Weather Alerts For Bettendorf, IA

# SUMMARY -------------------- THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 451 IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM CDT SATURDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN ILLINOIS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 9 COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS BUREAU PUTNAM IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS CARROLL HENRY IL JO DAVIESS MERCER ROCK ISLAND STEPHENSON WHITESIDE IN IOWA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 8 COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA CEDAR CLINTON JACKSON JOHNSON MUSCATINE SCOTT IN SOUTHEAST IOWA LOUISA WASHINGTON THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ALEDO, BETTENDORF, CLINTON, CREDIT ISLAND, DAVENPORT, FREEPORT, GALENA, GENESEO, HENNEPIN, IOWA CITY, MAQUOKETA, MOLINE, MOUNT CARROLL, MUSCATINE, PRINCETON, ROCK ISLAND, STERLING, TIPTON, WAPELLO, AND WASHINGTON. # DETAILS -------------------- ISSUED AT Friday, July 3, 2026 at 6:37 PM CDT ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL HEADER WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION FOR WATCH 451

A Weather Alert has been issued for a nearby area. While your current location is outside of the impacted area, please stay alert and monitor weather conditions. # HEADLINE -------------------- Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of northwestern Carroll, Jo Daviess, western Stephenson, northwestern Scott, Clinton, Jackson, southeastern Dubuque, Cedar, southeastern Jones and northern Johnson Counties through 700 PM CDT # SUMMARY -------------------- At 614 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from near St. Donatus to Canton to near Olin to near Tiffin. Movement was east at 30 mph. # DETAILS -------------------- HAZARD Winds in excess of 40 mph, minor flooding and penny size hail. SOURCE Radar indicated. IMPACT Gusty winds could cause minor tree limb damage and blow around unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible. Slowing or redirecting of traffic due to ponding or flowing water. Closure of waterfront access due to flooding. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR - Iowa City, Galena, Stanwood, Coralville, North Liberty, University Heights, Oxford Junction, La Motte, Monmouth, and St. Donatus around 620 PM CDT. Fulton and Nashville around 625 PM CDT. Tipton, West Branch, Lost Nation, Andrew, and Hurstville around 630 PM CDT. - Other locations in the path of these storms include Maquoketa, Bellevue, Lowden, Toronto, Springbrook, Elizabeth and Schapville. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS Interstate 80 in Iowa between mile markers 237 and 279. Interstate 380 near mile marker 1. ISSUED AT Friday, July 3, 2026 at 6:15 PM CDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service Quad Cities IA/IL HEADER Special Weather Statement # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms. Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe shelter inside a building or vehicle. # AREAS AFFECTED -------------------- Jackson IA, Carroll IL, Cedar IA, Clinton IA, Dubuque IA, Jo Daviess IL, Johnson IA, Jones IA, Scott IA, Stephenson IL

Closest strike: 6.77 miles Stay Alert! Remain in a safe area until there has been no lightning within 10 miles of this location for 30 minutes. Please be aware that lightning activity can remain high even when a storm is moving away from your location. Even if rain has stopped, do not leave your safe area until WeatherBug indicates that lightning is more than 10 miles away from this selected location. IF OUTDOORS Avoid water, high ground, and open spaces. Avoid all metal objects including electric wires, fences, and machinery. Find a safe area in a building or in a fully enclosed vehicle with the windows completely shut. Unsafe places include underneath canopies, small picnic or rain shelters, convertibles, or near trees. IF INDOORS Avoid water and stay away from doors and windows. Avoid using a hard line telephone. Take off headphones. Turn off, unplug, and stay away from appliances, computers, power tools, and TV sets. Lightning may strike exterior electric and phone lines, inducing shocks to inside equipment.

There is a Slight Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA INTO WESTERN IOWA AND SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN SUMMARY A swath of damaging to severe gusts is expected across southern Lower Michigan over the next few hours. Scattered damaging gusts are also likely over portions of the Mid Atlantic. Otherwise, scattered wind damage and large hail are still expected from parts of Nebraska into Iowa today. Isolated to scattered severe storms remain possible extending eastward from the northern/central Plains into the Midwest and Tennessee Valley. 20Z Update The main change made to this outlook was to upgrade southern Lower MI to a Category 3/Enhanced Risk, driven by 30 percent/CIG1 wind probabilities. A cold-pool-driven MCS, with some bowing tendencies and a history of producing numerous measured gusts in the 60-70 mph, is rapidly approaching southern Lower MI. KGRR inbound velocity data shows a rear-inflow jet exists with this MCS, and surface observations/latest mesoanalysis show a favorable environment in place for bow-echo persistence. Surface temperatures are exceeding 90 F in spots, amid 70-75 F surface dewpoints, yielding a gradient of 1500-3500 J/kg MLCAPE. Up to 30 kts of effective bulk shear coincides with this buoyancy gradient, with vectors oriented normal to the MCS leading-line orientation. Therefore, the expectation is for a damaging wind swath to occur over southern Lower MI with the passage of this MCS. At least scattered gusts will likely exceed 50 kts in intensity, and a few of these gusts may exceed 75 mph. 30 percent wind-driven probabilities were also added over portions of eastern PA into far southeastern NY and NJ, where surface temperatures are exceeding 100 F in spots ahead of a developing multicellular cluster. While vertical wind shear is modest, the well-mixed boundary layer is yielding low-level lapse rates well over 8 C/km on a widespread basis, with corresponding DCAPE approaching 1500 J/kg. As such, several of the stronger storm cores may produce wet downbursts capable of at least tree/wire damage on a scattered basis, and a few severe gusts are also possible. Otherwise, the previous forecast (see below) remains on track.