Weather alerts in Ford County, Illinois

3,083 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Ford County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 3,083
Warnings: 681
Watches: 597
Advisories: 758
Busiest year: 2010174 alerts
Average year: 75over 41 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 product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	384
Tornado Warning	59
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	287
Tornado Watch	133
Mesoscale Discussion	829
Special Weather Statement	218
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	31
Flash Flood Warning	79
Flash Flood Watch	53
Flood Watch	44
Areal Flood Advisory	131
Winter
Blizzard Warning	3
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	3
Snow Squall Warning	2
Winter Storm Warning	28
Blizzard Watch	3
Winter Storm Watch	30
Blowing Snow Advisory	3
Freezing Rain Advisory	19
Snow Advisory	9
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Winter Weather Advisory	116
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	10
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	9
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	57
Cold
Freeze Warning	28
Wind Chill Warning	7
Freeze Watch	10
Wind Chill Watch	4
Cold Weather Advisory	8
Frost Advisory	43
Wind Chill Advisory	43
Wind and dust
Dust Storm Warning	2
High Wind Warning	13
High Wind Watch	8
Blowing Dust Advisory	3
Dust Storm Advisory	1
Wind Advisory	144
Fire
Red Flag Warning	29
Fire Weather Watch	15
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	171
Freezing Fog Advisory	8

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 15, 8:04 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LOT	9 hr
Aug 15, 3:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	LOT	5 hr
Aug 15, 1:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOT	6 hr
Aug 14, 7:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LOT	15 hr
Aug 14, 1:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	LOT	6 hr
Aug 14, 12:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOT	3 hr
Aug 13, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	47 min
Aug 11, 1:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	34 min
Aug 10, 1:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOT	58 min
Aug 10, 1:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	93 min
Aug 10, 1:31 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	29 min
Aug 10, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	55 min

Nearby

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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.