Dust Storm Warnings in Illinois
24 dust storm warnings since 1986. 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 dust storm warnings reaches back to 2005.
Dust Storm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Dust Storm Warnings
- 24
- Busiest year
- 20269 dust storm warnings
- Average year
- 6over 4 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Sangamon County8
- McLean County6
- DeWitt County5
- Logan County5
- Macon County5
- Christian County3
- LaSalle County3
- Shelby County3
- Champaign County3
- Piatt County3
- Woodford County3
- Ford County2
- Grundy County2
- Iroquois County2
- Kankakee County2
- Livingston County2
- Vermilion County2
- Cook County2
- DeKalb County2
- Kendall County2
- Will County2
- Montgomery County1
- Tazewell County1
- DuPage County1
- Kane County1
- Marshall County1
The latest dust storm warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 3:55 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 65 min |
| May 4, 3:32 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | ILX | McLean | 88 min |
| May 4, 3:14 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | ILX | Champaign, DeWitt, McLean, Macon, Piatt | 2 hr |
| May 4, 2:54 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan, McLean, Macon | 2 hr |
| May 3, 2:31 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | ILX | Logan, Sangamon | 59 min |
| May 3, 2:28 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 62 min |
| May 3, 2:19 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon, Shelby | 26 min |
| May 3, 2:02 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | ILX | Logan, Sangamon | 28 min |
| May 3, 1:38 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 52 min |
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. Rebuilt daily.