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Special Weather Statement, NWS Quad Cities, IA

April 25, 2012Hancock County, Illinois; Clark County, Missouri

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this special weather statement at Apr 25, 2012, 9:28 PM CDT for Hancock County, Illinois; Clark County, Missouri. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 25, 2012, 9:28 PM CDT (02:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2012, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA

Counties Hancock County, IL, Clark County, MO

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 25, 6:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 6:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 25, 3:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
342 PM CDT WED APR 25 2012

IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007-
009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-261000-
BENTON IA-BUCHANAN IA-BUREAU IL-CARROLL IL-CEDAR IA-CLARK MO-
CLINTON IA-DELAWARE IA-DES MOINES IA-DUBUQUE IA-HANCOCK IL-
HENDERSON IL-HENRY IA-HENRY IL-IOWA IA-JACKSON IA-JEFFERSON IA-
JO DAVIESS IL-JOHNSON IA-JONES IA-KEOKUK IA-LEE IA-LINN IA-LOUISA IA-
MCDONOUGH IL-MERCER IL-MUSCATINE IA-PUTNAM IL-ROCK ISLAND IL-
SCOTLAND MO-SCOTT IA-STEPHENSON IL-VAN BUREN IA-WARREN IL-
WASHINGTON IA-WHITESIDE IL-
342 PM CDT WED APR 25 2012

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...TONIGHT

THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO
MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH MID EVENING. THERE
IS STILL A LINGERING LOW CHANCE FOR A STRONG TO SEVERE STORM TO
DEVELOP THIS EVENING EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER...BUT LATEST
INDICATIONS SUGGEST THE BEST CHANCE FOR STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL
OCCUR TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE POSSIBLE NEXT TUESDAY. IT IS TOO SOON TO
DETERMINE THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

THERE IS LOW CHANCE FOR THE NEED OF SPOTTER ACTIVATION THIS EVENING
EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 25, 6:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Van Buren	61 min
Apr 25, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Lee	54 min
Apr 25, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Hancock	39 min
Apr 26, 3:41 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	DVN	Carroll, Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Whiteside	16 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Illinois, 2012 Special Weather Statements in Missouri, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.