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Fire Weather Watches in Illinois, 2020
9 fire weather watches in 2020. 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 fire weather watches reaches back to 2005.
Fire Weather Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Fire Weather Watches
- 9
- Busiest month
- October7 fire weather watches
- Busiest day
- October 16, 20205 fire weather watches
Over time
By month
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 2:40 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | LSX | Adams | 13 hr |
| Mar 4, 2:56 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | DVN | Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer, Warren | 12 hr |
| Oct 13, 2:42 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | LSX | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Fayette, Greene and 7 more | 13 hr |
| Oct 13, 2:59 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | ILX | Cass, Christian, Menard, Morgan, Sangamon, Schuyler and 1 more | 13 hr |
| Oct 16, 3:52 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles and 23 more | 11 hr |
| Oct 16, 3:52 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | LOT | Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee, Livingston | 11 hr |
| Oct 16, 4:45 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | LSX | Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jersey and 9 more | 10 hr |
| Oct 16, 2:29 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | ILX | Fulton, Knox, Marshall, Peoria, Schuyler, Stark | 12 hr |
| Oct 16, 2:52 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | LOT | Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kendall and 3 more | 12 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adams County2
- Bond County2
- Calhoun County2
- Fayette County2
- Greene County2
- Jersey County2
- Macoupin County2
- Madison County2
- Monroe County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pike County2
- Saint Clair County2
- Cass County2
- Christian County2
- Menard County2
- Morgan County2
- Sangamon County2
- Schuyler County2
- Scott County2
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- McDonough County1
- Mercer County1
- Warren County1
- Brown County1
- Champaign County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Coles County1
- Crawford County1
- Cumberland County1
- DeWitt County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Effingham County1
- Jasper County1
- Lawrence County1
- Logan County1
- McLean County1
- Macon County1
30 more counties
- Mason County1
- Moultrie County1
- Piatt County1
- Richland County1
- Shelby County1
- Tazewell County1
- Vermilion County1
- Woodford County1
- Ford County1
- Iroquois County1
- Kankakee County1
- Livingston County1
- Clinton County1
- Marion County1
- Randolph County1
- Washington County1
- Fulton County1
- Knox County1
- Marshall County1
- Peoria County1
- Stark County1
- Cook County1
- DeKalb County1
- DuPage County1
- Grundy County1
- Kane County1
- Kendall County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lee County1
- Will County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.