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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Quad Cities, IA

February 27, 202521 counties in Iowa; 7 counties in Illinois; Clark County, Scotland County, Missouri

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this red flag warning at Feb 27, 2025, 1:50 PM CST for 21 counties in Iowa; 7 counties in Illinois; Clark County, Scotland County, Missouri. It took effect at Feb 28, 2025, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 6 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 27, 2025, 1:50 PM CST (19:50 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 28, 2025, 12:00 PM CST
Expired: Feb 28, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA

All 30 counties

Benton County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Cedar County, IA, Clinton County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Dubuque County, IA, Henry County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Lee County, IA, Linn County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Scott County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Washington County, IA, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Warren County, IL, Clark County, MO, Scotland County, MO

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 70 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1271 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Feb 27, 1:49 PM CST, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 27, 1:49 PM CST, 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 27, 4:10 AM CST, 9 hours 40 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Quad Cities IA IL
410 AM CST Thu Feb 27 2025

IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007-
009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-281200-
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-
410 AM CST Thu Feb 27 2025

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

Mild and breezy conditions may lead to an elevated fire danger in
some locations this afternoon.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

Very windy conditions are expected Friday with gusts up to 45 to
50 mph, especially during the afternoon. These strong winds will
combine with mild temperatures and dry conditions to produce an
elevated fire danger, and perhaps some critical fire danger on
Friday as well.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will not be needed today or tonight.

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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
Feb 27, 1:18 PM CST	Wind Advisory	DVN	Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 10 more	29 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Iowa, 2025 Red Flag Warnings in Illinois, 2025 Red Flag Warnings in Missouri, 2025 Every red flag warning in 2025

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.