Alert archive / Iowa / Ice Storm Warnings in 2006
Ice Storm Warning 1, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this ice storm warning at Feb 16, 2006, 4:32 AM CST for 8 counties in Iowa; Carroll County, Jo Daviess County, Stephenson County, Illinois. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 2006, 4:32 AM CST (10:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2006, 11:28 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
Counties Cedar County, IA, Clinton County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Washington County, IA, Carroll County, IL, Jo Daviess County, IL, Stephenson County, IL
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this ice storm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this ice storm warning went out at Feb 16, 3:39 AM CST, 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 3:39 AM CST, 53 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 15, 5:21 AM CST, 23 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 521 AM CST WED FEB 15 2006 IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007- 009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-161130- BUCHANAN-DELAWARE-DUBUQUE-BENTON-LINN-JONES-JACKSON-IOWA-JOHNSON- CEDAR-CLINTON-MUSCATINE-SCOTT-KEOKUK-WASHINGTON-LOUISA-JEFFERSON- HENRY IA-DES MOINES-VAN BUREN-LEE-JO DAVIESS-STEPHENSON-CARROLL- WHITESIDE-ROCK ISLAND-HENRY IL-BUREAU-PUTNAM-MERCER-HENDERSON- WARREN-HANCOCK-MCDONOUGH-SCOTLAND-CLARK- 521 AM CST WED FEB 15 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS...NORTHWEST ILLINOIS...WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...EAST CENTRAL IOWA...NORTHEAST IOWA...SOUTHEAST IOWA AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A WINTER STORM WILL OVERSPREAD THE AREA TONIGHT AND A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE OUTLOOK AREA FOR TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY EVENING. MIXED PRECIPITATION IN THE FORM OF FREEZING RAIN...SLEET AND LIGHT SNOW IS EXPECTED THIS EVENING. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF LESS THAN ONE INCH...ALONG WITH LIGHT ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED NORTH OF HIGHWAY 30. FROM THERE SOUTH TO HIGHWAY 34...MIXED FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET MAY FORM A THIN COATING OF ICE IN THE EVENING...BEFORE CHANGING OVER TO INTERMITTENT LIGHT FREEZING DRIZZLE OVERNIGHT. IN THE FAR SOUTH...PRECIPITATION WILL BE MAINLY IN THE FORM OF LIGHT RAIN OR DRIZZLE AND NO ICE IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE CENTER OF A WINTER STORM WILL PASS SOUTH DURING THE DAY...RESULTING IN WINTRY MIX ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS BY THURSDAY EVENING ARE EXPECTED TO TOTAL 6 TO 8 INCHES NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM WILLIAMSBURG IOWA TO FREEPORT ILLINOIS. AS WINDS PICK DURING THE AFTERNOON...THERE WILL BE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW RESULTING IN POOR VISIBILITY. SOUTH OF THIS AXIS...CONSIDERABLE FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET IS EXPECTED THURSDAY MORNING...CHANGING OVER TO SNOW IN THE AFTERNOON. ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF A QUARTER OR MORE WILL BE POSSIBLE...ROUGHLY BETWEEN HIGHWAYS 34 AND 30 IN THE MORNING. THIS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY AFTERNOON SNOW ACCUMULATIONS FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES. BITTER COLD TEMPERATURES WILL FOLLOW OVER THE WEEKEND...WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE SINGLE DIGITS BELOW ZERO NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... REPORTS OF ICE AND SNOW ACCUMULATIONS BY SPOTTERS WOULD BE APPRECIATED TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. SHEETS
Nearby
Ice Storm Warnings in Iowa, 2006Ice Storm Warnings in Illinois, 2006Every ice storm warning in 2006
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.