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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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 4, 2:40 PM CSTFire Weather WatchLSXAdams13 hr
Mar 4, 2:56 PM CSTFire Weather WatchDVNHancock, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer, Warren12 hr
Oct 13, 2:42 PM CDTFire Weather WatchLSXAdams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Fayette, Greene and 7 more13 hr
Oct 13, 2:59 PM CDTFire Weather WatchILXCass, Christian, Menard, Morgan, Sangamon, Schuyler and 1 more13 hr
Oct 16, 3:52 AM CDTFire Weather WatchILXCass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles and 23 more11 hr
Oct 16, 3:52 AM CDTFire Weather WatchLOTFord, Iroquois, Kankakee, Livingston11 hr
Oct 16, 4:45 AM CDTFire Weather WatchLSXBond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jersey and 9 more10 hr
Oct 16, 2:29 PM CDTFire Weather WatchILXFulton, Knox, Marshall, Peoria, Schuyler, Stark12 hr
Oct 16, 2:52 PM CDTFire Weather WatchLOTCook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kendall and 3 more12 hr

By county

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

30 more counties

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.