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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2026, 1:10 PM CDT for 4 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 16 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
- Jul 18, 2026, 1:10 PM CDT (18:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2026, 1:26 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties LaPorte County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 319 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
- 911 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 18, 11:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 11:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 17, 9:16 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | IWX | 31 hr | |
| Jul 17, 9:41 PM CDT | Beach Hazards Statement | IWX | LaPorte | 30 hr |
| Jul 18, 12:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Elkhart | 35 min |
| Jul 18, 1:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Elkhart | 21 min |
| Jul 18, 1:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Marshall, Starke | 31 min |
| Jul 18, 1:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | Marshall, Starke | 116 min |
| Jul 18, 2:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Fulton | 31 min |
| Jul 18, 3:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Grant | 28 min |
| Jul 18, 3:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Blackford, Grant, Jay | 35 min |
| Jul 17, 8:19 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | Williams | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 3:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen | 25 min |
| Jul 18, 11:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Cass | 28 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.