High Wind Watches in Illinois
27 high wind watches since 1986. 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 high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 27
- Busiest year
- 20198 high wind watches
- Average year
- 2over 13 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lake County10
- Kankakee County9
- DuPage County8
- Ford County8
- Iroquois County8
- Kane County8
- Kendall County8
- Livingston County8
- McHenry County8
- Boone County7
- DeKalb County7
- Grundy County7
- LaSalle County7
- Lee County7
- Ogle County7
- Winnebago County7
- Bureau County6
- Carroll County6
- Henry County6
- Mercer County6
- Putnam County6
- Rock Island County6
- Whiteside County6
- Jo Daviess County5
- Stephenson County5
- Champaign County5
- Piatt County5
- Vermilion County5
- Hancock County4
- Henderson County4
- McDonough County4
- Warren County4
- Christian County4
- Clark County4
- Clay County4
- Coles County4
- Crawford County4
- Cumberland County4
- DeWitt County4
- Douglas County4
62 more counties
- Edgar County4
- Effingham County4
- Jasper County4
- Lawrence County4
- McLean County4
- Macon County4
- Moultrie County4
- Richland County4
- Shelby County4
- Will County4
- Cass County3
- Fulton County3
- Knox County3
- Logan County3
- Marshall County3
- Mason County3
- Menard County3
- Peoria County3
- Schuyler County3
- Stark County3
- Tazewell County3
- Woodford County3
- Cook County3
- Morgan County2
- Sangamon County2
- Scott County2
- Alexander County1
- Edwards County1
- Franklin County1
- Gallatin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Massac County1
- Perry County1
- Pope County1
- Pulaski County1
- Saline County1
- Union County1
- Wabash County1
- Wayne County1
- White County1
- Williamson County1
- Adams County1
- Bond County1
- Brown County1
- Calhoun County1
- Clinton County1
- Fayette County1
- Greene County1
- Jersey County1
- Macoupin County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Pike County1
- Randolph County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Washington County1
The latest high wind watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2:00 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | LOT | Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee, Livingston, Will | 10 hr |
| Mar 12, 1:33 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | LOT | Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Lake and 2 more | 10 hr |
Nearby
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.