Alert archive / Illinois / Flash Flood Warnings
Flash Flood Warnings in Illinois, 1997
53 flash flood warnings in 1997. 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 flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.
Flash Flood Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Warnings
- 53
- Busiest month
- February19 flash flood warnings
- Busiest day
- February 21, 199718 flash flood warnings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 12:13 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Carroll, Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Whiteside | 12 hr |
| Feb 21, 12:13 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Bureau, Putnam | 12 hr |
| Feb 21, 12:13 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Mercer, Rock Island | 12 hr |
| Feb 21, 12:13 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Henderson, McDonough, Warren | 12 hr |
| Feb 21, 12:13 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Hancock | 12 hr |
| Feb 21, 12:13 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Henry | 12 hr |
| Feb 21, 8:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Will | 4 hr |
| Feb 21, 8:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Boone, DeKalb, Lake, McHenry | 4 hr |
| Feb 21, 8:32 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, McHenry and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 21, 8:32 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Grundy, LaSalle, Lee, Livingston | 3 hr |
| Feb 21, 8:32 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee | 3 hr |
| Feb 21, 8:32 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Boone, Ogle, Winnebago | 3 hr |
| Feb 21, 8:32 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Lake | 3 hr |
| Feb 21, 11:35 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Grundy, Kankakee, Livingston | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 11:35 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Boone, Winnebago | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 11:35 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Will | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 11:35 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Cook, Lake, McHenry | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 11:35 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | DeKalb, LaSalle, Lee, Ogle | 6 hr |
| Feb 22, 4:59 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Henry, Rock Island | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 2:46 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Hardin, Massac, Pope | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:13 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Alexander, Johnson, Massac, Pulaski, Union | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:13 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Hardin, Pope | 4 hr |
| May 2, 9:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Hardin, Pope | 3 hr |
| May 28, 4:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Massac | 2 hr |
| May 28, 4:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Pope | 2 hr |
| May 28, 6:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Massac, Pope | 64 min |
| May 30, 9:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Union | 85 min |
| May 30, 11:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Saline | 100 min |
| Jun 6, 4:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Franklin | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 5:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Wayne | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 7:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Douglas | 116 min |
| Jun 15, 11:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Winnebago | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 11:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Boone, McHenry | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Carroll, Jo Daviess, Stephenson | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Carroll, Jo Daviess, Stephenson | 5 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Hancock, Henderson | 5 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | McDonough, Warren | 5 hr |
| Jun 20, 11:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Logan, Mason | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 11:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Monroe, Saint Clair | 5 hr |
| Jun 29, 5:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Adams | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 11:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Hancock | 5 hr |
| Jun 30, 2:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Macon | 2 hr |
| Jun 30, 3:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Champaign | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 7:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Pope | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 7:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Cook | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 12:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Bureau, Henry | 8 hr |
| Aug 17, 12:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Mercer | 8 hr |
| Aug 17, 1:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Ford | 6 hr |
| Aug 17, 1:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Marshall, Woodford | 4 hr |
| Aug 17, 2:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Livingston | 6 hr |
| Aug 17, 3:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Macon, Piatt | 4 hr |
| Aug 17, 3:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Champaign | 4 hr |
| Sep 8, 3:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Mason, Tazewell | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pope County6
- Cook County4
- Boone County4
- McHenry County4
- Massac County4
- Carroll County3
- Jo Daviess County3
- Stephenson County3
- Hancock County3
- Henry County3
- DuPage County3
- Kane County3
- Kendall County3
- Will County3
- DeKalb County3
- Lake County3
- Livingston County3
- Winnebago County3
- Hardin County3
- Bureau County2
- Mercer County2
- Rock Island County2
- Henderson County2
- McDonough County2
- Warren County2
- Grundy County2
- LaSalle County2
- Lee County2
- Ford County2
- Kankakee County2
- Ogle County2
- Union County2
- Mason County2
- Macon County2
- Champaign County2
- Whiteside County1
- Putnam County1
- Iroquois County1
- Alexander County1
- Johnson 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. Rebuilt daily.