BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
847 PM CDT THU JUL 22 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR…
NORTH CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA…
CENTRAL DUBUQUE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST IOWA…
NORTHWESTERN JO DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS…

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT.

* AT 842 PM CDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED APPROXIMATELY NEAR CENTRALIA…OR 9 MILES WEST OF DUBUQUE…AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR…
DUBUQUE AND DUBUQUE REGIONAL AIRPORT AROUND 855 PM CDT…
EAST DUBUQUE AROUND 900 PM CDT…
MENOMINEE AND 6 MILES NORTH OF ST. DONATUS AROUND 910 PM CDT…
GALENA AROUND 920 PM CDT…
COUNCIL HILL AROUND 925 PM CDT…

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.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

THIS STORM IS ALSO PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING.