[LeArc] Special Weather Statement : MLI@ 4/20/02 4:45:09 PM

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The following weather message is provided by McDonough County E.S.D.A.


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SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION TO FIFTH PARAGRAPH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
446 PM CDT SAT APR 20 2002

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY NORTH...
...HEAVY RAINS POSSIBLE...

A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL TRACK ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI TONIGHT AND
SUNDAY MORNING...MOVING INTO SOUTHERN ILLINOIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
PRECIPITATION WILL SPREAD NORTH OF THIS SYSTEM ACROSS EASTERN IOWA...
NORTHEAST MISSOURI...AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS LATE THIS EVENING.
PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY...TAPERING OFF IN THE
AFTERNOON...AND ENDING BY EVENING. A MIX OF WINTERY PRECIPITATION IS
LIKELY NORTH...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL CENTRAL AND SOUTH.

THE PRIMARY AREA TO BE AFFECTED BY WINTERY WEATHER WILL BE NEAR AND
NORTH OF A LINE FROM INDEPENDENCE TO MANCHESTER TO DUBUQUE...WHERE A
MIX OF SLEET AND SNOW LATE TONIGHT INTO SUNDAY WILL CHANGE TO ALL SNOW
SUNDAY AFTERNOON...WITH 1 TO 3 INCHES OF ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE...MAINLY
ON GRASS AND ELEVATED SURFACES. BRIEF PERIODS OF FREEZING RAIN ARE
ALSO POSSIBLE SUNDAY MORNING NORTH OF A LINE FROM INDEPENDENCE TO
DUBUQUE.

JUST SOUTH OF THIS AREA...FROM BELLE PLAINE TO CEDAR RAPIDS TO MAQUOKETA
TO FREEPORT...A MIX OF RAIN AND SLEET LATE TONIGHT AND SUNDAY WILL
CHANGE TO ALL SNOW BEFORE ENDING SUNDAY EVENING...WITH UNDER AN INCH
ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE...AGAIN MAINLY ON GRASS AND ELEVATED SURFACES.
PRECIPITATION WILL END BY SUNDAY EVENING.

WARM GROUND TEMPERATURES WILL PREVENT SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATIONS ON MOST
ROADWAYS...ALTHOUGH SLEET COULD MAKE CONDITIONS TREACHEROUS IN SOME
AREAS...MAINLY FROM INDEPENDENCE TO MANCHESTER TO DUBUQUE NORTH.

FURTHER SOUTH...RAINFALL OF UP TO AN INCH TONIGHT AND SUNDAY COULD BRING
STREAMS TO BANKFULL IN PLACES SUNDAY...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80
WHERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE UP TO 2 INCHES LOCALLY...WHICH WOULD
APPROACH FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE.  URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORIES
ARE NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION SUNDAY.

EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND HIGHWAY DEPARTMENTS ARE URGED TO LISTEN TO LATER
FORECASTS AND FOR POSSIBLE ADVISORIES REGARDING THIS STORM SYSTEM.

REA