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Gale Watches in Illinois, 2012
35 gale watches in 2012. 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 in 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Gale Watches
- 35
- Busiest month
- January6 gale watches
- Busiest day
- January 8, 20121 gale watches
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 8, 2:26 AM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 12 hr | |
| Jan 11, 3:22 PM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 12 hr | |
| Jan 14, 3:39 PM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 12 hr | |
| Jan 20, 3:07 PM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 25 hr | |
| Jan 22, 3:59 AM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 24 hr | |
| Jan 26, 9:42 PM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 17 hr | |
| Feb 25, 3:34 AM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 11 hr | |
| Mar 1, 3:03 PM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 12 hr | |
| Mar 4, 3:07 PM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 13 hr | |
| Mar 9, 3:29 AM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 12 hr | |
| Mar 25, 2:48 PM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 13 hr | |
| Apr 13, 3:02 PM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 37 hr | |
| Apr 15, 3:48 AM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 24 hr | |
| Apr 19, 3:25 AM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 11 hr | |
| Apr 22, 3:22 PM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 7 hr | |
| May 23, 3:18 AM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 24 hr | |
| Jun 17, 10:09 AM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 18 hr | |
| Aug 9, 4:30 AM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 11 hr | |
| Aug 29, 3:23 PM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 12 hr | |
| Sep 9, 3:20 PM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 24 hr | |
| Sep 17, 3:05 PM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 21 hr | |
| Sep 23, 3:20 AM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 12 hr | |
| Oct 3, 3:34 PM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 13 hr | |
| Oct 6, 3:28 PM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 12 hr | |
| Oct 9, 10:08 PM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 17 hr | |
| Oct 12, 3:21 PM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 5 hr | |
| Oct 13, 3:06 AM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 12 hr | |
| Oct 27, 4:00 PM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 24 hr | |
| Nov 8, 2:02 PM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 25 hr | |
| Nov 9, 10:02 PM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 5 hr | |
| Nov 21, 3:02 PM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 13 hr | |
| Dec 4, 8:34 PM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 7 hr | |
| Dec 11, 7:54 AM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 20 hr | |
| Dec 18, 3:21 AM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 13 hr | |
| Dec 24, 2:38 PM CST | Gale Watch | LOT | 17 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.