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Flood Watch 1, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this flood watch at Feb 19, 2014, 3:26 PM CST for 8 counties in Iowa; 10 counties in Illinois; Clark County, Scotland County, Missouri. It took effect at Feb 20, 2014, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 19, 2014, 3:26 PM CST (21:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 20, 2014, 3:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2014, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Des Moines County, IA, Henry County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Lee County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Scott County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Bureau County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Warren County, IL, Whiteside County, IL, Clark County, MO, Scotland County, MO
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 75 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Feb 19, 11:58 AM CST, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 19, 11:58 AM CST, 3 hours 28 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 19, 5:39 AM CST, 9 hours 47 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 539 AM CST WED FEB 19 2014 IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007- 009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-201100- 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- 539 AM CST WED FEB 19 2014 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 AN INTENSIFYING AND VERY STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING WIDESPREAD RAIN...EMBEDDED THUNDER...AND FOG THAT MAY BE DENSE...TO THE OUTLOOK AREA TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. WHILE NO SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT...A FEW MAY BE ABLE TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80. OF MORE OF A POTENTIAL IMPACT WILL BE SEASONABLY HIGH WIDESPREAD RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH...UP TO AN INCH AND A HALF...MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80 FROM MIDNIGHT THROUGH NOON THURSDAY. THIS KIND OF RAIN AMOUNTS...AT THIS TIME OF YEAR ON FROZEN GROUND...MAY RESULT IN SOME PONDING ISSUES...AND URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING. THERE MAY BE A LOWER RISK OF RIVER FLOODING DUE TO GENERALLY LOW RIVER LEVELS...BUT SMALLER ICED UP CREEKS MAY STILL COME OUT OF THEIR BANKS IN SOME LOCATIONS. THE THREAT OF ICE JAMMING WILL ALSO BE ON THE INCREASE ALONG SOME AREA RIVERS AND STREAMS LATE TONIGHT...AND ESPECIALLY ON THURSDAY. AS RAIN SPREADS UP NORTH OF HIGHWAY 30 AFTER MIDNIGHT...THERE IS A CHANCE THAT SOME OF IT WILL FALL AS FREEZING RAIN...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM DUBUQUE IOWA...TO STERLING ILLINOIS. TEMPERATURES HOVERING RIGHT AROUND FREEZING...AND THEN WARMING ABOVE FREEZING AFTER SUNRISE...MAY LIMIT THE ICE GLAZE POTENTIAL TO JUST A LIGHT COATING IN THESE AREAS. SOME LOCALIZED SLICK SPOTS MAY STILL DEVELOP HOWEVER...BEFORE TEMPERATURES RECOVER BACK ABOVE FREEZING. MOIST AIR FLOWING OVER SNOW COVER AND COLD GROUND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE AREAS OF FOG TONIGHT...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE DENSE AND REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO A QUARTER MILE OR LESS. AS THE RAIN INCREASES...IT WILL HELP REDUCE THE FOG. IN OTHER AREAS WITH LIGHTER RAIN OR DRIZZLE...THE FOG WILL LAST WELL INTO THURSDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WILL USHER IN COLDER AIR BEHIND THE DEPARTING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM...CHANGING ALL PRECIPITATION TO SNOW. AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS THAT 1 TO 4 INCHES OF SNOW IS LIKELY NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM OTTUMWA TO DUBUQUE. WINDS GUSTING OVER 45 MPH MAY RESULT IN BLOWING OF NEW SNOW...REDUCING VISIBILITIES BELOW A QUARTER MILE AT TIMES. NEAR WHITEOUT CONDITIONS MAY BE POSSIBLE IN OPEN AND RURAL AREAS. A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM CEDAR RAPIDS TO DUBUQUE IOWA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. 12/GROSS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 4:05 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Linn | 12 hr |
| Feb 19, 3:52 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Jones, Linn | 12 hr |
Nearby
Flood Watches in Illinois, 2014Flood Watches in Iowa, 2014Flood Watches in Missouri, 2014Every flood watch in 2014
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.