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Gale Watches in Illinois, 2018

24 gale watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Gale Watches
24
Busiest month
January9 gale watches
Busiest day
January 1, 20181 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 1, 2:35 AM CSTGale WatchLOT24 hr
Jan 5, 3:24 AM CSTGale WatchLOT24 hr
Jan 10, 4:17 PM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Jan 16, 3:09 PM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Jan 18, 2:56 AM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Jan 20, 2:49 AM CSTGale WatchLOT36 hr
Jan 21, 2:32 PM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Jan 25, 2:46 AM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Jan 29, 2:23 AM CSTGale WatchLOT19 hr
Feb 2, 3:44 PM CSTGale WatchLOT24 hr
Feb 17, 2:37 AM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Feb 23, 2:53 AM CSTGale WatchLOT25 hr
Feb 28, 3:52 AM CSTGale WatchLOT18 hr
Mar 4, 2:40 AM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Mar 29, 2:56 PM CDTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Apr 2, 2:54 AM CDTGale WatchLOT18 hr
Apr 5, 3:32 AM CDTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Apr 12, 3:04 AM CDTGale WatchLOT19 hr
Sep 19, 2:53 AM CDTGale WatchLOT6 hr
Oct 9, 3:11 PM CDTGale WatchLOT24 hr
Oct 18, 2:43 PM CDTGale WatchLOT31 hr
Nov 8, 3:50 AM CSTGale WatchLOT17 hr
Nov 24, 3:09 AM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Nov 30, 3:39 AM CSTGale WatchLOT6 hr

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 1, 20181gale watches
  2. January 5, 20181gale watches
  3. January 10, 20181gale watches
  4. January 16, 20181gale watches
  5. January 18, 20181gale watches
  6. January 20, 20181gale watches
  7. January 21, 20181gale watches
  8. January 25, 20181gale watches
  9. January 29, 20181gale watches
  10. February 2, 20181gale watches
  11. February 17, 20181gale watches
  12. February 23, 20181gale 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.