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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 279, NWS Northern Indiana

August 11, 20265 counties in Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2026, 1:10 PM EDT for 5 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 46 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 11, 2026, 1:10 PM EDT (17:10 UTC)
Expired: Aug 11, 2026, 1:56 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Northern Indiana
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Damage threat: Destructive
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 80.0 mph

Counties Elkhart County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Noble County, IN, Whitley County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:13 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
Aug 11, 11:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 268 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: 3952 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.4
Supercell composite: 13.3

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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 11, 12:57 PM EDT, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 12:57 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 11, 11:36 AM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Northern Indiana
1136 AM EDT Tue Aug 11 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1035 AM     Hail             Knox                    41.29N 86.62W
08/11/2026  E2.50 Inch       Starke             IN   Public

            Photo of what appears to be hen egg to
            tennis ball sized hail in Knox (2 to 2.5
            inches in diameter). Time estimated via
            radar.

&&

MJ

Local storm report, Aug 11, 12:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Northern Indiana
1200 PM EDT Tue Aug 11 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1030 AM     Hail             Toto                    41.26N 86.70W
08/11/2026  E2.00 Inch       Starke             IN   Public

            Photo on Facebook of a 2 inch hailstone in
            Toto that fell at 930 AM CDT.

&&

MJ

Local storm report, Aug 11, 12:11 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Northern Indiana
1211 PM EDT Tue Aug 11 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1030 AM     Hail             3 E English Lake        41.26N 86.78W
08/11/2026  M2.75 Inch       Starke             IN   Public

            Hail damage to cars on Toto Road north of
            north Judson from baseball sized hail.

&&

MJ

Local storm report, Aug 11, 12:19 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Northern Indiana
1219 PM EDT Tue Aug 11 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1110 AM     Hail             1 N North Judson        41.23N 86.78W
08/11/2026  M2.75 Inch       Starke             IN   Public

            Damage to car windshields and roofs in North
            Judson due to large hail.

&&

MJ

Local storm report, Aug 11, 12:22 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Northern Indiana
1222 PM EDT Tue Aug 11 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1110 AM     Hail             2 W Toto                41.26N 86.74W
08/11/2026  E3.00 Inch       Starke             IN   Public

            Estimated 3 inch hailstone. Photo on
            Facebook but no official measurement. Fell
            on SR 39 north of North Judson. Time
            estimated via radar.

&&

MJ

Local storm report, Aug 11, 12:53 PM EDT, 17 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 10, 8:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall	40 min
Aug 10, 8:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Kosciusko, Marshall	25 min
Aug 10, 8:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Pulaski, Starke	12 min
Aug 10, 8:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Allen	48 min
Aug 10, 8:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, Whitley	23 min
Aug 10, 8:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Kosciusko, Marshall	39 min
Aug 10, 8:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, Fulton, Miami	41 min
Aug 10, 9:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams	35 min
Aug 10, 9:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Allen, Wells	27 min
Aug 10, 9:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Adams	3 hr
Aug 11, 12:56 AM EDT	Flood Watch	IWX	Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 18 more	3 days
Aug 11, 1:58 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		92 min
Aug 11, 4:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Steuben	25 min
Aug 11, 5:17 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		88 min
Aug 11, 5:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Fulton	33 min
Aug 11, 5:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall	27 min
Aug 11, 6:04 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Fulton, Pulaski, Starke	3 hr
Aug 11, 6:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Saint Joseph	52 min
Aug 11, 6:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Kosciusko	32 min
Aug 11, 6:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	LaPorte, Saint Joseph	35 min
Aug 11, 7:02 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Allen, Cass, Fulton, Huntington, Miami, Wabash and 1 more	2 hr
Aug 11, 7:06 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Jay, Wells	39 min
Aug 11, 7:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall, Noble, Saint Joseph	38 min
Aug 11, 7:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Blackford, Grant, Huntington, Jay, Wells	45 min
Aug 11, 7:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Jay	47 min
Aug 11, 7:56 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Jay	24 min
Aug 11, 8:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass	47 min
Aug 11, 9:10 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Cass, Fulton, Miami, Pulaski, Wabash	80 min
Aug 11, 9:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, Miami	24 min
Aug 11, 9:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Pulaski	39 min
Aug 11, 10:00 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Pulaski	2 hr
Aug 11, 10:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Pulaski	45 min
Aug 11, 10:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	LaPorte, Pulaski, Starke	51 min
Aug 11, 10:28 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Cass, Fulton, Miami	92 min
Aug 11, 10:59 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Fulton, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke	61 min
Aug 11, 10:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Starke	46 min
Aug 11, 11:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	IWX	LaPorte, Starke	36 min
Aug 11, 11:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Blackford, Cass, Grant, Huntington, Miami, Wabash and 1 more	41 min
Aug 11, 11:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Pulaski	20 min
Aug 11, 11:57 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	IWX	Cass, Fulton, LaPorte, Miami, Pulaski, Starke and 1 more	3 hr
Aug 11, 12:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, Fulton, Pulaski	51 min
Aug 11, 12:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Adams, Blackford, Grant, Jay, Wells	64 min
Aug 11, 12:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	LaPorte	46 min
Aug 11, 12:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Pulaski, Starke	40 min
Aug 11, 12:22 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	IWX		38 min
Aug 11, 12:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Blackford, Grant, Huntington, Miami, Wabash, Wells	2 hr
Aug 11, 12:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Grant, Miami, Wabash	42 min
Aug 11, 12:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IWX	Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall, Saint Joseph	56 min
Aug 11, 12:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	White	29 min
Aug 11, 12:46 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	LaPorte, Pulaski, Starke	101 min
Aug 11, 12:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IWX	Cass, Fulton, Miami, Pulaski, White	39 min
Aug 11, 1:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Cass, Miami	28 min
Aug 11, 1:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, DeKalb	51 min
Aug 11, 1:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Cass, Miami	118 min
Aug 11, 2:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	IWX	Cass, Fulton, Grant, LaPorte, Marshall, Miami and 4 more	6 hr
Aug 11, 2:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	IWX	Blackford, Grant, Jay, Wells	104 min
Aug 10, 9:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Allen, Van Wert	49 min
Aug 10, 9:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Putnam	18 min
Aug 10, 10:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Defiance, Henry, Paulding, Putnam	24 min
Aug 10, 11:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton	29 min
Aug 11, 4:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Fulton	51 min
Aug 11, 8:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Allen, Putnam	17 min
Aug 11, 1:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Berrien	24 min
Aug 11, 2:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Berrien	28 min
Aug 11, 2:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IWX	Berrien, Cass	29 min
Aug 11, 3:48 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Hillsdale	27 min
Aug 11, 3:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Cass	25 min
Aug 11, 4:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	IWX	Cass	23 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.