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Gale Warnings in Illinois, 2025
34 gale warnings in 2025. 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 in 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Gale Warnings
- 34
- Busiest month
- March7 gale warnings
- Busiest day
- October 20, 20252 gale warnings
Over time
By month
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 8:58 AM CST | Gale Warning | LOT | 36 hr | |
| Jan 27, 9:19 PM CST | Gale Warning | LOT | 25 hr | |
| Feb 5, 3:54 AM CST | Gale Warning | LOT | 47 hr | |
| Feb 15, 9:57 AM CST | Gale Warning | LOT | 36 hr | |
| Feb 27, 3:09 PM CST | Gale Warning | LOT | 31 hr | |
| Mar 4, 3:07 PM CST | Gale Warning | LOT | 39 hr | |
| Mar 13, 4:00 PM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 39 hr | |
| Mar 15, 8:45 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 10 hr | |
| Mar 18, 2:57 PM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 46 hr | |
| Mar 21, 3:50 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 17 hr | |
| Mar 23, 3:41 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 35 hr | |
| Mar 27, 10:13 PM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 29 hr | |
| Apr 1, 3:42 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 39 hr | |
| Apr 6, 8:52 PM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 22 hr | |
| Apr 14, 11:06 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 23 hr | |
| Apr 18, 3:45 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 17 hr | |
| Apr 20, 3:04 PM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 28 hr | |
| Apr 28, 3:49 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 33 hr | |
| May 15, 3:21 PM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 31 hr | |
| May 20, 3:32 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 12 hr | |
| Jun 3, 12:44 PM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 12 hr | |
| Jun 20, 3:22 PM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 31 hr | |
| Sep 4, 3:03 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 31 hr | |
| Oct 18, 4:15 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 42 hr | |
| Oct 20, 10:04 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 17 hr | |
| Oct 20, 2:46 PM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 48 hr | |
| Nov 8, 3:38 PM CST | Gale Warning | LOT | 38 hr | |
| Nov 25, 3:38 AM CST | Gale Warning | LOT | 26 hr | |
| Nov 26, 3:06 AM CST | Gale Warning | LOT | 35 hr | |
| Dec 9, 4:26 AM CST | Gale Warning | LOT | 37 hr | |
| Dec 14, 3:10 PM CST | Gale Warning | LOT | 18 hr | |
| Dec 17, 3:00 PM CST | Gale Warning | LOT | 45 hr | |
| Dec 19, 7:52 PM CST | Gale Warning | LOT | 13 hr | |
| Dec 27, 10:18 PM CST | Gale Warning | LOT | 47 hr |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.