[LeArc] Significant Weather Outlook

[Tony Coniglio]

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> SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK
>  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
>  523 AM CST FRI MAR 8 2002
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>  ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...AND HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLE
>  TODAY...
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>  A COLD FRONT DRAPED FROM CENTRAL WISCONSIN INTO NORTHWEST
>  MISSOURI WILL SLIDE EASTWARD TODAY AND TONIGHT.  OUR AREA IS ALREADY
>  IN THE WARM SECTOR OF THIS WEATHER SYSTEM...AS THE WARM FRONT WAS
>  ALREADY NORTH OF U.S. HIGHWAY 20. EARLY MORNING SHOWERS AND
>  THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIT THE AREA BY LATE MORNING...WITH MORE
>  SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE LATER TODAY INTO TONIGHT IN
>  ASSOCIATION WITH THE COLD FRONT.
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>  THIS WEATHER SYSTEM WILL PUSH PLENTY OF MOISTURE AND WARM AIR ON
>  BREEZY SOUTH WINDS INTO THE REGION AS IT INTERACTS WITH A COLD
>  AIR PUSH FROM CANADA.  THIS WILL PRODUCE LARGE AREAS OF RAIN AND
>  THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AMOUNTS AS THE STORM PASSES
>  THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  AT THIS TIME...A FEW STORMS MAY
>  REACH SEVERE LEVELS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE GREATEST
>  THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER LATE TODAY WILL BE HAIL...STRONG WINDS
>  AND ISOLATED TORNADOES.  ALTHOUGH THE REGION MOST SUSCEPTIBLE FOR
>  SEVERE WEATHER IS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80...ANY LOCATION IN OUR AREA
>  MAY SEE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS.
>  
>  THE SYSTEM WILL ALSO PRODUCE SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL TOTALS OF ONE HALF
>  TO ONE INCH...WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS UP TO TWO INCHES IN THUNDERSTORMS.
>  AS THE STRONG SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM PASSES LATE TONIGHT...
>  MUCH COLDER AIR WILL MOVE IN ON STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS
>  ALONG WITH A CHANCE OF SNOW BY SATURDAY ALONG WITH NEARLY STEADY
>  TEMPERATURES IN THE 30S.  ANY SNOW AMOUNTS SHOULD BE MINOR.
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>  THE RISK OF SIGNIFICANT RAINS TODAY AND TONIGHT...COMBINED WITH
>  SATURATED SOIL FROM OUR MELTING SNOW COVER AND PARTIALLY FROZEN
>  GROUND...ESPECIALLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80 CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR
>  MINOR FLOODING ON AREA STREAMS AND RIVERS TODAY AND SATURDAY. URBAN
>  AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THE HEAVIER RAIN
>  LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. THEREFORE...A FLOOD POTENTIAL OUTLOOK HAS
>  BEEN ISSUED FOR TODAY INTO SATURDAY FOR THE RISK OF FLOODING CAUSED
>  BY THIS STORM SYSTEM.
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>  JAZ
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