Tornado Warning

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED


TORNADO WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL

637 PM CDT SUN MAY 22 2011



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHICAGO HAS ISSUED A



* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

BOONE COUNTY...

NORTHWESTERN DE KALB COUNTY...

OGLE COUNTY...

WINNEBAGO COUNTY...



* UNTIL 715 PM CDT



* AT 634 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A

SEVERE SQUALL LINE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING RAIN-WRAPPED

TORNADOES IN ADDITION TO WIDESPREAD STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE.

THESE DANGEROUS STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM

RIDOTT TO GERMAN VALLEY TO 5 MILES WEST OF BYRON TO MOUNT MORRIS...

AND MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.



* THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR...

WINNEBAGO...STILLMAN VALLEY AND ROCKFORD AIRPORT AROUND 645 PM.

ROCKFORD AROUND 650 PM.

ROCKTON...MACHESNEY PARK...LOVES PARK AND CHERRY VALLEY AROUND 655

PM.

ROSCOE...SOUTH BELOIT AND BELVIDERE AROUND 700 PM.

POPLAR GROVE AND KIRKLAND AROUND 705 PM.



OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THESE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORMS INCLUDE NEW

MILLFORD AND DAVIS JUNCTION.



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT

WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR

ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!