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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this winter storm warning at Feb 16, 2022, 3:30 AM CST for Lee County, Iowa; 5 counties in Illinois; Clark County, Scotland County, Missouri. It took effect at Feb 17, 2022, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 18 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, 2022, 3:30 AM CST (09:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 17, 2022, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2022, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
Counties Lee County, IA, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Warren County, IL, Clark County, MO, Scotland County, MO
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:32 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 1711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 418 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 531 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter 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 winter storm warning went out at Feb 15, 11:49 PM CST, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 11:49 PM CST, 3 hours 41 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 3:30 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DVN | Benton, Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa and 12 more | 39 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Illinois, 2022Winter Storm Warnings in Missouri, 2022Winter Storm Warnings in Iowa, 2022Every winter storm warning in 2022
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.