Alert archive / Illinois / 1997
Weather alerts in Illinois, January 1997
3 weather alerts in January 1997, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in January 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 3
- Warnings
- 2
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- January 4, 19972 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 3:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 4, 5:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 42 min |
| Jan 22, 10:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pope | 33 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 2 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pope County2
- Union County2
- Alexander County1
- Bond County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Coles County1
- Crawford County1
- Cumberland County1
- Edwards County1
- Effingham County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Gallatin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Jackson County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Massac County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Perry County1
- Pulaski County1
- Randolph County1
- Richland County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Saline County1
- Shelby County1
- Wabash County1
- Washington County1
- Wayne County1
- White County1
- Williamson County1
Nearby
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.