Gale Warnings in Illinois
735 gale warnings 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 gale warnings reaches back to 2005.
Gale Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Gale Warnings
- 735
- Busiest year
- 201261 gale warnings
- Average year
- 39over 19 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
The latest gale warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 1:26 PM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 110 min | |
| Apr 27, 9:35 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 6 hr | |
| Apr 12, 3:58 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 17 hr | |
| Apr 2, 3:39 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 17 hr | |
| Mar 25, 2:41 PM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 39 hr | |
| Mar 22, 7:18 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 18 hr | |
| Mar 14, 8:05 PM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 50 hr | |
| Mar 12, 9:49 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 36 hr | |
| Mar 12, 3:16 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 23 hr | |
| Feb 23, 2:47 PM CST | Gale Warning | LOT | 27 hr | |
| Feb 22, 3:23 AM CST | Gale Warning | LOT | 36 hr | |
| Feb 19, 2:58 PM CST | Gale Warning | LOT | 27 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.