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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this winter storm warning at Jan 4, 2025, 2:16 AM CST for Lee County, Van Buren County, Iowa; Hancock County, McDonough County, Illinois; Clark County, Scotland County, Missouri. It took effect at Jan 5, 2025, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 26 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
- Jan 4, 2025, 2:16 AM CST (08:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 5, 2025, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 6, 2025, 2:28 AM CST
- In force
- 26 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
Counties Lee County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Hancock County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Clark County, MO, Scotland County, MO
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:13 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
- 1260 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 122 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 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 Jan 3, 10:33 PM CST, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 10:33 PM CST, 3 hours 43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 2:16 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Van Buren | 48 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Iowa, 2025Winter Storm Warnings in Illinois, 2025Winter Storm Warnings in Missouri, 2025Every winter storm 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.