Freeze Watches in Illinois
116 freeze watches since 1986. 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 freeze watches reaches back to 2005.
Freeze Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Freeze Watches
- 116
- Busiest year
- 201214 freeze watches
- Average year
- 6over 20 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 county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hamilton County32
- Wayne County32
- Jefferson County31
- Franklin County30
- Jackson County30
- Union County30
- White County30
- Williamson County30
- Edwards County29
- Gallatin County29
- Perry County29
- Saline County29
- Wabash County29
- Alexander County28
- Johnson County28
- Pulaski County28
- Hardin County27
- Massac County27
- Pope County27
- Clark County17
- Clay County17
- Crawford County17
- Jasper County17
- Lawrence County17
- Richland County17
- DeWitt County17
- Fulton County17
- Lee County16
- Ogle County16
- Winnebago County16
- Bond County16
- Calhoun County16
- Jersey County16
- Randolph County16
- Cumberland County16
- Effingham County16
- Champaign County16
- Knox County16
- Logan County16
- Mason County16
62 more counties
- Peoria County16
- Piatt County16
- Schuyler County16
- Stark County16
- Vermilion County16
- Woodford County16
- Boone County15
- DeKalb County15
- Kane County15
- McHenry County15
- Adams County15
- Brown County15
- Clinton County15
- Fayette County15
- Greene County15
- Macoupin County15
- Madison County15
- Marion County15
- Monroe County15
- Pike County15
- Washington County15
- Whiteside County15
- Cass County15
- Coles County15
- Douglas County15
- Edgar County15
- McLean County15
- Marshall County15
- Menard County15
- Morgan County15
- Moultrie County15
- Sangamon County15
- Scott County15
- Shelby County15
- Tazewell County15
- Kendall County14
- Lake County14
- LaSalle County14
- Montgomery County14
- Saint Clair County14
- Rock Island County14
- Carroll County14
- Christian County14
- Jo Daviess County14
- Macon County14
- Stephenson County14
- Henry County13
- Bureau County12
- Henderson County12
- Putnam County12
- Warren County12
- DuPage County11
- Grundy County11
- Iroquois County11
- Kankakee County11
- Livingston County11
- Hancock County11
- McDonough County11
- Mercer County11
- Ford County10
- Cook County7
- Will County7
The latest freeze watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 1:48 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | ILX | Champaign, DeWitt, Fulton, Knox, Logan, McLean and 8 more | 12 hr |
| Apr 18, 1:29 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | LOT | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy and 12 more | 12 hr |
| Apr 5, 1:04 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | ILX | Champaign, DeWitt, Fulton, Logan, McLean, Mason and 5 more | 25 hr |
Nearby
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.