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Gale Watches in Illinois, 2021

17 gale watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Gale Watches
17
Busiest month
March3 gale watches
Busiest day
January 24, 20211 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 24, 2:48 PM CSTGale WatchLOT6 hr
Feb 3, 6:27 AM CSTGale WatchLOT9 hr
Mar 9, 3:50 AM CSTGale WatchLOT11 hr
Mar 16, 3:13 PM CDTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Mar 24, 3:52 AM CDTGale WatchLOT11 hr
Apr 29, 2:00 PM CDTGale WatchLOT25 hr
May 26, 3:46 AM CDTGale WatchLOT42 hr
May 27, 9:52 PM CDTGale WatchLOT5 hr
Sep 6, 3:00 AM CDTGale WatchLOT18 hr
Sep 21, 3:44 AM CDTGale WatchLOT11 hr
Sep 23, 8:59 PM CDTGale WatchLOT6 hr
Oct 22, 3:52 PM CDTGale WatchLOT23 hr
Nov 13, 3:58 AM CSTGale WatchLOT11 hr
Nov 19, 3:03 PM CSTGale WatchLOT24 hr
Dec 4, 3:15 AM CSTGale WatchLOT24 hr
Dec 9, 3:32 AM CSTGale WatchLOT25 hr
Dec 13, 3:06 PM CSTGale WatchLOT30 hr

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 24, 20211gale watches
  2. February 3, 20211gale watches
  3. March 9, 20211gale watches
  4. March 16, 20211gale watches
  5. March 24, 20211gale watches
  6. April 29, 20211gale watches
  7. May 26, 20211gale watches
  8. May 28, 20211gale watches
  9. September 6, 20211gale watches
  10. September 21, 20211gale watches
  11. September 24, 20211gale watches
  12. October 22, 20211gale 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.