A Moderate Risk of severe thunderstorms (level 4 of 5) is in the outlook across portions of the Midwest today. Damaging winds, a few tornadoes and frequent lightning with heavy rainfall are in the forecast. Meanwhile, dangerous heat across the southern Plains into the Great Lakes, mid-Atlantic and Northeast will expand into Friday. Risk for wildfires for the central Rockies and Sacramento Valley. Read More >
Overview
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An upper level storm system tracked east across the Great Plains and Midwest Sunday morning, bringing precipitation to much of Missouri, southeast Iowa, west central and northwest Illinois. Freezing rain was the dominant precipitation type, with many areas south of I-80 seeing at least a glaze of ice on area roads and sidewalks. Many accidents were reported to the Iowa and Illinois Department of Transportation and travel was not advised late Sunday morning and early afternoon. Southeast Iowa and west central Illinois saw even higher freezing rain amounts, with ice thicknesses around a tenth of an inch. |
Storm Reports
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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
915 PM CST SUN JAN 07 2018
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1008 AM FREEZING RAIN MACOMB 40.47N 90.68W
01/07/2018 E0.01 INCH MCDONOUGH IL LAW ENFORCEMENT
LIGHT ICE GLAZE ON ROADS.
1206 PM FREEZING RAIN 2 NW BURLINGTON 40.83N 91.15W
01/07/2018 E0.08 INCH DES MOINES IA TRAINED SPOTTER
ICE THICKNESS OF .08 OF AN INCH ON THE PATIO. LIGHT
FREEZING RAIN CONTINUES.
1234 PM FREEZING RAIN MOLINE QUAD-CITY AIRPOR 41.45N 90.50W
01/07/2018 E0.02 INCH ROCK ISLAND IL OFFICIAL NWS OBS
GLAZE OF ICE ON MOST SURFACES.
1242 PM FREEZING RAIN 3 NW KEOKUK 40.44N 91.45W
01/07/2018 E0.02 INCH LEE IA TRAINED SPOTTER
LIGHT FREEZING RAIN WITH A GLAZE OF ICE ON SIDEWALKS AND
ROADS.
0339 PM FREEZING RAIN 5 E CANTRIL 40.64N 91.98W
01/07/2018 E0.10 INCH VAN BUREN IA TRAINED SPOTTER
A TENTH OF AN INCH OF ICE ACCUMULATION ON EXPOSED
SURFACES. TEMPERATURES WAS 33 DEGREES WITH SOME FREEZING
DRIZZLE.
0500 PM FREEZING RAIN PARK VIEW 41.69N 90.54W
01/07/2018 E0.00 INCH SCOTT IA NWS EMPLOYEE
COATING OF ICE ON UNTREATED SURFACES.
0530 PM FREEZING RAIN 3 NW KEOKUK 40.44N 91.45W
01/07/2018 E0.20 INCH LEE IA TRAINED SPOTTER
TWO TENTHS OF AN INCH OF ICE ON UNTREATED SURFACES.
FREEZING RAIN HAS CHANGEED OVER TO A MIX OF SLEET AND
SNOW. TRANSMISSTION OF THE REPORT WAS DELAYED.
Rain Reports
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| Figure 1: Local 24-hr Rainfall |
Figure 2: Regional 24-hr Rainfall |
Environment
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| Figure 1: Mesoscale Precipitation Discussion #10 | Figure 2: Mesoscale Precipitaiton Discussion #11 |
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| Figure 3: 12z 1/7/18 DVN Sounding | Figure 4: 00z 1/8/18 DVN Sounding |
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