Alert archive / Illinois / 2008
Weather alerts in Illinois, October 2008
45 weather alerts in October 2008, 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 45
- Warnings
- 17
- Watches
- 7
- Advisories
- 21
- Busiest day
- October 25, 20088 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 4:19 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 71 hr | |
| Oct 9, 11:58 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 7 hr | |
| Oct 14, 2:09 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 8 hr | |
| Oct 15, 3:31 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 36 hr | |
| Oct 16, 2:59 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 7 more | 15 hr |
| Oct 16, 3:28 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | ILX | Fulton, Knox, Marshall, Schuyler, Stark | 16 hr |
| Oct 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | LOT | Boone, DeKalb, Grundy, Kane, Kendall, LaSalle and 4 more | 15 hr |
| Oct 18, 3:08 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DVN | Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 7 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 18, 3:29 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | ILX | Fulton, Knox, Marshall, Peoria, Schuyler, Stark | 6 hr |
| Oct 18, 5:17 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | LOT | Lee, Ogle, Winnebago | 5 hr |
| Oct 18, 10:55 PM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 23 hr | |
| Oct 19, 3:44 AM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 24 hr | |
| Oct 19, 10:08 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 11 hr | |
| Oct 20, 3:57 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 4 days | |
| Oct 20, 3:29 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Bureau, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, McDonough, Mercer and 3 more | 18 hr |
| Oct 20, 3:29 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | DVN | Jo Daviess | 18 hr |
| Oct 24, 3:30 AM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 24 hr | |
| Oct 24, 4:16 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 37 hr | |
| Oct 25, 3:39 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 54 hr | |
| Oct 25, 3:39 AM CDT | Storm Warning | LOT | 39 hr | |
| Oct 25, 4:18 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | LOT | Boone, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois and 10 more | 40 hr |
| Oct 25, 10:51 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | DVN | Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 7 more | 33 hr |
| Oct 25, 2:51 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas and 21 more | 30 hr |
| Oct 25, 3:50 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | LSX | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin and 2 more | 12 hr |
| Oct 25, 3:50 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | LSX | Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jersey and 8 more | 35 hr |
| Oct 25, 3:50 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | LSX | Adams, Brown, Pike | 29 hr |
| Oct 26, 3:36 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | LSX | Adams, Brown, Pike | 24 hr |
| Oct 26, 3:47 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas and 21 more | 23 hr |
| Oct 26, 4:06 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | DVN | Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 7 more | 22 hr |
| Oct 26, 4:35 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | PAH | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 33 hr |
| Oct 26, 11:12 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | DVN | Bureau, Henderson, Henry, Mercer, Putnam, Rock Island and 2 more | 9 hr |
| Oct 26, 3:50 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | LOT | Boone, DeKalb, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kane and 7 more | 11 hr |
| Oct 27, 3:16 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | LSX | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette and 11 more | 30 hr |
| Oct 27, 3:36 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | DVN | Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 7 more | 29 hr |
| Oct 27, 3:37 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles and 29 more | 29 hr |
| Oct 27, 4:05 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | LOT | Boone, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois and 10 more | 29 hr |
| Oct 27, 4:21 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | PAH | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 31 hr |
| Oct 27, 4:21 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | PAH | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 29 hr |
| Oct 27, 10:15 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 57 hr | |
| Oct 28, 11:48 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | PAH | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 21 hr |
| Oct 29, 4:03 AM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 11 hr | |
| Oct 29, 11:25 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | PAH | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 21 hr |
| Oct 29, 3:25 PM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 36 hr | |
| Oct 30, 4:00 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 12 hr | |
| Oct 31, 4:05 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 17 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 11 |
| Freeze Watch | 4 |
| Frost Advisory | 5 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 1 |
| Wind Advisory | 4 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 3 |
| Marine | |
| Gale Warning | 4 |
| Storm Warning | 1 |
| Gale Watch | 3 |
| Small Craft Advisory | 9 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bureau County7
- Henderson County7
- Henry County7
- Mercer County7
- Putnam County7
- Rock Island County7
- Warren County7
- Hancock County6
- Jo Daviess County6
- McDonough County6
- Whiteside County6
- Carroll County5
- Stephenson County5
- Fulton County5
- Knox County5
- Marshall County5
- Schuyler County5
- Stark County5
- Lee County5
- Ogle County5
- Winnebago County5
- Alexander County5
- Edwards County5
- Franklin County5
- Gallatin County5
- Hamilton County5
- Hardin County5
- Jackson County5
- Jefferson County5
- Johnson County5
- Massac County5
- Perry County5
- Pope County5
- Pulaski County5
- Saline County5
- Union County5
- Wabash County5
- Wayne County5
- White County5
- Williamson County5
60 more counties
- Boone County4
- DeKalb County4
- Grundy County4
- Kane County4
- Kendall County4
- LaSalle County4
- McHenry County4
- Peoria County4
- Adams County4
- Brown County4
- Pike County4
- Ford County3
- Iroquois County3
- Livingston County3
- Cass County3
- Champaign County3
- Christian County3
- Coles County3
- DeWitt County3
- Douglas County3
- Edgar County3
- Logan County3
- McLean County3
- Macon County3
- Mason County3
- Menard County3
- Morgan County3
- Moultrie County3
- Piatt County3
- Sangamon County3
- Scott County3
- Shelby County3
- Tazewell County3
- Vermilion County3
- Woodford County3
- Calhoun County3
- Greene County3
- Jersey County3
- Macoupin County3
- Montgomery County3
- DuPage County2
- Kankakee County2
- Lake County2
- Bond County2
- Clinton County2
- Fayette County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Randolph County2
- Saint Clair County2
- Washington County2
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Crawford County1
- Cumberland County1
- Effingham County1
- Jasper County1
- Lawrence County1
- Richland 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.