High Wind in Porter, Indiana

A 95-foot tall radio tower collapsed near Lincolnway and Yellowstone roads in Valparaiso. Large tree limbs were also reported down nearby.

A line of showers and embedded thunderstorms moved across northwest Indiana during the late morning and early afternoon of April 27th. On the back side of this precipitation, a wake low developed, producing wind gusts between as high as 60 mph, which blew down trees, tree limbs and power lines. Scattered thunderstorms moved across west central Indiana during the evening of April 27th producing isolated wind damage.