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National Weather Service Quad Cities is a National Weather Service forecast office. weather forecast office based in Davenport, Iowa. [1] It is tasked with providing weather and emergency information to 21 counties in east-central and southeast Iowa, 13 counties in northwest and west-central Illinois, and two counties in extreme northeast Missouri.
The Quad Cities is located at the confluence of the Rock and Mississippi rivers, approximately 140 miles (230 km) west of Chicago, and forms the largest metropolitan area along the Mississippi River between Minneapolis–Saint Paul and the St. Louis metropolitan area. Interstate 80 crosses the Mississippi River here.
KWQC-DT2 is the Ion Television–affiliated second digital subchannel of KWQC-TV, broadcasting in standard definition on channel 6.2.. On August 13, 2007, KWQC launched a local digital weather service called the "KWQC 24/7 Weather Channel" on over-the-air digital subchannel 6.2 and on Mediacom digital channel 247 in the Quad Cities and surrounding areas.
Hail up to two inches in diameter could rain down on Johnson County as well, according to the National Weather Service (NWS) in the Quad Cities. 4:45 p.m.: National Weather Service cancels tornado ...
WQAD-TV. / 41.312361°N 90.379500°W / 41.312361; -90.379500. WQAD-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Moline, Illinois, United States, serving the Quad Cities area as an affiliate of ABC. Owned by Tegna Inc., the station maintains studios on Park 16th Street in Moline, and its transmitter is located in Orion, Illinois .
Quad Cities International Airport can accommodate any aircraft in almost any weather with the long runways, ILS, and high-intensity lighting. Airport officials claim that the airport is possibly capable of handling the Airbus A380. The airfield has had many changes over the past few years, including extending taxiway H. Runway 5/23 has been ...
Galva, IL Tornado (NWS Quad Cities, IA/IL) The Central Illinois Severe Weather Outbreak of April 19, 1996 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) April 19, 1996 - Illinois Tornado Outbreak (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) NWS Service Assessment (Ft. Smith and Van Buren, AR)
Tornadoes dating back to 1054 are confirmed, due to extensive record-keeping for many weather events and other until-then unexplained weather occurrences. On September 8, 2010, Tropical Storm Hermine went over the state of Texas and produced a few tornadoes in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex .