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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 238, NWS Northern Indiana

August 10, 2026White County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2026, 3:03 AM EDT for White County, Indiana. It was in force for 57 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: Aug 10, 2026, 3:03 AM EDT (07:03 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2026, 4:00 AM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County White County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 3443 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 949 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 334 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.1
Supercell composite: 13.5

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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 Aug 10, 1:19 AM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 1:19 AM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 9, 11:04 PM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 11:06 PM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 11:12 PM EDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 11:14 PM EDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 10, 2:09 AM EDT, 54 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
Aug 9, 8:27 PM EDT	Flood Watch	IWX	Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Huntington, Kosciusko and 11 more	11 hr
Aug 10, 1:49 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		56 min
Aug 10, 6:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Grant	36 min
Aug 10, 7:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Adams, Huntington, Wells	39 min
Aug 10, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke	52 min
Aug 10, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Huntington, Kosciusko, Wabash, Wells, Whitley	51 min
Aug 10, 7:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke	51 min
Aug 10, 7:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Pulaski, Starke	2 hr
Aug 10, 7:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke	50 min
Aug 9, 8:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Fulton	18 min
Aug 10, 7:43 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Paulding, Van Wert	47 min
Aug 10, 8:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Putnam	32 min
Aug 10, 9:02 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Defiance, Henry, Paulding	3 hr
Aug 10, 9:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Van Wert	24 min
Aug 10, 9:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen	44 min
Aug 10, 9:35 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Allen, Defiance, Henry, Paulding, Putnam	3 hr
Aug 10, 1:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Cass	45 min
Aug 10, 2:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Cass	36 min
Aug 10, 2:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Berrien, Cass	29 min
Aug 10, 2:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Berrien	28 min
Aug 10, 2:55 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Berrien	2 hr

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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.