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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Northern Indiana

March 31, 2026Berrien County, Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2026, 1:21 AM EDT for Berrien County, Michigan. It was in force for 24 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
Mar 31, 2026, 1:21 AM EDT (05:21 UTC)
Expired
Mar 31, 2026, 1:45 AM EDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Berrien County, MI

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:21 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 262 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, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 2026-03-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 260 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, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 2026-03-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 207 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
260 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1124 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
413 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
2.7

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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 Mar 30, 9:19 PM EDT, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 9:19 PM EDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 31, 12:45 AM EDT, 36 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 31, 12:38 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningIWX67 min
Mar 31, 1:06 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningIWX39 min
Mar 31, 2:29 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXLaGrange31 min
Mar 31, 2:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXAllen24 min
Mar 31, 2:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, DeKalb47 min
Mar 31, 5:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Starke35 min
Mar 31, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaPorte, Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke28 min
Mar 31, 6:07 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXLaPorte, Marshall, Starke4 hr
Mar 31, 6:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Wabash, Whitley34 min
Mar 31, 6:27 PM EDTTornado WarningIWXKosciusko, Wabash33 min
Mar 31, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, Huntington, Kosciusko, Wabash, Wells, Whitley23 min
Mar 31, 6:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, DeKalb, Noble37 min
Mar 31, 6:40 PM EDTTornado WarningIWXHuntington, Wabash, Wells, Whitley25 min
Mar 31, 6:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAdams, Allen, Huntington, Wells, Whitley36 min
Mar 31, 7:01 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWXKosciusko, Marshall4 hr
Mar 31, 7:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, DeKalb27 min
Mar 31, 7:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, Huntington, Kosciusko, Wabash, Wells, Whitley24 min
Mar 31, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAdams, Allen, Huntington, Wells, Whitley35 min
Mar 31, 3:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXDefiance, Henry35 min
Mar 31, 7:10 PM EDTTornado WarningIWXDefiance, Paulding35 min
Mar 31, 7:16 PM EDTTornado WarningIWXPaulding, Van Wert29 min
Mar 31, 7:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXDefiance, Henry, Paulding, Putnam33 min
Mar 31, 7:42 PM EDTTornado WarningIWXAllen, Putnam33 min
Mar 31, 12:45 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWXBerrien45 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.