The western half of Allen County, Indiana is no longer in an area of slight risk for severe weather between 8 a.m. EDT tomorrow and 8 a.m. EDT Monday, according to the updated Day 2 Convective Outlook the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center issued at 1:40 p.m. EDT today. Under the updated outlook, the following Indiana counties in IMO SKYWARN quadrant two have a slight risk of severe weather tomorrow: eastern Allen, eastern Wells, Adams, eastern Blackford and Jay. All of the quadrant’s Ohio counties remain in the slight risk area.

Isolated damaging winds are possible in the slight risk area, especially during the afternoon and early evening. Forecasters also say they cannot rule out the risk of a tornado.

We will know much more about tomorrow’s severe weather risk when the SPC issues its first Day 1 Convective Outlook early tomorrow morning.

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.

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.

Yellow area: Slight risk of severe weather. Green area: Thunderstorms, but insignificant risk of severe weather.

Much of Indiana has a slight risk of severe weather tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 5, according to the Day 2 Convective Outlook that the National Weather Service (NWS) Storm Prediction Center (SPC) issued at 1:30 p.m. EDT today. The slight risk area includes all Indiana counties served by the northern Indiana NWS office, except Steuben, DeKalb, Allen, Adams, most of Jay and the eastern half of Wells. In IMO SKYWARN quadrant two, the slight risk area includes Whitley, Huntington, western Wells and Blackford Counties.

Forecasters expect lines of multiple thunderstorms to form during the afternoon tomorrow. The main threat is for damaging straight-line winds. Some hail is also possible as is a tornado.

We’ll know much more about the risk when SPC issues its Day 1 Convective Outlooks tomorrow, beginning at about 1 a.m. EDT. Meanwhile, if you have any outdoor activities planned tomorrow, it would be wise to have some means of receiving weather warnings and be prepared to curtail the activities should severe weather approach.

The NOAA Weather Radio transmitter in Fort Wayne returned to the air last evening, after a day of repair work at the tower site, according to a Public Information Statement the National Weather Service issued at 8:54 p.m. last night. The statement also indicated that additional work is needed and that the transmitter might therefore be periodically off the air again today.

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
953 PM EDT TUE OCT 1 2013 /853 PM CDT TUE OCT 1 2013/

...FORT WAYNE NOAA WEATHER RADIO WILL BE OFF THE AIR WEDNESDAY...

THE FORT WAYNE NOAA WEATHER RADIO TRANSMITTER WXJ-58 AT 162.550
MHZ WILL BE OFF THE AIR WEDNESDAY...OCTOBER 2...2013 WHILE THE
TRANSMITTER ANTENNA IS BEING REPLACED. THE RADIO IS EXPECTED TO BE
BACK ON THE AIR BY 8 PM WEDNESDAY EVENING.

AN ALTERNATE NOAA RADIO BROADCAST FOR THE FORT WAYNE AREA WILL BE
KXI-94 AT 162.425 MHZ FROM ANGOLA.

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Area to right of red line being monitored for thunderstorm intensification and potentially damaging wind gusts. Source: SPC MDC 1901.

Forecasters at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center expected a gradual intensification and eastward development of thunderstorm activity in extreme northeastern Indiana and in northwestern Ohio through the remainder of this afternoon, according to a mesoscale discussion they issued at 3:47 p.m. They did not expect that conditions would warrant a severe weather watch but the risk of potentially damaging wind gusts was not out of the question. The SPC indicated it would continue to monitor weather trends in the area.