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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Fulton County, Illinois, 2025

23 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2025. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Fulton County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
23
Busiest month
April8 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
April 21, 20255 severe thunderstorm warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

10 of 23 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Fulton County in 2025 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 6 of 9 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 24 minutes after it went out.

Fulton County, 2025

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings231057%967%24 min

Each office's whole area, 2025

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Lincoln, IL: severe thunderstorm warnings24511354%49272%19 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
Mar 14, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatILX63 min
Mar 14, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatILX59 min
Mar 19, 2:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX29 min
Mar 19, 2:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX30 min
Mar 21, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX50 min
Apr 2, 9:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX27 min
Apr 10, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX18 min
Apr 20, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatILX45 min
Apr 20, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatILX7 min
Apr 20, 7:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatILX27 min
Apr 20, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatILX34 min
Apr 20, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX31 min
Apr 20, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX32 min
Jun 18, 9:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX25 min
Jun 18, 10:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX24 min
Jul 28, 5:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX28 min
Aug 18, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX35 min
Aug 18, 8:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX31 min
Aug 18, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX52 min
Aug 18, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX34 min
Dec 28, 8:41 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX34 min
Dec 28, 9:12 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX33 min
Dec 28, 1:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX36 min

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.