Expires:201701170915;Remove:201701170915;283688 FPUS73 KIWX 170837 NOWIWX Short Term Forecast National Weather Service Northern Indiana 337 AM EST TUE JAN 17 2017 INZ003>005-MIZ077-078-170915- St. Joseph-La Porte-Elkhart-Berrien-Cass- 337 AM EST TUE JAN 17 2017 .NOW... At 335 AM EST/235 AM CST/, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms along a line extending from 13 miles northwest of Shorewood-Tower Hill to near North Liberty, moving northeast at 40 mph. Occasional lightning strikes and brief heavy rainfall of up to a half inch in under an hour are expected. Some ponding of water on roadways is likely as the storms move through the area. Locations impacted include... South Bend, Elkhart, Mishawaka, Niles, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, Dowagiac, Buchanan, Georgetown, Simonton Lake, Benton Heights, Gulivoire Park, Granger, Fair Plain, Dunlap, Osceola, Bridgman, Walkerton, North Liberty and New Buffalo. This includes the following highways... INTERSTATE 196 between MILE MARKERs 0 and 7. INTERSTATE 80 IN INDIANA between MILE MARKERs 52 and 105. INTERSTATE 94 IN INDIANA near MILE MARKER 45. INTERSTATE 94 IN MICHIGAN between MILE MARKERs 0 and 42. $$ NWS