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Wind Advisory 2, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this wind advisory at Feb 28, 2016, 3:57 AM CST for 8 counties in Illinois; Des Moines County, Lee County, Iowa; Clark County, Scotland County, Missouri. It took effect at Feb 28, 2016, 8:00 AM CST. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 28, 2016, 3:57 AM CST (09:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 28, 2016, 8:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2016, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
Counties Des Moines County, IA, Lee County, IA, Bureau County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Warren County, IL, Clark County, MO, Scotland County, MO
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 2530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 365 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
647 WWUS73 KDVN 280957 NPWDVN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 357 AM CST SUN FEB 28 2016 ...STRONG GUSTY WINDS EXPECTED THROUGH 4PM TODAY... .STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL LEAD TO SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH OR GREATER FOR THE AREA WITH SOME GUSTS REACHING 45 MPH. IAZ089-099-ILZ016>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-281800- /O.NEW.KDVN.WI.Y.0002.160228T1400Z-160228T2200Z/ DES MOINES-LEE-HENRY IL-BUREAU-PUTNAM-MERCER-HENDERSON-WARREN- HANCOCK-MCDONOUGH-SCOTLAND-CLARK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BURLINGTON...FORT MADISON...KEWANEE... PRINCETON...HENNEPIN...ALEDO...OQUAWKA...MONMOUTH...CARTHAGE... MACOMB...MEMPHIS...KAHOKA 357 AM CST SUN FEB 28 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL BE COMMON ACROSS SOUTHEAST IOWA...NORTHEAST MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. * TIMING...8 AM THIS MORNING TO 4 PM SUNDAY AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS WILL CREATE DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON ACROSS THE AREA...ESPECIALLY ALONG INTERSTATE 80 IN ILLINOIS. THOSE DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION IF TRAVELING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 MPH OR GREATER ARE EXPECTED...WHICH CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION IF YOU ARE TRAVELING. && $$
2 follow-up statements
831 WWUS73 KDVN 281448 NPWDVN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 848 AM CST SUN FEB 28 2016 ...STRONG GUSTY WINDS TODAY... .STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL LEAD TO SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH OR GREATER FOR THE AREA WITH SOME GUSTS REACHING 45 MPH. IAZ089-099-ILZ016>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-282200- /O.CON.KDVN.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-160228T2200Z/ DES MOINES-LEE-HENRY IL-BUREAU-PUTNAM-MERCER-HENDERSON-WARREN- HANCOCK-MCDONOUGH-SCOTLAND-CLARK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BURLINGTON...FORT MADISON...KEWANEE... PRINCETON...HENNEPIN...ALEDO...OQUAWKA...MONMOUTH...CARTHAGE... MACOMB...MEMPHIS...KAHOKA 848 AM CST SUN FEB 28 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. WIND DIRECTION CHANGING TO THE WEST IN THE AFTERNOON. * TIMING...THROUGH 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON AFTERNOON. STRONGEST WINDS ARE LIKELY BETWEEN 11 AM AND 3 PM. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS WILL CREATE DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON ACROSS THE AREA... ESPECIALLY ALONG INTERSTATE 80 IN ILLINOIS. THOSE DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION IF TRAVELING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 MPH OR GREATER ARE EXPECTED...WHICH CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION IF YOU ARE TRAVELING. && $$ DLS
775 WWUS73 KDVN 282145 NPWDVN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 345 PM CST SUN FEB 28 2016 ...DIMINISHING WINDS THIS EVENING... IAZ089-099-ILZ016>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-282245- /O.EXP.KDVN.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-160228T2200Z/ DES MOINES-LEE-HENRY IL-BUREAU-PUTNAM-MERCER-HENDERSON-WARREN- HANCOCK-MCDONOUGH-SCOTLAND-CLARK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BURLINGTON...FORT MADISON...KEWANEE... PRINCETON...HENNEPIN...ALEDO...OQUAWKA...MONMOUTH...CARTHAGE... MACOMB...MEMPHIS...KAHOKA 345 PM CST SUN FEB 28 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... WEST WINDS FROM 20 TO 25 MPH WILL BECOME NORTHWEST AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. WHILE WIDESPREAD STRONG WINDS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED...WINDS MAY BRIEFLY REACH 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH FOLLOWING THE PASSAGE OF THE FRONT IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. $$ SHEETS
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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.