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Gale Watches in Illinois, 2017

37 gale watches in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Gale Watches
37
Busiest month
February7 gale watches
Busiest day
January 3, 20171 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 3, 4:01 AM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Jan 7, 3:01 PM CSTGale WatchLOT13 hr
Jan 9, 4:04 AM CSTGale WatchLOT11 hr
Jan 29, 3:01 PM CSTGale WatchLOT24 hr
Feb 3, 3:37 AM CSTGale WatchLOT17 hr
Feb 6, 3:32 PM CSTGale WatchLOT13 hr
Feb 9, 4:01 AM CSTGale WatchLOT5 hr
Feb 11, 3:18 AM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Feb 22, 2:56 AM CSTGale WatchLOT24 hr
Feb 24, 3:26 AM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Feb 28, 3:48 AM CSTGale WatchLOT11 hr
Mar 4, 3:07 PM CSTGale WatchLOT24 hr
Apr 3, 2:59 PM CDTGale WatchLOT24 hr
Apr 4, 3:24 AM CDTGale WatchLOT60 hr
Apr 28, 3:50 PM CDTGale WatchLOT24 hr
Apr 30, 3:12 PM CDTGale WatchLOT12 hr
May 3, 4:01 PM CDTGale WatchLOT11 hr
May 5, 3:15 AM CDTGale WatchLOT24 hr
May 16, 3:00 PM CDTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Aug 3, 2:41 AM CDTGale WatchLOT13 hr
Oct 5, 2:41 PM CDTGale WatchLOT24 hr
Oct 13, 2:58 PM CDTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Oct 14, 3:18 AM CDTGale WatchLOT6 hr
Oct 16, 2:47 PM CDTGale WatchLOT24 hr
Oct 23, 3:05 AM CDTGale WatchLOT24 hr
Oct 29, 3:05 AM CDTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Nov 8, 3:23 AM CSTGale WatchLOT11 hr
Nov 13, 2:51 PM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Nov 16, 3:18 AM CSTGale WatchLOT11 hr
Nov 19, 3:04 PM CSTGale WatchLOT6 hr
Nov 22, 1:57 PM CSTGale WatchLOT25 hr
Nov 26, 2:29 PM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Dec 2, 2:43 PM CSTGale WatchLOT24 hr
Dec 8, 3:02 AM CSTGale WatchLOT6 hr
Dec 10, 2:31 PM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Dec 17, 2:28 AM CSTGale WatchLOT25 hr
Dec 24, 2:47 AM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 3, 20171gale watches
  2. January 7, 20171gale watches
  3. January 9, 20171gale watches
  4. January 29, 20171gale watches
  5. February 3, 20171gale watches
  6. February 6, 20171gale watches
  7. February 9, 20171gale watches
  8. February 11, 20171gale watches
  9. February 22, 20171gale watches
  10. February 24, 20171gale watches
  11. February 28, 20171gale watches
  12. March 4, 20171gale watches

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.