Hail, Berrien
- When
- April 25, 8:30 PM EST to 8:31 PM EST
- Where
- Berrien County, 1.72 mi SE of Hagar Shrs
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 42.210, -86.330
Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, April 25, 2016
A frontal boundary and upper level disturbance interacted with an unstable atmosphere to allow thunderstorms to develop across southern Lake Michigan into southern Lower Michigan. A supercell moved off the lake and produced large hail in Coloma, with other storms forming and congealing into a line that produced some wind damage in the Bronson area.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 8
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS IWX wrote it up.
A frontal boundary and upper level disturbance interacted with an unstable atmosphere to allow thunderstorms to develop across southern Lake Michigan into southern Lower Michigan. A supercell moved off the lake and produced large hail in Coloma, with other storms forming and congealing into a line that produced some wind damage in the Bronson area.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Apr 25, 6:49 PM EST, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 6:49 PM EST, 1 hour 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 749 PM EDT MON APR 25 2016 .SYNOPSIS... ISSUED AT 319 PM EDT MON APR 25 2016 INCREASING SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS WILL HELP DRAW IN WARMER AND INCREASINGLY HUMID AIR TO HELP SET THE STAGE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY DURING THE EVENING HOURS. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE. LOWS TONIGHT WILL RANGE FORM THE LOWER 50S NEAR LAKE MICHIGAN TO THE MIDDLE AND UPPER 50S ELSEWHERE. TEMPERATURES WILL RISE LITTLE ALONG THE LAKESHORE AREAS ON TUESDAY BUT SHOULD REACH WELL INTO THE 60S TO LOWER 70S FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA. && .SHORT TERM...(THIS EVENING THROUGH TUESDAY) ISSUED AT 319 PM EDT MON APR 25 2016 FOCUS OF SHORT TERM WILL BE ON CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. PARTLY TO MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES AND INCREASING SOUTHERLY WINDS HAVE ALLOWED TEMPERATURES TO CLIMB WELL INTO THE 70S AND PUSH 80 IN SOME LOCATIONS. DEWPOINTS ARE STEADILY INCREASING AS WELL...NOW INTO THE MIDDLE 50S WITH 58 TO 62 DEGREE DEWPOINTS OFF TO THE WEST. LOW PRESSURE WAS CENTERED OVER SE MINNESOTA WITH A WARM FRONT INTO SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN AND COLD FRONT BACK IN EASTERN IOWA. CONVECTIVE INITIATION EXPECTED TO COMMENCE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS ACROSS NORTHERN ILLINOIS/SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND MOVE EAST AND SOUTH INTO THIS EVENING. EXACTLY HOW THE CONVECTION EVOLVES FROM THERE REMAINS A CHALLENGE AS HI RES MODELS SHOW DIFFERENCES IN TIMING AND INTENSITY. LAST SEVERAL RUNS OF HRRR HAVE BEEN MOST AGGRESSIVE AND FASTEST WITH INITIAL CELLS CONGEALING INTO LINE OF STORMS...POSSIBLY SEVERE WHICH ARRIVES AROUND OR SHORTLY AFTER 00Z AND PROGRESSES THROUGH THE AREA. RAP/NMM MORE FOCUS ON THE WARM FRONT AND KEEP ACTIVITY MORE SCATTERED AND FURTHER NORTH. NAM/NAM 4KM SHOW SOME SIMILARITY TO HRRR BUT SLOWER AND LESS ROBUST. GRIDS WERE UPDATED TO LIMIT PRECIP POTENTIAL UNTIL AFTER 21Z WITH LITTLE IN THE WAY OF FORCING MECHANISMS AROUND TO HELP USE THE LIMITED INSTABILITY. SHEAR PROFILES DO INCREASE THIS EVENING...BUT INSTABILITY WILL BE ON THE DECREASE. MID LEVEL JET WILL BE IMPINGING ON THE CONVECTION WITH SOME HINTS OF A SMALL EML THROUGH EARLY EVENING BEFORE BEING LOST. HAVE REMOVED THE SMALL AREA OF CATEGORICAL POPS AND WENT WITH SOME ATTEMPT TO TIME OUT ANY CONVECTION WITH HIGH CHC TO LIKELY POPS. PRECIP MAY LINGER LONGEST IN THE SE BUT WILL LIKELY BE WEAKENING BY THIS POINT. TRIED TO LIMIT SOUTHERN EXTENT OF THE CONVECTION WITH LOCATIONS SOUTH OF US-24 POSSIBLY NOT SEEING MUCH. FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL LINGER TO THE SOUTH OF THE AREA WITH POTENTIAL FOR A FEW SHOWERS AND STORMS IN FAR S/SE AREAS INTO TUESDAY AFTERNOON. SHOULDN'T BE ANYTHING TO WORRY ABOUT WITH GREATER SEVERE THREAT SOUTH AND ESPECIALLY WELL SOUTHWEST OF THE AREA. COOL DAY IN STORE ALONG THE LAKE WITH HIGHS IN THE MIDDLE 50S VS MIDDLE 60S TO MIDDLE 70S INLAND. && .LONG TERM...(TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY) ISSUED AT 319 PM EDT MON APR 25 2016 TWO PRIMARY CHANCES OF RAIN DURING THIS LONG TERM PERIOD AS PAIR OF DEEP WESTERN CONUS TROUGHS EJECT EASTWARD. THE FIRST IS CURRENTLY CLOSING OFF OVER NEVADA. AS THIS PV ANOMALY MOVES INTO OUR REGION ON WED...TIGHTENING BAROCLINIC ZONE/FGEN WILL SET UP OVER THE SOUTHERN GREAT LAKES. GOOD CROSS-ISOBAR FLOW AND MOISTURE ADVECTION ON THE 300K SURFACE WITH MIXING RATIOS AROUND 8 G/KG. PW VALUES ALSO CLIMB TO AROUND 1.2 INCHES BY LATE WEDNESDAY. THETA-E SURGE IN PRESENCE OF GOOD ISENTROPIC ASCENT AND INCREASING CVA WILL LIKELY LEAD TO NUM SHOWERS LATE WED INTO THURS. ADDED A BIT MORE TEMPORAL DETAIL TO POP FORECAST...SLOWING DOWN ARRIVAL AND INCREASING TO CATEGORICAL WED NIGHT BASED ON GOOD AGREEMENT IN 12Z MODEL SUITE. DID KEEP IN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDER BUT PLACEMENT OF FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL KEEP SURFACE-BASED INSTABILITY LOCKED TO OUR SOUTH AND ELEVATED INSTABILITY LOOKS PRETTY MEAGER BASED ON FORECAST SOUNDINGS. MIDLEVEL VORT LOBE WILL EXIT EARLY FRIDAY MORNING WITH DRY CONDITIONS FRI INTO EARLY SAT. ROUND TWO (POTENTIALLY) ARRIVES IN SIMILAR FASHION LATE SAT INTO SUNDAY...AND POSSIBLY MONDAY. MODEL AGREEMENT REMAINS POOR THOUGH WITH LATEST GFS KEEPING SURFACE LOW AND ALL PRECIP WELL SOUTH OF OUR AREA. CONTINUED WITH CONSENSUS CHANCE POPS FOR NOW GIVEN IT IS AT THE VERY END OF THIS FORECAST PERIOD. TEMPS THROUGH THIS WEEK WILL BE SLIGHTLY BELOW AVERAGE FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR...THOUGH NOT PARTICULARLY COLD AND FROST POTENTIAL APPEARS LOW. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z TUESDAY EVENING) ISSUED AT 747 PM EDT MON APR 25 2016 CONDL TS THREAT STILL EXISTS THIS EVENING AS IMPULSE OVR NRN WI CONTS EWD. HWVR SO FAR SCT ACTIVITY HAS BEEN CONFINED TO NEWD ARC OF RTN LL THETA-E RIDGE. THIS IS XPCD TO FOLD EWD THROUGH MID EVENING COMMENSURATE W/CONTD VEERING OF LL FLW AND SHLD SPRT CONTD UPSTREAM STORM DVLPMNT/INTENSIFICATION THROUGH MID EVENING HWVR TIMING ADJUSTMENTS TWD RECENT RAP GUIDANCE WERE FOLLOWED. REGARDLESS PRIMARILY VFR CONDS XPCD THROUGH THE PD. SOMEWHAT BTR SATURATION/POOLED LL MSTR XPCD INVOF KFWA TWD MORNING AS FNTL BNDRY STALLS THROUGH CNTRL IN W/A PD OF MVFR CIG RESTRICTION PLAUSIBLE. && .IWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. MI...NONE. OH...NONE. LM...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...FISHER SHORT TERM...FISHER LONG TERM...AGD AVIATION...T VISIT US AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/IWX FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK...TWITTER...AND YOUTUBE AT: WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/NWSNORTHERNINDIANA WWW.TWITTER.COM/NWSIWX WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/NWSNORTHERNINDIANA
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 25, 12:21 PM EST, 8 hours 9 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 121 PM EDT MON APR 25 2016 INZ003>009-012>017-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-261730- LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB-STARKE- PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY-BERRIEN-CASS MI- ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND... MISHAWAKA...NEW CARLISLE...WALKERTON...ELKHART...GOSHEN...NAPPANEE... LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...SHIPSHEWANA...ANGOLA...FREMONT...KENDALLVILLE... LIGONIER...ALBION...AUBURN...GARRETT...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON... BASS LAKE...WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...MEDARYVILLE...PLYMOUTH... BREMEN...CULVER...ROCHESTER...AKRON...WARSAW...WINONA LAKE... SYRACUSE...MENTONE...COLUMBIA CITY...TRI-LAKES...SOUTH WHITLEY... NILES...BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...FAIR PLAIN...BENTON HEIGHTS... BUCHANAN...PAW PAW LAKE...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...MARCELLUS... STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...WHITE PIGEON...MENDON...COLDWATER... BRONSON...HILLSDALE...JONESVILLE...LITCHFIELD...BRYAN...MONTPELIER... EDGERTON...WAUSEON...ARCHBOLD...SWANTON...DELTA 121 PM EDT MON APR 25 2016 /1221 PM CDT MON APR 25 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN INDIANA... SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN AND NORTHWEST OHIO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. A FEW STORMS MAY BE SEVERE. DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL ARE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY AND AGAIN SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX INZ018-020-022>027-032>034-OHZ004-005-015-016-024-025-261730- ALLEN IN-WHITE-CASS IN-MIAMI-WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT- BLACKFORD-JAY-DEFIANCE-HENRY-PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT-ALLEN OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FORT WAYNE...NEW HAVEN...MONTICELLO... MONON...BROOKSTON...LOGANSPORT...ROYAL CENTER...PERU...GRISSOM AFB... MEXICO...WABASH...NORTH MANCHESTER...HUNTINGTON...ROANOKE... BLUFFTON...OSSIAN...DECATUR...BERNE...MARION...GAS CITY...UPLAND... HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...DUNKIRK...DEFIANCE... SHERWOOD...HICKSVILLE...NAPOLEON...DESHLER...LIBERTY CENTER... PAULDING...ANTWERP...PAYNE...OTTAWA...LEIPSIC...COLUMBUS GROVE... CONTINENTAL...PANDORA...VAN WERT...OHIO CITY...LIMA...SPENCERVILLE 121 PM EDT MON APR 25 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHERN INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. A FEW STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE AND AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CANNOT BE RULED OUT. DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL WOULD BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AFTERNOON...WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...AND AGAIN SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED BUT IS NOT LIKELY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX LMZ043-046-261730- NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI- 121 PM EDT MON APR 25 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY CONDITIONS HAZARDOUS TO SMALL CRAFT MAY DEVELOP TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...AND AGAIN SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 100 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:31 UTC.
Event by event
6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Berrien
- When
- April 25, 8:30 PM EST to 8:31 PM EST
- Where
- Berrien County, 0.86 mi NE of Lake Michigan Beach
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 42.230, -86.370
Hail, Berrien
- When
- April 25, 8:40 PM EST to 8:41 PM EST
- Where
- Berrien County, 0.86 mi SW of Watervliet Arpt
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Broadcast Media
- Coordinates
- 42.190, -86.260
Hail, Cass
- When
- April 25, 9:19 PM EST to 9:20 PM EST
- Where
- Cass County, 0.51 mi E of Marcellus
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 42.030, -85.810
Hail, Cass
- When
- April 25, 9:20 PM EST to 9:21 PM EST
- Where
- Cass County, 0.69 mi N of Marcellus
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 42.040, -85.820
Hail, St. Joseph
- When
- April 25, 10:05 PM EST to 10:06 PM EST
- Where
- St. Joseph County, Leonidas
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 42.020, -85.350
Thunderstorm Wind, Branch
- When
- April 25, 10:20 PM EST to 10:21 PM EST
- Where
- Branch County, 0.51 mi W of Sherwood
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 42.000, -85.240
Emergency management officials reported both a tree and power line were blown down.
Thunderstorm Wind, Branch
- When
- April 25, 11:20 PM EST to 11:21 PM EST
- Where
- Branch County, 0.86 mi SW of Bronson Arpt
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 41.870, -85.190
Emergency management officials reported several trees were uprooted, with large tree limbs also broken. At least 1 parked car and a residence were impacted by falling trees limbs. A small shed was also destroyed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Dust Storm in Arizona, April 25, 2016
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- Hail in Texas, April 25, 2016
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Puerto Rico, April 25 to 27, 2016
- Hail in Wisconsin, April 25, 2016
- Hail in Illinois, April 25, 2016
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, April 25 to 27, 2016
- High Wind in Arizona, April 25, 2016
- Tornado and Hail in Colorado, April 25, 2016
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, April 25, 2016
- High Wind and Strong Wind in New Mexico, April 25, 2016
- High Wind in California, April 25, 2016
More
Every storm in Michigan in 2016Every state in 2016This day in weather historyWarnings in Michigan, April 2016
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 626314, 626315, 626316, 626317, 626318, 626319, 626322, 626323.