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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 19, 2026, 9:46 AM EST for Cass County, Fulton County, Indiana. It was in force for 29 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
- Feb 19, 2026, 9:46 AM EST (14:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 19, 2026, 10:15 AM EST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Cass County, IN, Fulton County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 211 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -290 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 783 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 Feb 19, 8:35 AM EST, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 19, 8:35 AM EST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Northern Indiana 438 AM EST Thu Feb 19 2026 INZ005>009-012>015-017-018-020-022>027-032>034-103-104-116-203-204- 216-MIZ078>081-177-277-OHZ001-002-004-005-015-016-024-025-200945- 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- 438 AM EST Thu Feb 19 2026 /338 AM CST Thu Feb 19 2026/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northern Indiana, southwest Michigan and northwest Ohio. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. A few strong to severe storms are possible this morning and again this afternoon and into the evening, especially south of US-30. Wind gusts and hail would be the primary concerns in any storms, although a tornado or two cannot be ruled out. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Slick and hazardous road conditions will be possible due to light snow showers on Sunday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. Andersen
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Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Feb 19, 3:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, White | 38 min |
| Feb 19, 4:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Miami | 47 min |
| Feb 19, 4:41 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Pulaski | 34 min |
| Feb 19, 4:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington, Kosciusko, Miami, Wabash, Whitley | 32 min |
| Feb 19, 5:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Kosciusko | 25 min |
| Feb 19, 5:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko, Wabash, Whitley | 51 min |
| Feb 19, 5:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Miami, Wabash | 31 min |
| Feb 19, 5:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko, Wabash | 30 min |
| Feb 19, 5:56 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb, Whitley | 49 min |
| Feb 19, 6:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, DeKalb | 33 min |
| Feb 19, 9:36 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Cass | 24 min |
| Feb 19, 9:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski | 25 min |
| Feb 19, 10:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Pulaski | 34 min |
| Feb 19, 10:46 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Elkhart | 29 min |
| Feb 19, 10:47 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Pulaski | 28 min |
| Feb 19, 12:34 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Wabash | 26 min |
| Feb 19, 12:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington, Wabash | 47 min |
| Feb 19, 1:32 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Huntington | 28 min |
| Feb 19, 1:39 PM EST | Wind Advisory | IWX | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 18 more | 29 hr |
| Feb 19, 1:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Allen, Wells | 25 min |
| Feb 19, 7:10 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Defiance | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.