INDIANAPOLIS -- Central Indiana is experiencing severe weather Tuesday with Tornado and Severe Thunderstorm Warnings issued for several counties already. The National Weather Service issued a Tornado Warning for southeastern Howard County and northern Tipton County until 6:30 p.m. Grant County is also under a Tornado Warning until 7 p.m. NWS confirmed that its radars have detected signs of a possible rotation and urged local residents to shelter in place to avoid being struck by flying debris. The warning concluded by adding that mobile homes would be damaged or completely destroyed by the intense gusts and did not rule out damage to roofs, windows and vehicles. A portion of Indiana is also currently under a tornado watch, according to the Indianapolis office of the National Weather Service. Tracking rain and storms; severe threat late afternoon/evening A tornado watch was issued by the office at around 2:30 p.m. for portions of Indiana, as well as Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin until 9 p.m. The cities in Indiana that are under the watch include: Indianapolis Lafayette Terre Haute South Bend Other cities under the watch include Chicago, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Kalamazoo, Michigan and Springfield, Illinois. According to the office, a few tornados are "likely" under the watch and areas could see scattered hail up to tennis ball size. Scattered gusts of wind up to 70 mph is also possible under the watch. According to previous reports, large hail and damaging winds are expected to be the main threat for the Indianapolis area. Heavy storm approaching @HickoryStickGC just after 7pm Tuesday. Severe t-storm warning until 8pm #Inwx pic.twitter.com/ssSJDMzvic— Brian Wilkes (@BrianWilkes59wx) May 7, 2024 Holding our own! The environment is suitable for these individual cells to produce tornadoes, but at the time of this post (7pm) only reports of weak rotation. Earlier storms dropped 1"+ hail near Terre Haute.Heavy rain, and it is blinding over Indianapolis at this hour #INwx pic.twitter.com/ai9jWeeBBX— Brian Wilkes (@BrianWilkes59wx) May 7, 2024 Three individual storms have developed just before 5:30pm. Two currently have a severe t-storm warning on them. Watching the Boone county storm. Each has potential of severe weather. We are monitoring. #INwx pic.twitter.com/ZUjuP9lcTL— Brian Wilkes (@BrianWilkes59wx) May 7, 2024 Follow this liveblog for the latest weather developments: