Thunderstorm Wind, St. Joseph
- When
- August 13, 2:15 PM EST
- Where
- St. Joseph County, South Bend
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 41.667, -86.250
HAM radio operator reported trees down in South Bend.
Damaging Wind in Indiana, August 13, 2002
1 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
- 1
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 Aug 13, 11:07 AM EST, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 11:07 AM EST, 3 hours 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1107 AM EST TUE AUG 13 2002 OVERALL...ONGOING FCST APPEARS ON TRACK WITH THE HIGHEST POPS OVER NORTHWEST COUNTIES TOWARD LAKE MICHIGAN. HOWEVER...HAVE RAISED HIGHS OVER ALL AREAS FOR THIS AFTERNOON AS LATE MORNING TEMPERATURES ALREADY CLIMBING INTO THE 80S. 850 MB TEMPS AROUND +17C SUPPORT HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S. ANTICIPATE NORTHWEST OHIO SHOULD REACH THE UPPER 80S AS MOST STORMS SHOULD HOLD OFF TIL LATE AFTERNOON. .IWX...NONE. SKIP
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 13, 1:41 PM EST, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
141 PM EST TUE AUG 13 2002
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0135 PM CENTREVILLE MI WIND DAMAGE
08/13/02 ST.JOSEPH TREES DOWN. REPORTED
BY PUBLIC.
0135 PM THREE RIVERS MI WIND DAMAGE
08/13/02 ST.JOSEPH TREES DOWN. REPORTED
BY PUBLIC.The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 57 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:12 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 13 to 14, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Texas, August 13, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Michigan, August 13, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Oklahoma, August 13 to 14, 2002
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, August 13, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 13, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New York, August 13, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, August 13, 2002
- Flash Flood in Arkansas, August 13, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, August 13, 2002
- Tornado and Flooding in Wisconsin, August 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, August 13, 2002
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: 5314746.