BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
700 AM CDT FRI JUN 19 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR…
BENTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA…
NORTHERN IOWA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA…
NORTHERN JOHNSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA…
LINN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA…

* UNTIL 800 AM CDT.

* AT 654 AM CDT…TRAINED SPOTTERS AND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 80 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF BELLE PLAINE…OR 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARENGO…AND MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
KEYSTONE…VAN HORNE…VINTON…URBANA…AMANA…WALFORD…
SWISHER…HIAWATHA…CEDAR RAPIDS…MARION…SOLON…WAUBEEK…
MOUNT VERNON…PRAIRIEBURG…LISBON AND VIOLA.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 380 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 6 AND 47.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM CAPABLE OF BLOWING DOWN TREES AND POWER POLES. MOVE INDOORS TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY.

THIS STORM HAS ALREADY PRODUCED WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH AND IT REMAINS A THREAT.