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Gale Watches in Illinois, 2025

23 gale watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Gale Watches
23
Busiest month
March6 gale watches
Busiest day
January 25, 20251 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 25, 2:56 PM CSTGale WatchLOT18 hr
Jan 27, 2:21 PM CSTGale WatchLOT7 hr
Feb 4, 2:51 PM CSTGale WatchLOT13 hr
Feb 15, 2:59 AM CSTGale WatchLOT7 hr
Feb 27, 3:12 AM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Mar 4, 3:25 AM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Mar 13, 3:54 AM CDTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Mar 18, 4:08 AM CDTGale WatchLOT11 hr
Mar 22, 2:43 PM CDTGale WatchLOT13 hr
Mar 27, 3:50 AM CDTGale WatchLOT18 hr
Mar 31, 2:58 PM CDTGale WatchLOT13 hr
Apr 19, 3:42 PM CDTGale WatchLOT23 hr
Apr 27, 3:40 PM CDTGale WatchLOT12 hr
May 15, 4:00 AM CDTGale WatchLOT11 hr
Jun 20, 10:20 AM CDTGale WatchLOT5 hr
Sep 3, 3:03 PM CDTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Oct 17, 2:47 PM CDTGale WatchLOT13 hr
Nov 8, 3:03 AM CSTGale WatchLOT13 hr
Nov 24, 3:29 AM CSTGale WatchLOT24 hr
Dec 8, 2:35 PM CSTGale WatchLOT14 hr
Dec 13, 8:10 PM CSTGale WatchLOT19 hr
Dec 17, 2:59 AM CSTGale WatchLOT12 hr
Dec 26, 9:29 PM CSTGale WatchLOT6 hr

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 25, 20251gale watches
  2. January 27, 20251gale watches
  3. February 4, 20251gale watches
  4. February 15, 20251gale watches
  5. February 27, 20251gale watches
  6. March 4, 20251gale watches
  7. March 13, 20251gale watches
  8. March 18, 20251gale watches
  9. March 22, 20251gale watches
  10. March 27, 20251gale watches
  11. March 31, 20251gale watches
  12. April 19, 20251gale 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.