⚠️ Special Weather Statement – Muscatine; Scott; Louisa; Whiteside; Rock Island; Henry; Mercer – Saturday, September 19, 2026

Special Weather Statement issued September 19 at 11:56PM CDT by NWS Quad Cities IA IL

Details

At 1155 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from Donahue to near Columbus City. Movement was
east at 35 mph.

HAZARD…Winds in excess of 40 mph.

SOURCE…Radar indicated.

IMPACT…Gusty winds could cause minor tree limb damage and blow
around unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include…
Davenport, Moline, Rock Island, Bettendorf, Muscatine, East Moline,
Kewanee, Aledo, Cambridge, Wapello, Silvis, Geneseo, Eldridge, Milan,
Colona, Le Claire, Coal Valley, Galva, Prophetstown, and Hampton.

This includes the following highways…
Interstate 74 in Iowa between mile markers 1 and 5.
Interstate 80 in Iowa between mile markers 282 and 306.
Interstate 80 in Illinois between mile markers 1 and 35.
Interstate 74 in Illinois between mile markers 1 and 33.
Interstate 88 between mile markers 1 and 22.
Interstate 280 between mile markers 1 and 18.

Instructions

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

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