Weather Alerts For Essexville, MI

Closest strike: 4.34 miles Stay Alert! Remain in a safe area until there has been no lightning within 10 miles of this location for 30 minutes. Please be aware that lightning activity can remain high even when a storm is moving away from your location. Even if rain has stopped, do not leave your safe area until WeatherBug indicates that lightning is more than 10 miles away from this selected location. IF OUTDOORS Avoid water, high ground, and open spaces. Avoid all metal objects including electric wires, fences, and machinery. Find a safe area in a building or in a fully enclosed vehicle with the windows completely shut. Unsafe places include underneath canopies, small picnic or rain shelters, convertibles, or near trees. IF INDOORS Avoid water and stay away from doors and windows. Avoid using a hard line telephone. Take off headphones. Turn off, unplug, and stay away from appliances, computers, power tools, and TV sets. Lightning may strike exterior electric and phone lines, inducing shocks to inside equipment.

There is a Marginal Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL/EASTERN KANSAS...WESTERN/CENTRAL MISSOURI...AND ADJACENT PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS SUMMARY Scattered severe thunderstorms will persist into the overnight hours from parts of the central and southern Plains to the Lower Missouri and Middle Mississippi Valleys. Swaths of damaging wind gusts, large hail, and a couple tornadoes are all possible. Central/Southern Plains into the Lower Missouri Valley Along a northeast/southwest-oriented cold front moving southeastward across central KS, an expansive band of upscale-growing convection will continue tracking southeastward into the overnight hours. Steep midlevel lapse rates atop a warm/moist boundary layer is yielding a corridor of strong surface-based buoyancy. This, combined with 40-50 kt of effective shear oriented oblique to the convective gust front, and a gradually strengthening low-level jet (evident in VWP data), will support a swath of severe wind gusts (some 75+ mph) with the MCS. The greatest concentration of severe wind gusts is expected across southeast KS and adjacent portions of northeastern OK and western MO -- where the ENH risk remains in place. Additionally, a couple embedded tornadoes cannot be ruled out, given the strengthening low-level jet/shear and moist boundary layer. Farther south, one dominant right-moving supercell is ongoing along a remnant outflow boundary in north-central OK. This storm will pose the greatest risk of large hail and some tornado risk in the near-term.

Pollen Index: 8.3 Pollen Level: medium-high Predominant Pollen: Grass and Sorrel/Dock. The amount of pollen in the air for Sunday will be falling in the moderate range. This decrease is due to rising humidity, weakening winds and expected precipitation in the morning, afternoon and evening which tends to wash pollen out of the air. With this amount of reduction in pollen levels, tomorrow should be better for allergy sufferers.