Weather alerts in Franklin County, Illinois

3,113 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Franklin County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,113
Warnings: 750
Watches: 608
Advisories: 774
Busiest year: 2011186 alerts
Average year: 80over 39 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	362
Tornado Warning	65
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	234
Tornado Watch	189
Mesoscale Discussion	867
Special Weather Statement	114
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	32
Flash Flood Warning	89
River Flood Warning	45
Flash Flood Watch	51
Flood Watch	46
Areal Flood Advisory	109
Winter
Blizzard Warning	1
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	32
Blizzard Watch	1
Winter Storm Watch	29
Freezing Rain Advisory	6
Snow Advisory	5
Winter Weather Advisory	96
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	20
Extreme Heat Warning	7
Excessive Heat Watch	8
Extreme Heat Watch	3
Heat Advisory	87
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	56
Hard Freeze Warning	1
Wind Chill Warning	2
Freeze Watch	30
Hard Freeze Watch	1
Wind Chill Watch	1
Cold Weather Advisory	8
Frost Advisory	55
Wind Chill Advisory	17
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	5
High Wind Watch	1
Lake Wind Advisory	134
Wind Advisory	115
Fire
Red Flag Warning	30
Fire Weather Watch	14
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	134
Freezing Fog Advisory	8

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 1, 11:46 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	PAH	4 days
Aug 22, 3:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	17 min
Aug 12, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	44 min
Aug 10, 12:50 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	PAH	7 days
Jul 25, 11:30 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	PAH	68 hr
Jul 20, 8:38 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	PAH	34 hr
Jul 11, 7:26 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	PAH	8 hr
Jul 10, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	28 min
Jul 10, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	40 min
Jun 28, 11:28 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	PAH	5 days
Jun 21, 8:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	18 min
Jun 21, 7:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	44 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.