Special Weather Statement
NWS Northern Indiana ยท US
New
Details
A Strong Thunderstorm Will Impact Southwestern Elkhart... Southeastern St. Joseph...Northwestern Kosciusko...East Central Starke And Northern Marshall Counties Through 715 PM EDT/615 PM CDT/
- Event
- Special Weather Statement
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Moderate
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Execute
Description
Overview
At 627 PM EDT/527 PM CDT/, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Koontz Lake, or near Plymouth, moving northeast at 30 mph.
Hazard
Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Plymouth, Nappanee, Bremen, Koontz Lake, Locke, La Paz, Donaldson, Linkville, Lake Of The Woods, Wyatt, Tyner, and Grovertown.
Instructions
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Affected areas
- Elkhart County, IN
- Starke County, IN
- Marshall County, IN
- Eastern St. Joseph
- Northern Kosciusko
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~1m0s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2KJY99E36KB33M7G88CP9W6
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.3110f5f7d0afe826b0535ab5cf5ba9a2fd48cb30.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Northern Indiana
- AWIPS ID
- CAPIWX
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.7143
- WMO heading
- XOUS53
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 53
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | SPS |
| NationalWeatherService | SPS |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | SPSIWX |
| WMOidentifier | WWUS83 KIWX 152227 |
| NWSheadline | A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHWESTERN ELKHART... SOUTHEASTERN ST. JOSEPH...NORTHWESTERN KOSCIUSKO...EAST CENTRAL STARKE AND NORTHERN MARSHALL COUNTIES THROUGH 715 PM EDT/615 PM CDT/ |
| eventMotionDescription | 2026-09-15T22:27:00-00:00...storm...240DEG...26KT...41.38,-86.42 |
| maxWindGust | 50 MPH |
| maxHailSize | 0.25 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Elkhart County, IN
- Starke County, IN
- Marshall County, IN
- Eastern St. Joseph
- Northern Kosciusko
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 018039 |
| SAME | 018149 |
| SAME | 018099 |
| SAME | 018141 |
| SAME | 018085 |
| UGC | INZ005 |
| UGC | INZ012 |
| UGC | INZ014 |
| UGC | INZ104 |
| UGC | INZ116 |
- Polygons
- 41.31,-86.49 41.4,-86.51 41.58,-86.13 41.41,-85.94 41.31,-86.49