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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Northern Indiana

June 18, 2025Allen County, DeKalb County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2025, 5:42 PM EDT for Allen County, DeKalb County, Indiana. It was in force for 33 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: Jun 18, 2025, 5:42 PM EDT (21:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2025, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Allen County, IN, DeKalb County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 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
Jun 18, 1:01 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 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 Jun 17, 6:35 PM EDT, 23 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 6:35 PM EDT, 23 hours 7 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
Jun 17, 8:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Saint Joseph	105 min
Jun 17, 9:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	LaGrange	46 min
Jun 18, 5:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	White	41 min
Jun 18, 7:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Grant, Miami, Wabash	26 min
Jun 18, 9:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	LaGrange	23 min
Jun 18, 2:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Cass, LaPorte, Pulaski, Starke, White	59 min
Jun 18, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Cass, Fulton, LaPorte, Marshall, Pulaski, Saint Joseph and 2 more	45 min
Jun 18, 3:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Cass, Fulton	21 min
Jun 18, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Saint Joseph	38 min
Jun 18, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		65 min
Jun 18, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Cass, Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Miami, Wabash	44 min
Jun 18, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Elkhart, Marshall, Saint Joseph	58 min
Jun 18, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, Miami, Wabash	38 min
Jun 18, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, Whitley	34 min
Jun 18, 4:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Kosciusko	17 min
Jun 18, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		24 min
Jun 18, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Kosciusko, Whitley	32 min
Jun 18, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Kosciusko, Wabash	37 min
Jun 18, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Grant	20 min
Jun 18, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaGrange, Noble, Steuben	29 min
Jun 18, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Noble, Whitley	37 min
Jun 18, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Huntington	26 min
Jun 18, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaGrange, Steuben	50 min
Jun 18, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Huntington, Wells	29 min
Jun 18, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen, DeKalb	39 min
Jun 18, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Allen, Jay, Wells	38 min
Jun 18, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	DeKalb, Steuben	40 min
Jun 18, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Defiance, Henry, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert	38 min
Jun 18, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Defiance, Henry, Paulding	24 min
Jun 18, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton, Williams	50 min
Jun 18, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Henry, Putnam	19 min
Jun 18, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Defiance, Fulton, Henry	31 min
Jun 17, 8:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Cass	28 min
Jun 17, 8:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Cass	36 min
Jun 17, 9:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Cass	23 min
Jun 18, 5:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Branch	32 min
Jun 18, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Hillsdale	35 min

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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.