Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2026, 6:32 PM EDT for Cass County, Miami County, Indiana. It was in force for 43 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
- Apr 3, 2026, 6:32 PM EDT (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2026, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Cass County, IN, Miami County, IN
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 6:18 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 215 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1023 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 3, 2:22 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 2:22 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 3, 2:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Northern Indiana 240 PM EDT Fri Apr 3 2026 INZ005>009-012>015-017-018-103-104-116-203-204-216-MIZ078>080-177- 277-041845- Elkhart-Lagrange-Steuben-Noble-De Kalb-Starke-Pulaski-Marshall- Fulton IN-Whitley-Allen IN-Northern La Porte-Eastern St. Joseph IN- Northern Kosciusko-Southern La Porte-Western St. Joseph IN- Southern Kosciusko-Cass MI-St. Joseph MI-Branch-Northern Berrien- Southern Berrien- 240 PM EDT Fri Apr 3 2026 /140 PM CDT Fri Apr 3 2026/ ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM EDT /10 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northern Indiana and southwest Michigan. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Flood Watch. Isolated thunderstorms late this afternoon and evening become more widespread overnight. A few storms may be severe. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Flood Watch. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. INZ020-022>027-032>034-MIZ081-OHZ001-002-004-005-015-016-024-025- 041845- White-Cass IN-Miami-Wabash-Huntington-Wells-Adams-Grant-Blackford- Jay-Hillsdale-Williams-Fulton OH-Defiance-Henry-Paulding-Putnam- Van Wert-Allen OH- 240 PM EDT Fri Apr 3 2026 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northern Indiana, southwest Michigan and northwest Ohio. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Isolated thunderstorms late this afternoon and evening become more widespread overnight. A few storms may be severe. Locally heavy rainfall is possible. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. On Saturday, there is a risk of severe thunderstorms over northwest Ohio. Locally heavy rainfall is possible. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. LMZ043-046-041845- New Buffalo MI to St Joseph MI-Michigan City IN to New Buffalo MI- 240 PM EDT Fri Apr 3 2026 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the nearshore waters of southeastern Lake Michigan. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Conditions hazardous to small craft are possible this weekend.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 8:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Kosciusko | 30 min |
| Apr 2, 8:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Miami, Noble, Wabash and 1 more | 39 min |
| Apr 2, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Miami | 30 min |
| Apr 2, 8:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben | 23 min |
| Apr 2, 8:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Grant | 38 min |
| Apr 2, 9:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | DeKalb, Steuben | 54 min |
| Apr 2, 9:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | IWX | 90 min | |
| Apr 2, 9:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen | 48 min |
| Apr 2, 10:00 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | IWX | 7 hr | |
| Apr 2, 10:35 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Pulaski | 9 days |
| Apr 2, 10:51 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Marshall, Saint Joseph, Starke | 4 days |
| Apr 2, 10:51 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Carroll, Pulaski, White | 21 days |
| Apr 2, 11:16 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | IWX | 59 min | |
| Apr 3, 12:39 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | IWX | 51 min | |
| Apr 3, 4:39 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Adams, Wells | 42 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:17 PM EDT | Flood Watch | IWX | Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaGrange and 8 more | 27 hr |
| Apr 3, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant, Huntington, Wabash | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Miami, Wabash | 25 min |
| Apr 3, 7:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Grant, Huntington | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 1:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Berrien | 45 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2026Every 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.