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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Northern Indiana

March 30, 20255 counties in Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2025, 5:01 PM EDT for 5 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 2025, 5:01 PM EDT (21:01 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2025, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Blackford County, IN, Grant County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, Wells County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 30, 2:13 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, 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 this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 29, 7:16 PM EDT, 21 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 7:16 PM EDT, 21 hours 45 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 3:41 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	IWX		49 hr
Mar 30, 3:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Cass, Fulton, Pulaski, Starke, White	29 min
Mar 30, 3:41 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		94 min
Mar 30, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Marshall, Pulaski, Saint Joseph, Starke	69 min
Mar 30, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Cass, Fulton, Marshall, Miami, Pulaski, Starke and 1 more	51 min
Mar 30, 4:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Pulaski, Starke	25 min
Mar 30, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Cass, Elkhart, Fulton, Grant, Huntington, Kosciusko and 7 more	57 min
Mar 30, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Elkhart, LaGrange, Marshall, Saint Joseph	49 min
Mar 30, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Grant, Huntington and 7 more	55 min
Mar 30, 5:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	DeKalb, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben	24 min
Mar 30, 5:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	LaGrange	30 min
Mar 30, 5:17 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	DeKalb, Noble	28 min
Mar 30, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaGrange, Steuben	55 min
Mar 30, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Allen, DeKalb, Steuben	56 min
Mar 30, 5:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Steuben	26 min
Mar 30, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Defiance, Fulton, Henry	35 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.