BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1043 PM CDT WED MAY 12 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR…
CLARK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI…
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF KAHOKA…
SCOTLAND COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI…
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MEMPHIS…
DES MOINES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA…
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BURLINGTON…
HENRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA…
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MOUNT PLEASANT…
JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA…
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FAIRFIELD…
LEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA…
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF…KEOKUK…FORT MADISON…
VAN BUREN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA…
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF KEOSAUQUA…
NORTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS…
HENDERSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS…
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF OQUAWKA…

* UNTIL 630 AM CDT THURSDAY

* AT 1028 PM CDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS OVER CLARK AND SCOTLAND COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI. MORE HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING TO THE SOUTHWEST OVER NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AND WILL MOVE THE THROUGH THE WARNED AREA THE REST OF THIS EVENING AND EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. THE STORMS WILL BE MOVING OVER AREAS WHERE THE GROUND IS SATURATED FROM RAINFALL DURING THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING…ESPECIALLY WHILE DRIVING.

FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS…HIGHWAYS AND STREETS…UNDERPASSES AND LOW LYING URBAN AND RURAL AREAS IS LIKELY.