National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office
Quad Cities

The counties in Iowa (21), Illinois (13), and Missouri (2), highlighted in white, served by the Quad Cities WFO
Agency overview
TypeMeteorological
JurisdictionFederal Government of the United States
Headquarters9040 N Harrison Street
Davenport Municipal Airport
Davenport, IA 52806-7326
Employees19
Agency executives
  • Meteorologist in Charge
  • Rich Kinney, Warning Coordination Meteorologist
Parent agencyNational Weather Service
Websitewww.weather.gov/dvn/

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.[2]

History

The Quad Cities Weather office was established on May 24, 1871, starting out on the third floor of the First National Bank building at Second and Main Streets in Davenport. The office would move around Davenport several times over the course of the next sixty-five years before relocating across the state line to the Moline airport (now known as Quad Cities International Airport) in October 1936.

In October 1993, construction on a new facility for the Quad Cities office began near Davenport Municipal Airport, and the Quad Cities NWS began the transition from Moline back to Davenport, a move that was completed by February 1995. The following month, the Quad Cities office's county warning area expanded to 34 counties – 21 in Iowa and 13 in Illinois. In November 1999, the St. Louis NWS office transferred responsibility for Clark and Scotland counties in extreme northeast Missouri to the Quad Cities weather office, bringing the total number of counties in the Quad Cities office's county warning area to its present number of 36.

In June 2017, the Quad Cities office moved into a new facility, also on the grounds of Davenport Municipal Airport.[3]

NOAA Weather Radio

The Quad Cities forecast office operates the following eleven NOAA Weather Radio transmitters to broadcast weather forecasts, watches, warnings, and other relevant emergency information to persons in its county warning area, as well as adjacent counties served by other NWS forecast offices:

City of licenseCall signFrequency (MHz)Service area of transmitter
Cedar Rapids, IowaWXL61162.475 MHzCedar Rapids and Iowa City areas
Delaware County, IowaKJY64162.450 MHzportions of northeast Iowa
Jamestown, WisconsinWXL64162.400 MHzDubuque area
Fairfield, IowaWXN85162.400 MHzportions of southeast Iowa
Eleroy, IllinoisKZZ56162.450 MHzFreeport area
Macomb, IllinoisWXJ92162.500 MHzportions of west-central Illinois
Jackson, IowaKZZ83162.425 MHzextreme east-central Iowa
Kahoka, MissouriWXL99162.450 MHzextreme northeast Missouri, extreme southeast Iowa, extreme west-central Illinois
Tiskilwa, IllinoisWXL22162.425 MHzportions of northwest Illinois
Rock Island, IllinoisWXJ73162.550 MHzQuad Cities metropolitan area
West Burlington, IowaWXN83162.525 MHzBurlington area

References

  1. ↑ US Department of Commerce, NOAA. "About the NWS Quad Cities Forecast Office". www.weather.gov. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  2. ↑ US Department of Commerce, NOAA. "Quad Cities, IA/IL". www.weather.gov. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  3. ↑ "About the NWS Quad Cities Forecast Office".
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