Alert archive / Illinois / 2002
Weather alerts in Illinois, August 2002
44 weather alerts in August 2002, 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 August 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 44
- Warnings
- 40
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 19, 200211 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark | 36 min |
| Aug 2, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark | 27 min |
| Aug 4, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Bureau | 23 min |
| Aug 4, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry | 44 min |
| Aug 12, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Carroll, Whiteside | 63 min |
| Aug 12, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Stephenson | 39 min |
| Aug 13, 12:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Iroquois and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 13, 3:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Knox, Stark | 4 hr |
| Aug 16, 6:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Logan | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 7:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | McLean | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 8:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Menard, Sangamon | 49 min |
| Aug 16, 9:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan, McLean | 6 hr |
| Aug 17, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jo Daviess | 5 hr |
| Aug 19, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 40 min |
| Aug 19, 1:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 27 min |
| Aug 19, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ford | 55 min |
| Aug 19, 2:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 42 min |
| Aug 19, 2:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois | 4 hr |
| Aug 19, 2:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 6 hr |
| Aug 19, 4:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Mason | 47 min |
| Aug 19, 4:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Champaign | 6 hr |
| Aug 19, 5:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Champaign, Vermilion | 6 hr |
| Aug 19, 5:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 58 min |
| Aug 19, 6:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Henderson, Henry and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 21, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Winnebago | 46 min |
| Aug 21, 8:10 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 110 min | |
| Aug 21, 8:10 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 110 min | |
| Aug 21, 8:10 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 110 min | |
| Aug 21, 8:10 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 110 min | |
| Aug 21, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lake | 47 min |
| Aug 21, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jo Daviess, Stephenson | 64 min |
| Aug 21, 11:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Jo Daviess, Stephenson | 9 hr |
| Aug 21, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jo Daviess | 66 min |
| Aug 21, 11:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Boone, Lake, McHenry, Winnebago | 7 hr |
| Aug 22, 2:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Ogle | 6 hr |
| Aug 22, 8:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Champaign, DeWitt, Piatt, Vermilion | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 12:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Fulton, Knox | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 12:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Warren | 9 hr |
| Aug 23, 2:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Ford | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 4:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Iroquois | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 9:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 10:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois | 3 hr |
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 | 16 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 19 |
| Marine | |
| Special Marine Warning | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ford County7
- Jo Daviess County6
- Iroquois County6
- McLean County5
- Stephenson County5
- Winnebago County5
- Boone County4
- DeKalb County4
- Knox County4
- Lake County4
- Logan County4
- Ogle County4
- Vermilion County4
- Bureau County3
- Carroll County3
- Cook County3
- DeWitt County3
- DuPage County3
- Henderson County3
- Henry County3
- Kane County3
- Lee County3
- McHenry County3
- Stark County3
- Warren County3
- Whiteside County3
- Champaign County3
- Fulton County2
- Grundy County2
- Hancock County2
- Kankakee County2
- Kendall County2
- LaSalle County2
- McDonough County2
- Marshall County2
- Mason County2
- Mercer County2
- Peoria County2
- Putnam County2
- Rock Island County2
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.