Weather Alerts For Lexa, AR

Closest strike: 5.4 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 A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY INTO THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AND PARTS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC SUMMARY Scattered severe storms remains possible this evening within the Tennessee Valley into the Mid-Atlantic. Damaging winds will be the primary risk, though a couple of tornadoes could occur with the most organized storms. Synopsis A notable shortwave tough will continue moving through the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast into tonight. Convective overturning from earlier this afternoon has stabilized much of Pennsylvania/New York into New England. Forcing for ascent from the shortwave trough and the surface cold front will allow for isolated activity to persist tonight. Wind damage remains possible. An MCV is evident in northern Virginia. This will continue to promote storm development into parts of the Mid-Atlantic. Earlier activity has reduced buoyancy, but flow fields will increase as the trough continues to approach. Wind damage will continue to be the main threat, though a couple of tornadoes could occur with the strongest storms. MLCAPE of 3000+ J/kg is still present within the Tennessee Valley vicinity. A cluster of storms north of Nashville will pose the greatest risk for damaging winds as it tracks southward into the instability axis. Other strong to severe storms may impact parts of the eastern Great Basin. Severe wind gusts are the concern in that region.