Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2025

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Northern Indiana

June 27, 2025Kosciusko County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2025, 2:59 PM EDT for Kosciusko County, Indiana. It was in force for 31 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 27, 2025, 2:59 PM EDT (18:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2025, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Kosciusko County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 27, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 261 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 696 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1146 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 26, 6:44 PM EDT, 20 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 6:44 PM EDT, 20 hours 15 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 3:03 PM EDT, 23 hours 56 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Northern Indiana
303 PM EDT Thu Jun 26 2025

INZ005>009-012>015-017-018-020-022>027-032>034-103-104-116-203-204-
216-MIZ078>081-177-277-OHZ001-002-004-005-015-016-024-025-271915-
Elkhart-Lagrange-Steuben-Noble-De Kalb-Starke-Pulaski-Marshall-
Fulton IN-Whitley-Allen IN-White-Cass IN-Miami-Wabash-Huntington-
Wells-Adams-Grant-Blackford-Jay-Northern La Porte-
Eastern St. Joseph IN-Northern Kosciusko-Southern La Porte-
Western St. Joseph IN-Southern Kosciusko-Cass MI-St. Joseph MI-
Branch-Hillsdale-Northern Berrien-Southern Berrien-Williams-
Fulton OH-Defiance-Henry-Paulding-Putnam-Van Wert-Allen OH-
303 PM EDT Thu Jun 26 2025 /203 PM CDT Thu Jun 26 2025/

...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ THIS
EVENING...

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northern Indiana, southwest
Michigan and northwest Ohio.

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the
Internet for more information about the following hazards.

   Heat Advisory.

Marginally severe thunderstorms are possible today with the greatest
threat from damaging winds.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

LMZ043-046-271915-
New Buffalo MI to St Joseph MI-Michigan City IN to New Buffalo MI-
303 PM EDT Thu Jun 26 2025

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the nearshore waters of
southeastern Lake Michigan.

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

Marginally severe thunderstorms are possible today with the greatest
threat from damaging winds.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 9:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	LaPorte	44 min
Jun 26, 10:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Saint Joseph	28 min
Jun 26, 11:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	LaPorte	27 min
Jun 27, 12:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	White	34 min
Jun 27, 3:09 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	IWX	Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 18 more	16 hr
Jun 27, 1:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	White	30 min
Jun 27, 2:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Cass	39 min
Jun 27, 2:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Cass, Fulton, Miami, Wabash	51 min
Jun 27, 2:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Kosciusko	24 min
Jun 27, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Kosciusko	36 min
Jun 27, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Noble	28 min
Jun 27, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Jay	47 min
Jun 26, 8:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Berrien	51 min
Jun 26, 9:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Berrien	37 min
Jun 26, 9:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Van Buren	40 min
Jun 26, 10:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Berrien	23 min
Jun 26, 11:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Cass	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2025 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2025

Sources

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