Posted on: 4:00 pm, March 4, 2013, by Shellie Nelson, updated on: 04:02pm, March 4, 2013
A winter storm warning was expanded to include counties in the Quad Cities.
In an update issued just before 4 p.m. Monday, the National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for Buchanan, Delaware, Benton, Linn, Jones, Cedar, Dubuque, Jackson, Clinton, Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Carroll, Whiteside, Johnson, Muscatine, Scott, Rock Island, Henry (Illinois), Bureau and Putnam counties.
The warning begins at midnight for counties at the southern edge of the warning area and at 6 p.m. for the rest of the warning area.
Six to ten inches of snow was forecast for the warning area.
Heaviest snowfalls were expected along and east of a line from Independence, Iowa to the Quad Cities to Cambridge, Illinois.
Increasing winds Tuesday afternoon and evening could result in significant blowing and drifting snow and reduced visibility even where snowfall amounts are less.
A winter weather advisory remains in effect from 6 p.m. Monday to 6 p.m. Tuesday for Iowa, Keokuk, Washington, Jefferson and Henry (Iowa) counties. The advisory begins at midnight for Louisa, Des Moines, Mercer, Henderson, Warren, Van Buren, Lee, Scotland, Clark, Hancock and McDonough counties.
Three to six inches of snow was expected in the advisory area, with amounts increasing in northern counties and decreasing to the south and west.
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A winter storm warning was expanded to include counties in the Quad Cities.
In an update issued just before 4 p.m. Monday, the National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for Buchanan, Delaware, Benton, Linn, Jones, Cedar, Dubuque, Jackson, Clinton, Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Carroll, Whiteside, Johnson, Muscatine, Scott, Rock Island, Henry (Illinois), Bureau and Putnam counties.
The warning begins at midnight for counties at the southern edge of the warning area and at 6 p.m. for the rest of the warning area.
Six to ten inches of snow was forecast for the warning area.
Heaviest snowfalls were expected along and east of a line from Independence, Iowa to the Quad Cities to Cambridge, Illinois.
Increasing winds Tuesday afternoon and evening could result in significant blowing and drifting snow and reduced visibility even where snowfall amounts are less.
A winter weather advisory remains in effect from 6 p.m. Monday to 6 p.m. Tuesday for Iowa, Keokuk, Washington, Jefferson and Henry (Iowa) counties. The advisory begins at midnight for Louisa, Des Moines, Mercer, Henderson, Warren, Van Buren, Lee, Scotland, Clark, Hancock and McDonough counties.
Three to six inches of snow was expected in the advisory area, with amounts increasing in northern counties and decreasing to the south and west.
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