Alert archive / Illinois / Ford County

Weather alerts in Ford County, Illinois, 2024

93 weather alerts in 2024, 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 in 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
93
Warnings
12
Watches
15
Advisories
31
Busiest month
May16 alerts
Busiest day
July 15, 20248 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

0 of 1 tornado reports fell inside a warning.

Ford County, 2024

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings010%
Severe thunderstorm warnings770%1776%17 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2024

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Chicago, IL: tornado warnings342041%5869%17 min
NWS Chicago, IL: severe thunderstorm warnings1558843%54979%30 min
NWS Chicago, IL: flash flood warnings22673%7272%85 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 8, 3:00 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryLOT47 hr
Jan 11, 2:22 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryLOT46 hr
Jan 13, 3:29 AM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryLOT4 days
Jan 13, 2:17 PM CSTWind Chill WarningLOT70 hr
Jan 18, 3:41 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryLOT26 hr
Jan 19, 3:28 AM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryLOT30 hr
Jan 21, 2:42 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryLOT42 hr
Jan 22, 9:17 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
Jan 23, 1:57 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryLOT22 hr
Jan 23, 2:04 PM CSTFlood WatchLOT4 days
Jan 24, 2:57 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryLOT30 hr
Jan 26, 1:22 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryLOT33 hr
Feb 6, 1:34 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryLOT10 hr
Feb 26, 3:05 AM CSTRed Flag WarningLOT15 hr
Feb 27, 2:35 PM CSTWind AdvisoryLOT15 hr
Feb 27, 2:50 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Feb 27, 3:53 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Mar 14, 3:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Mar 14, 5:35 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC85 min
Mar 14, 7:26 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLOT34 min
Mar 14, 7:39 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Mar 14, 3:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC65 min
Mar 26, 9:16 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLOT59 min
Mar 29, 8:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC83 min
Apr 1, 8:10 PM CDTFlood WatchLOT5 hr
Apr 2, 3:15 AM CDTWind AdvisoryLOT17 hr
Apr 2, 1:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLOT43 min
Apr 2, 1:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLOT58 min
Apr 16, 3:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Apr 20, 8:47 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryLOT11 hr
Apr 21, 2:29 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryLOT18 hr
Apr 24, 2:58 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryLOT17 hr
May 7, 12:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 7, 1:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC12 hr
May 7, 2:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC67 min
May 13, 11:40 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLOT35 min
May 13, 4:24 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOT7 hr
May 17, 2:42 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryLOT6 hr
May 19, 5:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLOT46 min
May 19, 5:20 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOT3 hr
May 21, 10:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLOT26 min
May 21, 10:20 PM CDTWind AdvisoryLOT6 hr
May 24, 6:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr
May 24, 1:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT68 min
May 24, 4:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLOT63 min
May 26, 9:11 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLOT49 min
May 27, 8:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLOT45 min
May 27, 9:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLOT54 min
Jun 13, 1:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC118 min
Jun 13, 1:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jun 13, 4:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC89 min
Jun 13, 8:15 PM CDTFlood WatchLOT4 hr
Jun 13, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT38 min
Jun 13, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT66 min
Jun 13, 9:21 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOT3 hr
Jun 17, 12:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLOT30 min
Jun 25, 2:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT61 min
Jun 25, 8:01 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC119 min
Jun 25, 11:43 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC92 min
Jul 9, 2:20 AM CDTFlood WatchLOT30 hr
Jul 9, 8:07 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOT3 hr
Jul 14, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr
Jul 14, 10:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC83 min
Jul 15, 12:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT48 min
Jul 15, 12:54 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 15, 4:07 AM CDTHeat AdvisoryLOT15 hr
Jul 15, 12:52 PM CDTFlood WatchLOT14 hr
Jul 15, 1:59 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jul 15, 6:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
Jul 15, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 15, 8:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 15, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLOT62 min
Jul 15, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLOT74 min
Jul 24, 1:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
Aug 1, 4:39 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLOT51 min
Aug 16, 1:19 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC116 min
Aug 16, 2:18 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOT3 hr
Aug 16, 10:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLOT45 min
Aug 24, 2:32 PM CDTExcessive Heat WatchLOT48 hr
Aug 25, 2:13 PM CDTExcessive Heat WarningLOT54 hr
Aug 27, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Aug 29, 5:29 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryLOT3 hr
Aug 30, 3:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Sep 26, 2:47 PM CDTWind AdvisoryLOT33 hr
Oct 15, 3:29 AM CDTFrost AdvisoryLOT30 hr
Oct 16, 1:54 PM CDTFreeze WarningLOT19 hr
Oct 28, 1:59 PM CDTFire Weather WatchLOT13 hr
Oct 29, 2:43 AM CDTRed Flag WarningLOT18 hr
Nov 4, 1:57 PM CSTWind AdvisoryLOT22 hr
Nov 21, 3:59 AM CSTWind AdvisoryLOT10 hr
Dec 4, 2:19 AM CSTWind AdvisoryLOT22 hr
Dec 15, 2:48 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryLOT9 hr
Dec 15, 3:12 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryLOT20 hr

By product

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

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.