Weather Alerts For Battle Creek, MI

# HEADLINE -------------------- FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT # DETAILS -------------------- WHAT Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be possible. WHERE Portions of south central and southwest Michigan, including the following counties, in south central Michigan, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Ingham, Ionia and Jackson. In southwest Michigan, Allegan, Barry, Kalamazoo, Kent, Ottawa and Van Buren. WHEN Through late Thursday night. IMPACTS Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations. Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas. ADDITIONAL DETAILS - Additional rain expected tonight may continue to increase expected floods on area rivers. - http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood ISSUED AT Wednesday, April 15, 2026 at 2:17 PM EDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service Grand Rapids MI HEADER URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED | Flood Watch # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood Warnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared to take action should flooding develop. # AREAS AFFECTED -------------------- Kalamazoo, Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Ingham, Ionia, Jackson, Kent, Ottawa, Van Buren Including the cities of Jenison, Kalamazoo, Holland, Grand Haven, Charlotte, South Haven, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Jackson, Hastings, Ionia, Battle Creek, and St. Johns

Closest strike: 1.39 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 THIS EVENING IN A CORRIDOR FROM THE SOUTHEASTERN GREAT PLAINS THROUGH THE MIDWEST SUMMARY Potential for damaging wind gusts could still increase a bit with developing clusters of storms through mid to late evening across parts of the Midwest into the southeastern Great Plains, while also continuing with another cluster of storms spreading across northern portions of the Allegheny Plateau. 01Z Update Mid-level ridging centered near the south Atlantic Seaboard remains prominent, but is undergoing some suppression as at least a couple of short wave troughs migrate around its western through northern periphery. The most substantive of these waves is forecast to continue migrating northeast of the lower Missouri Valley through Wisconsin/Illinois by late tonight, accompanied by a modest downstream surface frontal wave. A vigorous jet streak associated with one or two lower amplitude downstream perturbations is forecast to propagate from the lee of the lower Great Lakes through southern New England. It appears that mid/upper troughing with embedded low-amplitude perturbations will linger across parts of the southern Great Plains. Peak afternoon destabilization along the dryline, from near its frontal intersection (roughly near/north of the Greater Kansas City area) southwestward into the Texas South Plains, is already waning. However, it appears that at least a narrow corridor of moderate residual boundary-layer instability in the warm sector to its east could may maintain vigorous convection and support continuing upscale convective growth into mid/late evening across parts of southeastern Oklahoma, western/northern Arkansas, central/eastern Missouri and central/northern Illinois. As this occurs, largely coincident with a northeastward propagating 30-40 kt southwesterly 850 mb jet, this may be accompanied by developing areas of increasing potential for damaging wind gusts and perhaps a few brief tornadoes, before convection weakens overnight.