Alert archive / Illinois / 2006
Weather alerts in Illinois, October 2006
73 weather alerts in October 2006, 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 October 2006. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 73
- Warnings
- 55
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 7
- Busiest day
- October 3, 200634 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 8:35 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | PAH | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 11 hr |
| Oct 1, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ogle | 33 min |
| Oct 2, 12:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Iroquois and 11 more | 94 min |
| Oct 2, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kane | 21 min |
| Oct 2, 1:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Jo Daviess, Ogle, Stephenson, Winnebago | 93 min |
| Oct 2, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kendall | 31 min |
| Oct 2, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, DuPage | 28 min |
| Oct 2, 1:37 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 83 min | |
| Oct 2, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 16 more | 9 hr |
| Oct 2, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Will | 50 min |
| Oct 2, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook | 46 min |
| Oct 2, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kendall | 60 min |
| Oct 2, 2:20 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 85 min | |
| Oct 2, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Will | 46 min |
| Oct 2, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, Will | 38 min |
| Oct 2, 5:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy and 13 more | 113 min |
| Oct 2, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Will | 51 min |
| Oct 2, 6:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Will | 3 hr |
| Oct 2, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook | 55 min |
| Oct 2, 7:44 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 2 hr | |
| Oct 2, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, DuPage | 54 min |
| Oct 2, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lake | 65 min |
| Oct 2, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Lake | 20 min |
| Oct 2, 8:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy and 11 more | 64 min |
| Oct 2, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | McHenry | 46 min |
| Oct 2, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Will | 40 min |
| Oct 2, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook | 48 min |
| Oct 2, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Boone, Winnebago | 53 min |
| Oct 2, 8:56 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 2 hr | |
| Oct 2, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Stephenson | 21 min |
| Oct 2, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lee, Ogle | 64 min |
| Oct 2, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Whiteside | 28 min |
| Oct 2, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, DuPage | 67 min |
| Oct 2, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Bureau | 59 min |
| Oct 2, 9:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Cook, Lake | 3 hr |
| Oct 2, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DeKalb | 51 min |
| Oct 2, 9:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 2, 9:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Cook, DuPage | 3 hr |
| Oct 2, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | LaSalle | 84 min |
| Oct 2, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Grundy, Kankakee, Will | 66 min |
| Oct 2, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Bureau | 61 min |
| Oct 2, 10:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Kendall, Will | 3 hr |
| Oct 2, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kendall, Will | 43 min |
| Oct 2, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | LaSalle, Livingston | 83 min |
| Oct 2, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Bureau, Putnam | 53 min |
| Oct 2, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Stark | 65 min |
| Oct 2, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Grundy, Kankakee, Will | 61 min |
| Oct 2, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois | 63 min |
| Oct 3, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Livingston | 49 min |
| Oct 3, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall | 43 min |
| Oct 3, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria, Woodford | 26 min |
| Oct 3, 9:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LOT | Boone, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake and 4 more | 26 hr |
| Oct 4, 6:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Grundy, LaSalle | 29 min |
| Oct 4, 7:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 37 min |
| Oct 4, 3:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Crawford and 16 more | 54 min |
| Oct 4, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Oct 5, 7:49 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Bureau, Carroll, Henry, Jo Daviess, Putnam, Rock Island and 2 more | 12 hr |
| Oct 10, 3:25 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | LOT | Boone, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois and 10 more | 13 hr |
| Oct 11, 3:19 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | ILX | Fulton, Knox, McLean, Marshall, Mason, Peoria and 4 more | 30 hr |
| Oct 11, 3:40 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | LSX | Adams, Brown | 29 hr |
| Oct 11, 3:42 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | DVN | Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 7 more | 29 hr |
| Oct 11, 4:19 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | LOT | Boone, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois and 10 more | 30 hr |
| Oct 12, 3:28 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles and 19 more | 30 hr |
| Oct 12, 3:55 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | LSX | Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jersey and 9 more | 29 hr |
| Oct 12, 4:19 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | PAH | Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson and 7 more | 28 hr |
| Oct 12, 3:23 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | PAH | Alexander, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski | 17 hr |
| Oct 13, 10:44 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | PAH | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 13, 2:56 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | PAH | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 18 hr |
| Oct 14, 2:08 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | PAH | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 19 hr |
| Oct 14, 3:21 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | ILX | Clay, Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland | 17 hr |
| Oct 27, 10:01 AM CDT | Flood Watch | PAH | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 14 hr |
| Oct 28, 3:33 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | LOT | DuPage, Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee, Lake | 12 hr |
| Oct 28, 3:38 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ILX | Champaign, DeWitt, Knox, Logan, McLean, Marshall and 6 more | 11 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 | 37 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 6 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 4 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 1 |
| Flood Watch | 1 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 8 |
| Freeze Watch | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 4 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 2 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 1 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 1 |
| Marine | |
| Special Marine Warning | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Will County15
- Cook County14
- DuPage County13
- Kendall County12
- Lake County11
- Ogle County10
- Grundy County10
- Boone County9
- DeKalb County9
- Kane County9
- Kankakee County9
- LaSalle County9
- Lee County9
- Winnebago County9
- McHenry County8
- Stephenson County7
- Bureau County7
- Alexander County6
- Edwards County6
- Franklin County6
- Gallatin County6
- Hamilton County6
- Hardin County6
- Jackson County6
- Jefferson County6
- Johnson County6
- Massac County6
- Perry County6
- Pope County6
- Pulaski County6
- Saline County6
- Union County6
- Wabash County6
- Wayne County6
- White County6
- Williamson County6
- Livingston County6
- Carroll County6
- Whiteside County6
- Iroquois County5
62 more counties
- Jo Daviess County5
- Putnam County5
- Marshall County5
- Ford County4
- Crawford County4
- Jasper County4
- Henry County3
- Rock Island County3
- Stark County3
- Peoria County3
- Woodford County3
- Knox County3
- Champaign County3
- Clark County3
- Coles County3
- Cumberland County3
- DeWitt County3
- Douglas County3
- Edgar County3
- Logan County3
- Piatt County3
- Vermilion County3
- Lawrence County3
- Richland County3
- Cass County2
- Christian County2
- Effingham County2
- Macon County2
- Menard County2
- Morgan County2
- Moultrie County2
- Sangamon County2
- Scott County2
- Shelby County2
- McLean County2
- Tazewell County2
- Clay County2
- Fulton County1
- Mason County1
- Schuyler County1
- Adams County1
- Brown County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- McDonough County1
- Mercer County1
- Warren County1
- Bond County1
- Calhoun County1
- Clinton County1
- Fayette County1
- Greene County1
- Jersey County1
- Macoupin County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Pike County1
- Randolph County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Washington County1
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.