Slight risk of severe weather all weekend

Convective outlook map

Parts of northern Indiana are at risk of severe weather between 12:30 p.m. EDT today and 8 a.m. EDT tomorrow, according to the Day 1 Convective Outlook that the National Weather Service (NWS) Storm Prediction Center (SPC) at 12:24 EDT today. Other parts have the same level of risk between 8 a.m. tomorrow (Sunday) and 8 a.m. Monday. Today’s slight risk area includes all but the easternmost counties of Indiana. In IMO SKYWARN quadrant two, today’s slight risk area includes all or part of the following counties: Whitley, Huntington and Blackford. Other counties in the area can expect thunderstorms but have an insignificant risk of severe weather today and tonight. The main risk today is for a few storms in the slight risk area to become well enough organized to create damaging straight-line winds. The highest chance of severe weather today, however, is west of Indiana.

Tomorrow is a different story.

Convective outlook map

A slight risk area includes all Indiana and Ohio counties in IMO SKYWARN quadrant two, plus a large part of east central Indiana and western Ohio, according to the Day 2 Convective Outlook the SPC issued at 1:31 a.m. EDT today. Morning storms in the area could bring damaging winds an possibly a tornado.