Tornadoes are not common but funnel clouds are sighted more regularly. Most tornadoes produce F0 to F1 damage with more devastating types rare. Northeast Indiana was affected by both the 1965 Palm Sunday Outbreak and the 1974 Superoutbreak. Six inch or greater snowfalls usually only occur once per season. Lake effect snows, by the time they get this far east of Lake Michigan, are often in the form of flurries or scattered light snow showers.
Lake effect snows from Lake Erie are very rare.
The most likely month for heavy snow if January. Typically the last snow of the season is in mid-April with the first snow of the autumn around the first of November. Freezing precipitation events are not uncommon but major storms are usually several years apart. Dense fog is most common in the spring when warm air masses ride over melting snowpack. High winds exceed 50 mph once or twice a year.