Click on the map of Indiana to enlarge it. With more realistic borders than the template I made to use in previous weather posts, the original blank map used in this graphic was made by Daniel Dalet of d-maps.com (click on the link to see the original image).A Blizzard Warning stretches like an arch over Northern Kansas, NW Missouri, SE Nebraska, Iowa, SE Minnesota, JO DAVIESS county in Illinois (county in the far northwest corner of the state) and Southern Wisconsin. These states, along with Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and mountainous parts of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and three counties in Western New York, have all sorts of winter weather advisories, watches, and warnings.
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The most severe advisory in Indiana would be the WINTER STORM WARNING for the counties of ELKHART, LAPORTE, and SAINT JOSEPH in Northern Indiana (they are pink on the map). As projected by NWS Northern Indiana, these counties will accumulate 2 to 4 inches of snow (and maybe more if there is additional Lake Effect snow) until Friday night. Also, possible wind gusts from 35 to 45 mph - and even more along the lakefront - would cause lower visibility. This warning also includes counties in Michigan that are along the Lake Michigan shoreline: ALLEGAN, BERRIEN, CASS, MUSKEGON, OTTAWA, VAN BUREN, etc. LAKE and PORTER counties are under a LAKESHORE FLOOD WARNING (shown as green dots with white outline) and a Winter Storm Watch. The counties of Northern and Central Indiana, shown in regular blue, are under a Winter Weather Advisory. These areas are not under a warning because the winds will not as strong (but still pretty strong, from 25-35 mph of sustained winds and possible higher wind gusts) and the snow accumulation will be less. A High Wind Watch, with winds from 30-40 mph and gusts up to a whopping 60 mph that can minorly damage property, is issued by NWS Chicago for BENTON, JASPER, and NEWTON counties, along with FORD, IROQUOIS, KANKAKEE, and LIVINGSTON in Illinois. The Wind Advisory for Southern Indiana means that there will be winds from 20-35 mph with gusts up to 50 mph, according to NWS Indianapolis.
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