Thunderstorm Wind, Van Wert
- When
- July 22, 7:08 PM EST
- Where
- Van Wert County, 2 mi W of Van Wert
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.867, -84.600
Sheriff dispatch reported trees down west of Van Wert.
Damaging Wind in Ohio, July 22, 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 Jul 22, 2:49 PM EST, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:49 PM EST, 4 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 249 PM EST MON JUL 22 2002 SHORT TERM... BRIEF DISCUSSION DUE TO CURRENT WATCH AND ANOTHER WATCH ABOUT TO BE ISSUED. BASICALLY...COLD FRONT SWEEPS INTO THE CWFA TONIGHT...AND EXITS THE SOUTHEAST CORNER AROUND 12Z TUESDAY. PLENTY OF MOISTURE FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN TONIGHT...AND SLIGHT CHACNE OF SEVERE THIS EVENING. OTHER THAN A FEW LINGERING SHOWERS TUESDAY MORNING IN THE SOUTHEAST...DRY AIR AND HIGH PRESSURE BUILD IN FOR THE REST OF THE SHORT TERM. MOS TEMPS IN GOOD AGREEMENT AND WILL BLEND. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... 12Z AVN RUN INDICATES THU PD WL RMN DRY...PER PREVIOUS PACKAGE CHANGE. AVN CONTINUES TO INDICATED A SERIES OF MID LVL DISTURBANCES CROSSING RGN ON FRI AND SAT...SO LIKE GOING CHC POPS. MRF AND ESPECIALLY ECMWF...BUILD 5H RDG OVR LWR GRTLKS AND OH VLY ON SUN... WITH WRMFNT DISPLACED TO N OF RGN. THUS...WL OPT FOR DRY FCST AND BOOST TEMPS. NEXT FNT WL IMPACT RGN ON MON...SO CHC POPS AGAIN RETURN TO FCST. .IWX...NONE. 12/BARJENBRUCH
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 22, 6:11 PM EST, 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
611 PM EST MON JUL 22 2002
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0546 PM 4 W READING MI WIND DAMAGE
07/22/02 HILLSDALE BARN BLOWN DOWN.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0546 PM 1 NW MOSCOW MI WIND DAMAGE
07/22/02 HILLSDALE TREES BLOWN DOWN. REPORTED BY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.Local storm report, Jul 22, 6:13 PM EST, 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
613 PM EST MON JUL 22 2002
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0555 PM 2 N PERU IN WIND DAMAGE
07/22/02 MIAMI TREE BLOWN DOWN. REPORTED BY SHERIFF.
BY SHERIFF.Local storm report, Jul 22, 6:24 PM EST, 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
624 PM EST MON JUL 22 2002
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0552 PM ONWARD IN WIND DAMAGE
07/22/02 CASS TREES BLOWN DOWN.
ROOFS DAMAGED BY WIND.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.Local storm report, Jul 22, 6:29 PM EST, 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
629 PM EST MON JUL 22 2002
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0450 PM 6 W FREMONT IN WIND DAMAGE
07/22/02 STEUBEN 3 TREES BLOWN DOWN IN
THE LAKE PLEASANT AREA.
ONE OF THE TREES WAS
BLOWN DOWN ONTO A
HOUSE. REPORTED BY
STORM SPOTTER.Local storm report, Jul 22, 6:38 PM EST, 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
638 PM EST MON JUL 22 2002
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0617 PM BUNKER HILL IN WIND DAMAGE
07/22/02 MIAMI TREE DOWN. REPORTED BY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.Special weather statement, Jul 22, 6:42 PM EST, 26 minutes before
INZ003-004-012>015-020-022-MIZ077-078-230015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 642 PM EST MON JUL 22 2002 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE MICHIGAN COUNTIES OF BERRIEN AND CASS...AND THE INDIANA COUNTIES OF LAPORTE...SAINT JOSEPH...STARKE ...MARSHALL...PULASKI...FULTON...WHITE...AND CASS HAS BEEN CANCELED. STORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE WATCH AREA AND THERE IS LITTLE POTENTIAL FOR ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER.
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 107 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:08 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
- Heat in Maryland, July 22 to 23, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, July 22, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 22, 2002
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 22, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 22, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in North Carolina, July 22, 2002
- Flash Flood in Colorado, July 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 22, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Missouri, July 22, 2002
More
Every storm in Ohio in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, July 2002
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: 5307826.