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Wind Advisory 11, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this wind advisory at Dec 18, 2025, 2:19 AM CST for 21 counties in Iowa; 13 counties in Illinois; Clark County, Scotland County, Missouri. It took effect at Dec 18, 2025, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 18, 2025, 2:19 AM CST (08:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 18, 2025, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Dec 19, 2025, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
All 36 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, Bureau County, IL, Carroll County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, Jo Daviess County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Stephenson County, IL, Warren County, IL, Whiteside County, IL, Clark County, MO, Scotland County, MO
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:20 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 2360 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 6:08 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Benton, Iowa, Jefferson, Keokuk, Van Buren, Washington | 37 min |
| Dec 18, 6:40 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Benton, Iowa, Jefferson, Keokuk, Van Buren, Washington | 65 min |
| Dec 18, 6:41 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Benton, Iowa, Jefferson, Keokuk, Van Buren, Washington | 64 min |
| Dec 18, 7:38 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Henry, Jefferson, Johnson, Jones, Keokuk, Linn and 2 more | 52 min |
| Dec 18, 8:27 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Cedar, Des Moines, Henry, Jackson, Jones, Lee and 2 more | 48 min |
| Dec 18, 9:41 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Clinton, Scott | 49 min |
| Dec 18, 4:06 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 18, 10:27 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Bureau, Henry | 63 min |
| Dec 18, 11:13 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Putnam | 47 min |
Nearby
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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.