2 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Sep 19, 2:49 PM EST, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA ISSUED BY NWS INDIANAPOLIS IN 249 PM EST THU SEP 19 2002 FORECAST FOCUS IS ON HOW HIGH TO GO WITH CHANCES FOR RAIN IN THE SHORT TERM. SHORT TERM DISCUSSION... AT 19Z COLD FRONT REAMINED WEST OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER. ATMOSPHERE WAS MOIST AND UNSTABLE...ALLOWING SCATTERED TSRA TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA (FA). TEMPERATURES REACHED THE UPPER 80S IN RAIN FREE AREAS WITH DEWPOINTS AROUND 70 ACROSS THE FA. MODELS IN FAIR AGREEMENT WITH BIG PICTURE...ALTHOUGH AVN CONTINUES TO BE THE FASTEST. ETA/S SPEED LOOKS BETTER AND ETA ALSO SHOWS PREFRONTAL SFC TROF THAT OFTEN OCCURS IN THESE SITUATIONS. THUS WILL LEAN TOWARD ETA THIS FORECAST...ALTHOUGH ETA MAY BE A BIT OVERDONE WITH QPF. CURRENT CONVECTION WILL CONTINUE INTO EVENING BEFORE WEAKENING. APPROACH OF FRONT AND UPPER TROF WILL BRING MORE RAIN INTO WESTERN FA BY 12Z. WILL THUS GO LIKELY POPS MUCH OF WRN FA WITH SCATTERED WORDING IN NW OH. THIS IS CLOSER TO MAV NUMBERS. WITH SOUTHERLY WINDS AND DEWPOINTS AROUND 70...LOW TEMPS WILL BE ON THE HIGH END OF GUIDANCE VALUES. ON FRIDAY COLD FRONT AND UPPER TROF WILL GRADUALLY MOVE ACROSS FA. GOOD DYNAMICS INCLUDING INFLUENCE OF RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF UPPER JET WILL LEAD TO CATEGORICAL POPS MOST OF FA. NW OH WILL BE LAST TO SEE BEST CHANCES FOR RAIN SO WILL GO HIGH LIKELY POPS THERE. LACK OF SIGNIFICANT HEATING WILL LIMIT SEVERE POTENTIAL...BUT 850 WINDS OF OVER 40 KTS COULD PROVIDE FOR A FEW STORMS WITH STRONG WINDS. GIVEN THOSE WINDS ALOFT WILL GO ABOVE GUIDANCE WIND SPEEDS AND GO BREEZY. FOR TEMPS WILL COMPROMISE BETWEEN GUIDANCE NUMBERS AS ANY BREAKS IN CLOUDS/RAIN WILL LEAD TO QUICK WARMING. WILL KEEP LIKELY POPS FRI NIGHT AS SYSTEM IS SLOW TO EXIT...AND WILL CONTINUE TIMING OF ENDING EARLY WEST AND LATE EAST. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... WILL CHANGE LITTLE IN EXTENDED AS CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS ON TRACK. COULD BE MORE CLOUDS ON SUNDAY AND TUESDAY WITH PASSAGE OF COLD FRONTS...BUT NO PRECIPITATION EXPECTED. WILL KEEP IT SIMPLE AND GO PARTLY CLOUDY. .IWX...NONE. CS
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
339 PM EST THU SEP 19 2002
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0335 PM MACY IN WIND DAMAGE
09/19/02 MIAMI TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
413 PM EST THU SEP 19 2002
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0345 PM WARSAW IN WIND DAMAGE
09/19/02 KOSCIUSKO TREES DOWN. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICIAL.
0350 PM LEESBURG IN WIND DAMAGE
09/19/02 KOSCIUSKO TREES DOWN. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICIAL.
0355 PM MILFORD IN WIND DAMAGE
09/19/02 KOSCIUSKO TREES DOWN. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICIAL.The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 54 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:35 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement reported trees were reported down on the road in Sturgis, Nottam and Colon.
Law enforcement reported trees down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Michigan in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Michigan, September 2002
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: 5315667, 5315668.