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Special Weather Statement, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this special weather statement at Apr 14, 2026, 5:21 AM EDT for Elkhart County, Marshall County, Saint Joseph County, Indiana; Cass County, Saint Joseph County, Michigan. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 2026, 5:21 AM EDT (09:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2026, 6:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Hail
- 0.00 in
- Wind
- 40
Counties Elkhart County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Cass County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 854 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1416 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 14, 3:22 AM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 3:22 AM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 14, 4:41 AM EDT, 40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 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, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Miami | 34 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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Special Weather Statements in Indiana, 2026Special Weather Statements in Michigan, 2026Every special weather statement 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.