Weather Alerts For Walker, MI

# HEADLINE -------------------- Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of Kent, Ottawa, Ionia, Gratiot, Clinton and Montcalm Counties through 230 AM EDT # SUMMARY -------------------- At 102 AM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from near Allendale through Rockford to near Stanton. Movement was east at 30 mph. # DETAILS -------------------- HAZARD Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail. SOURCE Radar indicated. IMPACT Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE Grand Rapids... Holland... Ionia... Grand Haven... Alma... Greenville... St. Johns... Portland... Ithaca... Stanton... Wyoming... Kentwood... Walker... Grandville... East Grand Rapids... Grand Ledge... St. Louis... Hudsonville... Belding... Rockford... ISSUED AT Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 1:05 AM EDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service Grand Rapids MI HEADER Special Weather Statement # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms. Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe shelter inside a building or vehicle. # AREAS AFFECTED -------------------- Clinton MI, Gratiot MI, Ionia MI, Kent MI, Montcalm MI, Ottawa MI

Closest strike: 2.81 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: 8.1 Pollen Level: medium-high Predominant Pollen: Grass and Mulberry. Concentration of pollen grains in the air for Sunday will be falling in the moderate range. This change results in part from falling temperatures and expected precipitation in the morning and evening which tends to wash pollen out of the air. That's good news for allergy sufferers.