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RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
710 AM CDT SAT MAY 18 2002

...PRELIMINARY REPORT...


...RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES ESTABLISHED AT BURLINGTON AND MOLINE.
RECORD LOW TIED AT DUBUQUE...


THE TEMPERATURE IN DUBUQUE...MOLINE...AND BURLINGTON FELL TO RECORD
LEVELS THIS MORNING.  MOLINE FELL TO 33 DEGREES...WHICH BREAKS
THE RECORD LOW OF 37 SET BACK IN 1976.  BURLINGTON FELL TO 35 DEGREES...
WHICH BREAKS THE PREVIOUS RECORD LOW OF 37...SET BACK IN 1945.  DUBUQUE
FELL TO 35 DEGREES...WHICH TIES THE OLD RECORD LOW SET IN 1976.

TEMPERATURES WILL FALL ONCE AGAIN LATER THIS EVENING.  IF READINGS FALL
BELOW THESE LEVELS BEFORE MIDNIGHT (CST)...THEY WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE
FINAL RECORD REPORT ISSUED EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.


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