Michigan NWS Weather Alerts — Warnings, Watches & Advisories
NWS alerts tracks Active NWS warnings, watches, and advisories across Michigan, including tornado, severe storm, winter weather, flood, heat, and air-quality alerts. The reading is aggregated by Michigan Gateway from National Weather Service (NWS) · Detroit-Pontiac (DTX), Grand Rapids (GRR), Gaylord (APX), Marquette (MQT), an authoritative public source, and refreshed automatically throughout the day.
For Michigan residents this indicator is one of several environmental-hazard signals that inform day-to-day decisions — from whether it's safe to be outdoors to whether a specific community needs additional attention. Combined with the other environment indicators listed at the bottom of this page, it helps residents, journalists, and county officials build a fuller picture of current conditions in Michigan.
The current reading for this indicator updates live on the
Michigan Gateway dashboard.
The data feed below is fetched from National Weather Service (NWS) · Detroit-Pontiac (DTX), Grand Rapids (GRR), Gaylord (APX), Marquette (MQT) via the
public /api/alerts endpoint.
The NWS issues three urgency levels: Advisory (inconvenient, e.g. dense fog), Watch (favorable conditions, take action soon), and Warning (event imminent or occurring, take protective action now). Michigan has four NWS forecast offices — DTX (Detroit/Pontiac), GRR (Grand Rapids), APX (Gaylord), MQT (Marquette) — each covering a slice of the state.
- Tornado Warning: go to lowest interior room, away from windows, kneel down and cover your head.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning: get inside; lightning is the #1 killer in MI thunderstorms.
- Winter Storm Warning: avoid travel; if you must drive, keep blankets and food in the car.
- Get free phone alerts: enable Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) in Settings → Notifications.