BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1046 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR…
CLARK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI…
SCOTLAND COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI…
SOUTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA…
LEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA…
VAN BUREN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA…

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT.

* AT 1042 PM CDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH…AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED APPROXIMATELY ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES WEST OF DOUDS/LEANDO TO 28 MILES WEST OF MEMPHIS…OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FAIRFIELD TO 28 MILES WEST OF MEMPHIS…AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR…
DOUDS/LEANDO AROUND 1050 PM CDT…
MILTON AROUND 1055 PM CDT…
KEOSAUQUA AND CANTRIL AROUND 1105 PM CDT…
MEMPHIS AROUND 1110 PM CDT…
BENTONSPORT/VERNON AROUND 1115 PM CDT…
BONAPARTE AND GRANGER AROUND 1120 PM CDT…

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS. MOVE IMMEDIATELY INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

BRIEF TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE ON THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORMS IN ADDITION TO DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS.