[LeArc] HWODVN@ 10/23/02 5:43:23 AM

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


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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
551 AM CDT WED OCT 23 2002

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF IOWA...ILLINOIS...AND
MISSOURI.

.DAY ONE...

LIGHT PRECIPITATION...MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80...WILL END BY MID
MORNING. LIGHT SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE WEST OF A LINE FROM MOUNT
PLEASANT TO FARMINGTON TO MEMPHIS. NO ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED.

THIS AFTERNOON...LIGHT RAIN WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA FROM
WEST TO EAST...REACHING WESTERN ILLINOIS BY EARLY EVENING. RAIN WILL
CHANCE TO SNOW OVERNIGHT NEAR AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM MARENGO TO CEDAR
RAPIDS TO MAQUOKETA TO FREEPORT. AN INCH OR TWO ACCUMULATION IS
POSSIBLE ON GRASSY SURFACES IN NORTHEAST IOWA...AND UP TO AN INCH IN
NORTHWEST ILLINOIS...BY SUNRISE. FURTHER SOUTH...FROM SIGOURNEY TO IOWA
CITY TO THE QUAD CITIES TO MORRISON...RAIN MAY CHANGE TO SNOW AT
TIMES...WITH A DUSTING POSSIBLE ON THE IOWA SIDE OF THE MISSISSIPPI
RIVER. FURTHER SOUTH...PRECIPITATION WILL BE MAINLY RAINFALL.

WARM SOIL TEMPERATURES...NEAR 40 DEGREES IN CEDAR RAPIDS AND
DUBUQUE...AND IN THE LOWER 40S IN IOWA CITY AND THE QUAD CITIES...WILL
PREVENT SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATIONS ON ROADWAYS IN MOST AREAS...EXCEPT
POSSIBLY FROM VINTON TO INDEPENDENCE TO MANCHESTER TO DUBUQUE...WHERE
ROADS MAY BECOME SLICK BY SUNRISE.

A SNOW ADVISORY MAY BE NEEDED FOR NORTHERN SECTIONS TONIGHT.  STAY TUNED
TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS...FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON
THIS EVOLVING SITUATION.


.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NECESSARY TODAY OR TONIGHT. HOWEVER...
SNOWFALL REPORTS IN NORTHERN AREAS...SHOULD SNOW OCCUR...WILL BE MUCH
APPRECIATED.


.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

SIGNIFICANT PRECIPITATION WILL END FROM NORTH TO SOUTH THURSDAY
MORNING.  THERE WILL BE CHANCES FOR LIGHT SNOW OR RAIN...HOWEVER...
THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT.

LOOKING FURTHER AHEAD...A STORM WILL MOVE OUT OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS
SUNDAY NIGHT...SPREADING PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE AREA LATE SUNDAY
NIGHT...MONDAY...AND MONDAY NIGHT.  PRECIPITATION CHANCES AND
PRECIPITATION TYPE WILL BE SIMILAR TO THE WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY EVENT...
EXCEPT POSSIBLY WITH SLIGHTLY HIGHER PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS.

$$

REA