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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 26, 8:58 AM CSTGale WarningLOT36 hr
Jan 27, 9:19 PM CSTGale WarningLOT25 hr
Feb 5, 3:54 AM CSTGale WarningLOT47 hr
Feb 15, 9:57 AM CSTGale WarningLOT36 hr
Feb 27, 3:09 PM CSTGale WarningLOT31 hr
Mar 4, 3:07 PM CSTGale WarningLOT39 hr
Mar 13, 4:00 PM CDTGale WarningLOT39 hr
Mar 15, 8:45 AM CDTGale WarningLOT10 hr
Mar 18, 2:57 PM CDTGale WarningLOT46 hr
Mar 21, 3:50 AM CDTGale WarningLOT17 hr
Mar 23, 3:41 AM CDTGale WarningLOT35 hr
Mar 27, 10:13 PM CDTGale WarningLOT29 hr
Apr 1, 3:42 AM CDTGale WarningLOT39 hr
Apr 6, 8:52 PM CDTGale WarningLOT22 hr
Apr 14, 11:06 AM CDTGale WarningLOT23 hr
Apr 18, 3:45 AM CDTGale WarningLOT17 hr
Apr 20, 3:04 PM CDTGale WarningLOT28 hr
Apr 28, 3:49 AM CDTGale WarningLOT33 hr
May 15, 3:21 PM CDTGale WarningLOT31 hr
May 20, 3:32 AM CDTGale WarningLOT12 hr
Jun 3, 12:44 PM CDTGale WarningLOT12 hr
Jun 20, 3:22 PM CDTGale WarningLOT31 hr
Sep 4, 3:03 AM CDTGale WarningLOT31 hr
Oct 18, 4:15 AM CDTGale WarningLOT42 hr
Oct 20, 10:04 AM CDTGale WarningLOT17 hr
Oct 20, 2:46 PM CDTGale WarningLOT48 hr
Nov 8, 3:38 PM CSTGale WarningLOT38 hr
Nov 25, 3:38 AM CSTGale WarningLOT26 hr
Nov 26, 3:06 AM CSTGale WarningLOT35 hr
Dec 9, 4:26 AM CSTGale WarningLOT37 hr
Dec 14, 3:10 PM CSTGale WarningLOT18 hr
Dec 17, 3:00 PM CSTGale WarningLOT45 hr
Dec 19, 7:52 PM CSTGale WarningLOT13 hr
Dec 27, 10:18 PM CSTGale WarningLOT47 hr

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. Rebuilt daily.