Alert archive / Illinois / Blowing Dust Advisories / 2026
Blowing Dust Advisories in Illinois, May 2026
7 blowing dust advisories in May 2026. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of blowing dust advisories reaches back to 2005.
Blowing Dust Advisories by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Blowing Dust Advisories
- 7
- Busiest day
- May 3, 20262 blowing dust advisories
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 1:33 PM CDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas and 17 more | 5 hr |
| May 3, 2:36 PM CDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | LSX | Fayette, Greene, Macoupin, Montgomery | 4 hr |
| May 4, 2:37 AM CDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas and 14 more | 16 hr |
| May 4, 2:59 AM CDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | LOT | Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, Kendall, LaSalle and 2 more | 15 hr |
| May 12, 1:43 AM CDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas and 21 more | 17 hr |
| May 12, 9:36 AM CDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | LOT | Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, LaSalle, Livingston and 1 more | 9 hr |
| May 17, 5:40 PM CDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, DeWitt, Logan, McLean and 10 more | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cass County4
- Champaign County4
- Christian County4
- DeWitt County4
- Logan County4
- McLean County4
- Macon County4
- Mason County4
- Menard County4
- Morgan County4
- Piatt County4
- Sangamon County4
- Tazewell County4
- Vermilion County4
- Woodford County4
- Coles County3
- Douglas County3
- Edgar County3
- Moultrie County3
- Scott County3
- Shelby County3
- Knox County2
- Peoria County2
- Ford County2
- Grundy County2
- Iroquois County2
- Kankakee County2
- LaSalle County2
- Livingston County2
- Will County2
- Fayette County1
- Greene County1
- Macoupin County1
- Montgomery County1
- Kendall County1
- Fulton County1
- Marshall County1
- Schuyler County1
- Stark County1
Nearby
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.