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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 2026, 5:11 PM EDT for Cass County, Miami County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 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 14, 2026, 5:11 PM EDT (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2026, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 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 21:11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 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
- 277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1325 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 14, 3:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 3:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 13, 9:50 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | IWX | 10 hr | |
| Apr 14, 3:20 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | IWX | 115 min | |
| Apr 14, 4:41 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | LaPorte, Saint Joseph | 64 min |
| Apr 14, 5:21 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Elkhart, Marshall, Saint Joseph | 54 min |
| Apr 14, 1:19 PM EDT | Flood Watch | IWX | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 18 more | 43 hr |
| Apr 14, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Pulaski, White | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Marshall, Miami, Pulaski, White | 24 min |
| Apr 14, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Miami | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Miami | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Whitley | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant, Huntington, Miami, Wabash | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant, Miami | 35 min |
| Apr 14, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko, Noble | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant, Huntington, Wabash, Wells | 38 min |
| Apr 14, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant, Jay, Wells | 27 min |
| Apr 14, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 26 min |
| Apr 14, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Blackford, Grant, Jay, Wells | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Jay | 23 min |
| Apr 14, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Jay | 26 min |
| Apr 14, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Blackford, Jay, Wells | 21 min |
| Apr 14, 10:47 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | Defiance, Fulton, Williams | 12 days |
| Apr 14, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Allen | 43 min |
| Apr 14, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 45 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.