Gale Watches in Illinois
459 gale 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 gale watches reaches back to 2005.
Gale Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Gale Watches
- 459
- Busiest year
- 201344 gale watches
- Average year
- 24over 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 watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 3:35 AM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 11 hr | |
| Mar 14, 8:05 PM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 8 hr | |
| Mar 14, 3:49 AM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 16 hr | |
| Mar 11, 2:50 PM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 12 hr | |
| Feb 26, 1:45 PM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 14 hr | |
| Feb 21, 3:39 AM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 24 hr | |
| Feb 19, 3:38 AM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 11 hr | |
| Feb 4, 2:37 PM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 19 hr | |
| Jan 17, 2:49 AM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 24 hr | |
| Jan 12, 2:55 PM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 13 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.