Thunderstorm Wind, Van Wert
- When
- September 19, 5:30 PM EST to 5:32 PM EST
- Where
- Van Wert County, Scott
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 40.983, -84.567
Tree and power lines were blown down in Scott and Van Wert.
Damaging Wind in Ohio, September 19, 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 Sep 19, 2:49 PM EST, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 19, 2:49 PM EST, 2 hours 41 minutes before
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
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 19, 4:13 PM EST, 1 hour 17 minutes before
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.Local storm report, Sep 19, 4:36 PM EST, 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
436 PM EST THU SEP 19 2002
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0415 PM 4 S NEW PARIS IN WIND DAMAGE
09/19/02 ELKHART LARGE TREE LINBS DOWN
REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
NWS EMPLOYEE.Local storm report, Sep 19, 4:39 PM EST, 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
439 PM EST THU SEP 19 2002
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0412 PM TOPEKA IN WIND DAMAGE
09/19/02 LAGRANGE 3 TREES BLOWN DOWN.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Sep 19, 4:45 PM EST, 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
445 PM EST THU SEP 19 2002
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0415 PM 4 S NEW PARIS IN WIND DAMAGE
09/19/02 ELKHART LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN.
REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
NWS EMPLOYEE.Local storm report, Sep 19, 4:49 PM EST, 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
449 PM EST THU SEP 19 2002
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0432 PM WATERLOO IN WIND DAMAGE
09/19/02 DEKALB TREE LIMBS DOWN. A TREE
ACROSS SR 427 AND US 6.
REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR.Local storm report, Sep 19, 5:22 PM EST, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
522 PM EST THU SEP 19 2002
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0435 PM STURGIS MI WIND DAMAGE
09/19/02 ST.JOSEPH TREE ACROSS ROAD.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0442 PM NOTTAWA MI WIND DAMAGE
09/19/02 ST.JOSEPH TREE ACROSS ROAD.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0445 PM COLON MI WIND DAMAGE
09/19/02 ST.JOSEPH TREE ACROSS ROAD.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0500 PM 3 S HAMILTON IN WIND DAMAGE
09/19/02 STEUBEN SEVERAL LARGE LIMBS
DOWN. REPORTED BY HAM
RADIO OPERATOR.The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:29 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 Michigan, September 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Texas, September 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Texas, September 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, September 19, 2002
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Lake Michigan, September 19, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, September 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, September 19, 2002
- Flood and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, September 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in South Dakota, September 19, 2002
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Missouri, September 19, 2002
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Lake Huron, September 19, 2002
- Flooding and Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, September 19, 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: 5315669.