Weather alerts in Illinois, January 2016

74 weather alerts in January 2016, 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 74
Warnings: 19
Watches: 10
Advisories: 43
Busiest day: January 8, 20167 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
Dec 31, 6:56 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LSX	Clinton	61 days
Jan 1, 2:23 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	ILX	Sangamon	48 hr
Jan 1, 3:10 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	LOT		3 days
Jan 1, 7:28 PM CST	Flash Flood Watch	PAH	Alexander, Jackson, Union	40 hr
Jan 3, 3:27 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	LOT		39 hr
Jan 4, 7:34 AM CST	Gale Watch	LOT		7 hr
Jan 4, 3:03 PM CST	Gale Warning	LOT		36 hr
Jan 8, 3:03 AM CST	Gale Watch	LOT		12 hr
Jan 8, 6:21 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DVN	Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 7 more	17 hr
Jan 8, 8:41 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ILX	Cass, DeWitt, Fulton, Knox, Logan, McLean and 8 more	3 hr
Jan 8, 2:16 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LOT	Boone, DeKalb, Kane, Kendall, Lake, LaSalle and 4 more	13 hr
Jan 8, 3:08 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	LOT	Iroquois, Kankakee	12 hr
Jan 8, 3:25 PM CST	Gale Warning	LOT		51 hr
Jan 8, 3:25 PM CST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	LOT		12 hr
Jan 9, 3:08 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ILX	Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas and 14 more	16 hr
Jan 9, 3:09 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	LOT	DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, Kendall and 2 more	16 hr
Jan 9, 3:22 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	DVN	Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer, Rock Island, Warren	33 hr
Jan 9, 3:55 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	LSX	Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jersey and 9 more	11 hr
Jan 9, 10:18 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	LOT	LaSalle	3 days
Jan 9, 3:05 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	PAH	Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more	13 hr
Jan 9, 11:33 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	LSX	Adams, Brown, Pike	11 hr
Jan 9, 11:55 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	ILX	Cass, Fulton, Knox, Mason, Menard, Morgan and 3 more	11 hr
Jan 10, 9:05 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	LOT		24 hr
Jan 10, 9:47 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	LOT	LaSalle	57 hr
Jan 10, 9:47 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	LOT	Lake	4 days
Jan 11, 3:43 AM CST	Gale Watch	LOT		12 hr
Jan 11, 9:28 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	LOT		48 hr
Jan 11, 3:27 PM CST	Gale Warning	LOT		30 hr
Jan 12, 5:43 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ILX	Champaign, DeWitt, McLean, Marshall, Piatt, Vermilion and 1 more	3 hr
Jan 12, 6:03 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	DVN	Jo Daviess	6 hr
Jan 13, 1:07 PM CST	River Flood Advisory	LOT	Lee	4 days
Jan 13, 4:15 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LOT	Kendall	42 hr
Jan 13, 4:33 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LOT	Winnebago	5 days
Jan 14, 7:46 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LOT	Lee	5 days
Jan 14, 3:21 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	LOT		4 days
Jan 16, 2:34 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	ILX	Fulton, Knox, Marshall, Peoria, Stark, Tazewell and 1 more	20 hr
Jan 16, 2:39 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	LOT	Boone, DeKalb, Kane, Lake, Lee, McHenry and 2 more	45 hr
Jan 16, 3:14 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	DVN	Bureau, Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Mercer and 5 more	45 hr
Jan 16, 3:16 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	LOT		51 hr
Jan 16, 7:16 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LOT	Lee	62 hr
Jan 17, 3:02 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	LOT	DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, Kendall and 2 more	33 hr
Jan 17, 3:30 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	ILX	Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Cumberland and 24 more	32 hr
Jan 17, 3:32 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	DVN	Hancock, McDonough	30 hr
Jan 17, 4:15 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	LSX	Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Fayette, Greene and 5 more	30 hr
Jan 18, 11:20 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	LOT	Ogle	5 days
Jan 18, 3:21 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DVN	Hancock, McDonough	33 hr
Jan 18, 3:40 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	LSX	Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette and 11 more	36 hr
Jan 18, 11:42 PM CST	River Flood Advisory	LOT	Grundy, Will	11 days
Jan 19, 3:33 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	PAH	Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope and 4 more	9 hr
Jan 19, 3:33 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	PAH	Edwards, Franklin, Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson, Perry and 3 more	9 hr
Jan 19, 3:48 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ILX	Cass, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 16 more	25 hr
Jan 19, 9:21 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	LOT	Winnebago	3 days
Jan 19, 12:04 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more	20 hr
Jan 19, 12:26 PM CST	River Flood Warning	DVN	Henry, Rock Island	13 days
Jan 19, 8:21 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 44 more	3 hr
Jan 20, 5:55 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LSX	Pike	46 hr
Jan 20, 9:36 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LSX	Pike	38 hr
Jan 20, 9:50 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LOT	Kankakee	5 days
Jan 20, 2:43 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	PAH	Hardin	25 hr
Jan 21, 4:42 AM CST	Winter Storm Warning	PAH	Hardin, Massac, Pope	38 hr
Jan 21, 9:46 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	PAH	Alexander, Gallatin, Johnson, Pulaski, Saline	17 hr
Jan 22, 6:46 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LSX	Pike	47 hr
Jan 22, 7:30 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski	4 hr
Jan 22, 7:34 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	PAH	Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope and 3 more	7 hr
Jan 23, 3:35 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	LOT		30 hr
Jan 25, 3:18 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	LOT		54 hr
Jan 26, 3:02 PM CST	Gale Warning	LOT		36 hr
Jan 27, 3:18 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	LOT		54 hr
Jan 27, 3:43 PM CST	Gale Watch	LOT		12 hr
Jan 28, 3:14 AM CST	Gale Warning	LOT		18 hr
Jan 28, 4:05 PM CST	Gale Watch	LOT		17 hr
Jan 29, 8:44 AM CST	Gale Warning	LOT		18 hr
Jan 29, 9:28 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	LOT		24 hr
Jan 31, 3:23 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	DVN	Jo Daviess	24 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	2
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	3
River Flood Warning	8
Flash Flood Watch	1
River Flood Advisory	7
Winter
Winter Storm Warning	2
Winter Storm Watch	4
Winter Weather Advisory	11
Cold
Wind Chill Advisory	11
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	3
Marine
Gale Warning	6
Gale Watch	5
Marine Dense Fog Advisory	1
Small Craft Advisory	10

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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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.