It came through Kosciusko County quickly Friday evening, but it left damage and power outages behind in some areas.
Nathan Marsili, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Syracuse, said there was pretty strong evidence of Friday afternoon’s storm being a microburst. In a microburst, when lots of cold hail and rain come down in a thunderstorm, they can create some strong straight-line winds.
The NWS tracked the microburst from east of the Warsaw Municipal Airport to the Barbee Lakes and Pierceton areas, which is where Marsili said they had the most notable damage.
Until Friday, there had been no rain in the area for about the last three weeks. Marsili said there’s a good chance of rain Sunday and into Monday. Temperatures have been 10 to 13 degrees above normal for this time of year, but due to the impact of the clouds and rain, those temperatures should be dropping back to normal in the early part of next week.
In Barrington Hills in Warsaw Friday, a trampoline ended up in the power lines, causing a power outage.

    Storm damage after Friday’s microburst can be seen on Chapman Lake Drive, near C19 Lane, Warsaw. Photo by Tyler Huffer
  

A tree came down near Pierceton and caught fire after hitting utility wires.
In Valley Springs housing addition, trees galore lost leaves, limbs and some even broke apart.
Ami Pitt said, “We heard a lot of wind and then out of our front window - we have a large picture window - everything went white like fog, but it wasn’t fog. You could hear the rain and it was just a lot of wind.”
She had one of her grandchildren down for a nap, and she was considering looking at the radar, but they lost electricity and her phone wouldn’t pick up radar.
“I was just about to take the kids to the safe place in our home, and I could see it was starting to brighten up. So all of the wind lasted maybe 10-15 minutes. Maybe. Not very long, but it was a lot of wind. You could hear it, and at the back of the house I could hear everything hitting the house.”
Laura Gage, who lives on Blue Heron Drive, said she heard a lot of crackling.
“First, it was the hail. And then I started hearing crackling,” she said. “... And then just a lot of wind and a lot of hail, and just a mess. Just a mess.”
She and her husband were making a large pile of limbs and sticks in their back yard afterward.
All her neighbors had trees and limbs down, too. The Coopers, who live across from her, had a large tree that splintered apart, landing on a van and a basketball goal post.
“We have massive trees out here. Massive trees,” Gage said.
Her husband was out in the RV when the microburst came through. The only thing he heard was the hail. He looked outside and the trees were down.
“I think it was very strong winds,” Gage said.
Jan Schutz said she never saw wind like that before.
“It had to have been 80 miles an hour. It was just incredible,” John Schutz said.
Jan said the wind came from the east to the west, which they usually don’t get at her house. “It was just really windy. Early on today, it was kind of windy, just at one point, and we had a limb land on our back roof. The wind was so strong, it blew the limb clear off the roof,” she stated. “It was just weird. I’ve never seen a storm like that.”
John said he’s lived there almost 40 years and Friday’s storm had to be the top one or two that have came through there.
“It really was something. If not a tornado, it had to have been close,” he said. “Very little, if any, warning on the TV. We had no idea that this was coming.”