Residents across northern Indiana and southwest Michigan spent Thursday evening monitoring the skies and seeking shelter as a powerful line of severe thunderstorms swept through the region, prompting multiple tornado warnings and severe weather alerts throughout Michiana.
The end result of the storms were multiple reports of structure damage and more than 28,000 Indiana Michigan Power customers losing electricity.
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The storms developed ahead of a strong cold front moving across the Midwest. The National Weather Service issued a series of tornado warnings as severe thunderstorms capable of producing tornadoes tracked across several counties in both Indiana and Michigan. Confirmed tornadoes were reported near Bristol in Elkhart County and near Kouts in Starke County. Tornadoes were also reported touching down in Porter County, Indiana.
In Michigan, tornado warnings were also issued for portions of Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph counties…