER A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS GIVEN COLD AIR ALOFT AND LEFT OVR MOISTURE...BUT CONVECTION SHOULD BE SCT IN NATURE...SO WL KEEP POPS IN 30 TO 40 PERCENT RANGE. WL HOLD ON TO LOW CHC POPS FOR EARLY SUN NIGHT...THEN WL OPT FOR DRY MEMORIAL DAY. AS FOR TEMPS...FWC AND MAV NUMBERS IN GOOD AGREEMENT AND WL STAY CLOSE. FWC HIGHS HAVE BEEN MUCH TOO WARM OF LATE...BUT WL ONLY TRIM SLIGHTLY NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS GIVEN INCREASING AMOUNTS OF SUNSHINE. AS FOR THE EXTD...MRF AND ECMWF BOTH SWING 5H TROF ACRS RGN ON THU AND FRI...SO WL INTRODUCE CHC POPS. .IWX...NONE. BARJENBRUCH
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
551 PM EST SAT MAY 26 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0545 PM FT WAYNE IN TORNADO
05/26/01 ALLEN REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR. TORNADO
TOUCHDOWN AT COLISEUM
AND STATE.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
557 PM EST SAT MAY 26 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0545 PM FT WAYNE IN TORNADO
05/26/01 ALLEN REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
TORNADO TOUCHDOWN AT
NORTHCREST SHOPPING
CENTER DAMAGE TO ROOF
OF KOHLS. SEVERAL CARS
TOPPLED.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
603 PM EST SAT MAY 26 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0510 PM 3 NE ROANOKE IN TORNADO
05/26/01 HUNTINGTON REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT. POLES DOWN,
TREE DOWN, AND ROKOF
DAMAGED BY TORNADO.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
616 PM EST SAT MAY 26 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0510 PM 3 WSW FT WAYNE IN TORNADO
05/26/01 ALLEN REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
NWS EMPLOYEE. LARGE
TREES DOWN, POWER LINES
DOWN, AND BARN ROOF
DAMAGED.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
635 PM EST SAT MAY 26 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0620 PM 1 N ST JOE IN TORNADO
05/26/01 DEKALB REPORTED BY FIRE AND
RESCUE. TORNADO
TOUCHDOWN CR 56 AND CR
59.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
644 PM EST SAT MAY 26 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0403 PM LOGANSPORT IN .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/01 CASS REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT. ON SOUTH
SIDE OF LOGANSPORT.
0422 PM PERU IN WIND DAMAGE
05/26/01 MIAMI REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
POWER LINES DOWN IN
COUNTY.
0430 PM ROANN IN 1 INCH HAIL
05/26/01 WABASH REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0430 PM PERU IN WIND DAMAGE
05/26/01 MIAMI REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
POWER LINES DOWN IN
COUNTY.
0439 PM 3 NE WABASH IN WIND DAMAGE
05/26/01 WABASH REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
12" DIAMETER TREES
SNAPPED OFF 12' ABOVE
GROUND.
0500 PM 5 N HUNTINGTON IN TORNADO
05/26/01 HUNTINGTON REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT. TORNADO
TOUCHDOWN IN FIELD WITH
NO DAMAGE.
0510 PM 3 NE ROANOKE IN TORNADO
05/26/01 HUNTINGTON REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT. POLES DOWN,
TREE DOWN, AND ROOF
DAMAGED BY TORNADO.
0510 PM 3 WSW FT WAYNE IN TORNADO
05/26/01 ALLEN REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
NWS EMPLOYEE. LARGE
TREES DOWN, POWER LINES
DOWN, AND BARN ROOF
DAMAGED.
0545 PM FT WAYNE IN TORNADO
05/26/01 ALLEN REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR. TORNADO
TOUCHDOWN AT COLISEUM
AND STATE.
0545 PM FT WAYNE IN TORNADO
05/26/01 ALLEN REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
TORNADO TOUCHDOWN AT
NORTHCREST SHOPPING
CENTER DAMAGE TO ROOF
OF KOHLS. SEVERAL CARS
TOPPLED.
0620 PM 1 N ST JOE IN TORNADO
05/26/01 D EKALB REPORTED BY FIRE AND
RESCUE. TORNADO
TOUCHDOWN CR 56 AND CR
59.The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 77 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:45 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Brief touchdown damaged barn, some structural damage to house, tree snapped.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Ohio in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Ohio, 2001Warnings in Ohio, May 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: 5243011.