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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 291, NWS Northern Indiana

August 26, 2026Elkhart County, Kosciusko County, Indiana

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2026, 4:28 PM EDT for Elkhart County, Kosciusko County, Indiana. It was in force for 32 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 26, 2026, 4:28 PM EDT (20:28 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Elkhart County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 270 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2026-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 373 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2026-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 182 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
373 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1240 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 3:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton, Pulaski43 min
Aug 26, 3:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton32 min
Aug 26, 4:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton, Pulaski12 min
Aug 26, 5:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXWabash23 min
Aug 26, 6:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXWells31 min
Aug 26, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXHuntington31 min
Aug 26, 5:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXHillsdale24 min

Nearby

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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.