Special Weather Statement
NWS Northern Indiana ยท US
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Strong Thunderstorms Will Impact Southwestern Elkhart... Northwestern Wabash...Southeastern St. Joseph...Eastern Pulaski... Kosciusko...Fulton...Northeastern Cass...Northwestern Miami And Marshall Counties Through 1000 AM EDT
- Event
- Special Weather Statement
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Moderate
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Execute
Description
Overview
At 913 AM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from Bremen to near Argos to near Winamac. Movement was east at 45 mph.
Hazard
Wind gusts up to 40 mph.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include... Warsaw, Plymouth, Nappanee, Rochester, Winona Lake, Bremen, Winamac, Bourbon, Argos, Milford, Culver, Akron, North Webster, Pierceton, Mentone, Mexico, Walnut, Tippecanoe, Silver Lake, and Kewanna.
Instructions
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
Affected areas
- Elkhart County, IN
- Pulaski County, IN
- Marshall County, IN
- Fulton County, IN
- Cass County, IN
- Miami County, IN
- Wabash County, IN
- Eastern St. Joseph
- Northern Kosciusko
- Southern Kosciusko
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~31s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2QR0EJK4NC2E6SVMF6WNK5X
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.289a951a628fa9bb1bbb17834b4c3ee431fd7305.001.1
- 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.1887
- 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 171313 |
| NWSheadline | STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT SOUTHWESTERN ELKHART... NORTHWESTERN WABASH...SOUTHEASTERN ST. JOSEPH...EASTERN PULASKI... KOSCIUSKO...FULTON...NORTHEASTERN CASS...NORTHWESTERN MIAMI AND MARSHALL COUNTIES THROUGH 1000 AM EDT |
| eventMotionDescription | 2026-09-17T13:13:00-00:00...storm...291DEG...38KT...41.46,-86.16 41.21,-86.29 41.02,-86.6 |
| maxWindGust | 40 MPH |
| maxHailSize | 0.00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Elkhart County, IN
- Pulaski County, IN
- Marshall County, IN
- Fulton County, IN
- Cass County, IN
- Miami County, IN
- Wabash County, IN
- Eastern St. Joseph
- Northern Kosciusko
- Southern Kosciusko
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 018039 |
| SAME | 018131 |
| SAME | 018099 |
| SAME | 018049 |
| SAME | 018017 |
| SAME | 018103 |
| SAME | 018169 |
| SAME | 018141 |
| SAME | 018085 |
| UGC | INZ005 |
| UGC | INZ013 |
| UGC | INZ014 |
| UGC | INZ015 |
| UGC | INZ022 |
| UGC | INZ023 |
| UGC | INZ024 |
| UGC | INZ104 |
| UGC | INZ116 |
| UGC | INZ216 |
- Polygons
- 41.17,-86.52 41.17,-86.47 41.21,-86.47 41.25,-86.4 41.53,-86.19 41.35,-85.65 41.04,-85.78 40.8,-86.19 41.02,-86.76 41.17,-86.52