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Tornado Watch 90
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2026, 6:28 PM EDT for Elkhart County, LaPorte County, Saint Joseph County, Indiana; 9 counties in Michigan. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2026, 6:28 PM EDT (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2026, 9:12 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 55 kt
Counties Elkhart County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Allegan County, MI, Barry County, MI, Berrien County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Cass County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Van Buren County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 43 min |
| Apr 2, 6:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Cass, Saint Joseph | 35 min |
| Apr 2, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Allegan, Barry | 38 min |
| Apr 2, 7:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Kalamazoo, Van Buren | 44 min |
| Apr 2, 7:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Calhoun, Kalamazoo | 25 min |
| Apr 2, 7:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Calhoun, Kalamazoo | 25 min |
| Apr 2, 8:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Barry, Calhoun, Eaton | 30 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 6:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 39 more | 94 min |
| Apr 2, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clay and 27 more | 118 min |
| Apr 2, 1:34 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alger, Alpena, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Delta and 8 more | 4 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.