BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
627 PM CDT FRI JUL 24 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR…
BUCHANAN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST IOWA…
DELAWARE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST IOWA…
DUBUQUE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST IOWA…

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT.

* AT 626 PM CDT…TRAINED SPOTTERS AND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH….AND TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED APPROXIMATELY ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES WEST OF HAZLETON TO COLESBURG…OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES WEST OF OELWEIN TO 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF MANCHESTER…AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR…
HAZLETON…COLESBURG AND AURORA AROUND 635 PM CDT…
LUXEMBURG…LAMONT AND GREELEY AROUND 640 PM CDT…
HOLY CROSS AND DUNDEE AROUND 645 PM CDT…
INDEPENDENCE AND BALLTOWN AROUND 650 PM CDT…

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 380 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 49 AND 55.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
TORNADO-LIKE WINDS AND STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO WELL BUILT BUILDINGS. MOVE INDOORS TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY.

THIS STORM HAS ALREADY PRODUCED EXTREMELY LARGE HAIL…AND IT REMAINS A THREAT.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN IOWA AND NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS.