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Gale Watches in Illinois, 2016

33 gale watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Gale Watches
33
Busiest month
December8 gale watches
Busiest day
January 4, 20161 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 4, 7:34 AM CSTGale WatchLOT7 hr
Jan 8, 3:03 AM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Jan 11, 3:43 AM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Jan 27, 3:43 PM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Jan 28, 4:05 PM CSTGale WatchLOT17 hr
Feb 1, 3:00 AM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Feb 11, 3:05 AM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Feb 17, 3:17 AM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Mar 14, 2:56 PM CDTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Mar 22, 3:02 AM CDTGale WatchLOT36 hr
Mar 30, 3:40 AM CDTGale WatchLOT24 hr
Mar 31, 2:56 PM CDTGale WatchLOT36 hr
Apr 2, 3:34 PM CDTGale WatchLOT6 hr
Apr 4, 4:11 PM CDTGale WatchLOT23 hr
Apr 7, 3:11 PM CDTGale WatchLOT6 hr
Apr 8, 3:08 PM CDTGale WatchLOT24 hr
Apr 24, 2:44 PM CDTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Aug 19, 4:24 PM CDTGale WatchLOT11 hr
Oct 13, 3:03 PM CDTGale WatchLOT6 hr
Oct 24, 2:59 PM CDTGale WatchLOT13 hr
Oct 25, 3:44 AM CDTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Oct 27, 3:35 AM CDTGale WatchLOT10 hr
Oct 30, 3:00 AM CDTGale WatchLOT36 hr
Nov 11, 2:58 AM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Nov 26, 3:08 AM CSTGale WatchLOT36 hr
Dec 6, 3:40 AM CSTGale WatchLOT11 hr
Dec 12, 2:53 PM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Dec 16, 3:05 AM CSTGale WatchLOT24 hr
Dec 17, 8:30 PM CSTGale WatchLOT19 hr
Dec 24, 2:59 AM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Dec 25, 3:27 AM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Dec 27, 3:41 PM CSTGale WatchLOT23 hr
Dec 29, 3:22 PM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 4, 20161gale watches
  2. January 8, 20161gale watches
  3. January 11, 20161gale watches
  4. January 27, 20161gale watches
  5. January 28, 20161gale watches
  6. February 1, 20161gale watches
  7. February 11, 20161gale watches
  8. February 17, 20161gale watches
  9. March 14, 20161gale watches
  10. March 22, 20161gale watches
  11. March 30, 20161gale watches
  12. March 31, 20161gale watches

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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.