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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Northern Indiana

July 27, 2026LaPorte County, Saint Joseph County, Indiana; Berrien County, Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2026, 1:34 PM CDT for LaPorte County, Saint Joseph County, Indiana; Berrien County, Michigan. It was in force for 26 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 27, 2026, 1:34 PM CDT (18:34 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2026, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties LaPorte County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Berrien County, MI

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:37 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
Jul 27, 11:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 247 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: 3689 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 801 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 4.1

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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 27, 11:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 11:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 47 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
Jul 27, 2:46 AM CDT	Beach Hazards Statement	IWX	LaPorte	50 hr
Jul 27, 2:48 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	IWX		50 hr
Jul 27, 5:50 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	IWX	Fulton, LaPorte, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke, White	2 hr
Jul 27, 9:52 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	IWX	LaPorte, Pulaski, Starke, White	6 hr
Jul 27, 12:16 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		119 min
Jul 27, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	IWX	LaPorte, Pulaski, Starke	23 min
Jul 27, 1:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph	49 min
Jul 27, 1:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Cass, Fulton, LaPorte, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke and 1 more	46 min
Jul 27, 2:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke	44 min
Jul 27, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall, Saint Joseph	32 min
Jul 27, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		95 min
Jul 27, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, Grant, Huntington, Miami, Wabash	52 min
Jul 27, 3:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	LaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph	3 hr
Jul 27, 3:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Blackford, Grant	39 min
Jul 27, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Blackford, Grant, Huntington, Jay, Wells	42 min
Jul 27, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte	49 min
Jul 27, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Pulaski, Starke	39 min
Jul 27, 7:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Cass	52 min
Jul 27, 7:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, Saint Joseph	32 min
Jul 27, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Berrien	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2026 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2026 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2026

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.