Alert archive / Illinois / 2015
Weather alerts in Illinois, October 2015
45 weather alerts in October 2015, 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 45
- Warnings
- 16
- Watches
- 8
- Advisories
- 19
- Busiest day
- October 16, 20156 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 1, 4:04 AM CDT | Lakeshore Flood Statement | LOT | Lake | 23 hr |
| Oct 1, 3:55 PM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 11 hr | |
| Oct 2, 3:06 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 49 hr | |
| Oct 2, 3:28 AM CDT | Lakeshore Flood Advisory | LOT | Lake | 49 hr |
| Oct 3, 2:58 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 36 hr | |
| Oct 7, 1:48 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | LOT | Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee, Livingston | 7 hr |
| Oct 7, 2:18 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | ILX | Champaign, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, DeWitt, Douglas and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 8, 3:19 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 48 hr | |
| Oct 10, 3:32 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 51 hr | |
| Oct 11, 2:58 PM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 42 hr | |
| Oct 12, 3:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hardin | 2 hr |
| Oct 13, 3:14 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 31 hr | |
| Oct 15, 3:17 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 61 hr | |
| Oct 15, 3:43 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | LOT | Boone, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois and 10 more | 24 hr |
| Oct 15, 2:56 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Cumberland and 23 more | 12 hr |
| Oct 15, 3:08 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | DVN | Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 7 more | 13 hr |
| Oct 16, 2:36 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | LSX | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette and 11 more | 29 hr |
| Oct 16, 2:45 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | ILX | Clay, Crawford, Effingham, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland | 11 hr |
| Oct 16, 2:45 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles and 29 more | 30 hr |
| Oct 16, 3:13 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | LOT | Boone, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois and 10 more | 30 hr |
| Oct 16, 3:45 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | DVN | Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 7 more | 29 hr |
| Oct 16, 3:48 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | PAH | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 28 hr |
| Oct 17, 2:52 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | LSX | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette and 11 more | 29 hr |
| Oct 17, 3:35 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | PAH | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 28 hr |
| Oct 17, 2:00 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | PAH | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 18 hr |
| Oct 17, 2:33 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles and 26 more | 18 hr |
| Oct 17, 3:43 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | LSX | Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Macoupin, Marion, Montgomery and 2 more | 16 hr |
| Oct 18, 3:04 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 40 hr | |
| Oct 18, 3:04 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 30 hr | |
| Oct 18, 2:15 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DVN | Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 7 more | 29 hr |
| Oct 18, 3:15 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | ILX | Fulton, Knox, Marshall, Peoria, Schuyler, Stark | 12 hr |
| Oct 18, 4:20 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | LSX | Adams, Brown, Pike | 11 hr |
| Oct 19, 3:23 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LOT | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy and 12 more | 16 hr |
| Oct 19, 3:24 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ILX | Champaign, DeWitt, Fulton, Knox, Logan, McLean and 9 more | 16 hr |
| Oct 19, 3:28 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LSX | Adams, Brown, Pike | 16 hr |
| Oct 19, 9:07 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 28 hr | |
| Oct 22, 3:31 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 66 hr | |
| Oct 24, 3:24 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 19 hr | |
| Oct 26, 2:49 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 37 hr | |
| Oct 27, 3:49 AM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 12 hr | |
| Oct 27, 3:28 PM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 47 hr | |
| Oct 27, 9:06 PM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 12 hr | |
| Oct 27, 9:06 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 18 hr | |
| Oct 29, 2:46 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 13 hr | |
| Oct 31, 3:12 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 31 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 | |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 1 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 6 |
| Freeze Watch | 4 |
| Frost Advisory | 4 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 4 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 2 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 2 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Lakeshore Flood Advisory | 1 |
| Lakeshore Flood Statement | 1 |
| Marine | |
| Gale Warning | 6 |
| Gale Watch | 2 |
| Small Craft Advisory | 12 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lake County5
- Champaign County5
- DeWitt County5
- McLean County5
- Piatt County5
- Vermilion County5
- Fulton County5
- Peoria County5
- Schuyler County5
- Ford County4
- Iroquois County4
- Kankakee County4
- Livingston County4
- Clark County4
- Coles County4
- Cumberland County4
- Douglas County4
- Edgar County4
- Macon County4
- Moultrie County4
- Hardin County4
- Knox County4
- Logan County4
- Marshall County4
- Mason County4
- Stark County4
- Tazewell County4
- Woodford County4
- Adams County4
- Brown County4
- Pike County4
- Boone County3
- DeKalb County3
- DuPage County3
- Grundy County3
- Kane County3
- Kendall County3
- LaSalle County3
- Lee County3
- McHenry County3
62 more counties
- Ogle County3
- Winnebago County3
- Cass County3
- Christian County3
- Menard County3
- Morgan County3
- Sangamon County3
- Scott County3
- Shelby County3
- Bureau County3
- Carroll County3
- Hancock County3
- Henderson County3
- Henry County3
- Jo Daviess County3
- McDonough County3
- Mercer County3
- Putnam County3
- Rock Island County3
- Stephenson County3
- Warren County3
- Whiteside County3
- Bond County3
- Clinton County3
- Fayette County3
- Macoupin County3
- Marion County3
- Montgomery County3
- Randolph County3
- Washington County3
- Clay County3
- Crawford County3
- Effingham County3
- Jasper County3
- Lawrence County3
- Richland County3
- Alexander County3
- Edwards County3
- Franklin County3
- Gallatin County3
- Hamilton County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Johnson County3
- Massac County3
- Perry County3
- Pope County3
- Pulaski County3
- Saline County3
- Union County3
- Wabash County3
- Wayne County3
- White County3
- Williamson County3
- Calhoun County2
- Greene County2
- Jersey County2
- Madison County2
- Monroe County2
- Saint Clair County2
- Cook County1
- Will 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.