⚠️ Flash Flood Warning – Cedar, IA; Muscatine, IA; Scott, IA – Monday, July 20, 2026

Flash Flood Warning issued July 20 at 11:36AM CDT until July 20 at 5:30PM CDT by NWS Quad Cities IA IL

Details

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The National Weather Service in Quad Cities has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for…
Southeastern Cedar County in east central Iowa…
Eastern Muscatine County in east central Iowa…
Scott County in east central Iowa…

* Until 530 PM CDT.

* At 1136 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 0.5 and 1 inch of rain
has fallen. The expected rainfall rate is 1 to 3 inches in 1 hour.
Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are possible in the
warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly.

HAZARD…Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.

SOURCE…Radar indicated.

IMPACT…Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas,
highways, streets and underpasses as well as other poor
drainage and low-lying areas.

* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include…
Davenport, Rock Island, Bettendorf, Muscatine, Tipton, Durant,
Eldridge, Wilton, Walcott, Blue Grass, Buffalo, Fruitland, Long
Grove, Bennett, Donahue, Montpelier, Dixon, Stockton, Maysville and
New Liberty.

This includes the following highways…
Interstate 74 in Iowa between mile markers 1 and 5. Interstate 280
between mile markers 1 and 10. Interstate 80 in Iowa between mile
markers 266 and 299.

Instructions

Turn around, don’t drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.

This alert was automatically posted by SkyGuard, MWSC’s severe weather alerting system. Source: National Weather Service.