Special Weather Statement issued October 13 at 11:18PM EDT by NWS Northern Indiana
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At 1118 PM EDT/1018 PM CDT/, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from near Benton Heights to near Stevensville to 7 miles northwest of Long Beach. Movement was east at 45 mph. HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and half inch hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... South Bend, Michigan City, Niles, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, Dowagiac, Buchanan, Benton Heights, Fair Plain, Granger, Bridgman, New Buffalo, New Carlisle, Berrien Springs, Cassopolis, Watervliet, Three Oaks, Coloma, Marcellus, and Long Beach. This includes the following highways... Interstate 196 between mile markers 0 and 6. Interstate 80 in Indiana between mile markers 55 and 76. Interstate 94 in Indiana between mile markers 43 and 45. Interstate 94 in Michigan between mile markers 0 and 42. If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
- Event time
- Source last updated
- Current version retrieved
- Provider
- NWS — active weather alerts (Storm)
- Location
- US
- Severity
- Moderate
- area
- Northern La Porte; Eastern St. Joseph; Western St. Joseph; Cass; St. Joseph; Northern Berrien; Southern Berrien
- event
- Special Weather Statement
- onset
- 2026-10-13T23:18:00-04:00
- states
- ["IN","MI"]
- urgency
- Expected
- certainty
- Observed
- effective
- 2026-10-13T23:18:00-04:00
- message id
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.37039cc33c19f430c7bbc20ac1fba8bcd4e81df5.001.1
- references
- []
- instruction
- If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
- message type
- Alert
- freshness minutes
- 60
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