Weather Alerts For McGehee, AR

Closest strike: 9.16 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 ACROSS PORTIONS OF MINNESOTA AND WESTERN WISCONSIN SUMMARY Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms may produce gusty winds today across parts of the Upper Midwest, central Plains, from Texas into portions of the Southeast, and across parts of the Sierra into the northern Great Basin. 20z Update MN/WI Severe potential remains evident this afternoon and evening across the upper MS Valley. Despite modest buoyancy, anomalously strong deep-layer flow and steep low-level lapse rates will promote splitting supercell structures across parts of MN and WI. This will support a risk for hail and damaging gusts with the strongest storms. Have adjusted the 15% hail probabilities further north for the latest radar trends. See MCD#1200 and Severe Thunderstorm Watch #355 for additional details. NC/VA The circulation associated with remnants of former TC Arthur have moved offshore and severe potential has decreased. Severe probabilities were removed. Southeast A broad area of thunderstorms is ongoing along a diffuse frontal zone from east TX across the Gulf Coast States. Occasional downbursts remain possible with stronger multicell clusters through this evening, given large buoyancy and the high PWAT air mass. Vertical shear is minimal and broader storm organization is not expected. Have adjusted the 5% wind probabilities slightly to better capture ongoing storms. No other changes were made to the outlook. See the prior discussion for more information.