Alert archive / Illinois / High Wind Watches
High Wind Watches in Illinois, 2023
2 high wind watches in 2023. 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 in 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 2
- Busiest month
- February2 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- February 7, 20232 high wind 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 7, 1:55 PM CST | High Wind Watch | ILX | Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 14 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 7, 2:42 PM CST | High Wind Watch | LOT | Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee, Livingston | 23 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Champaign County1
- Christian County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Coles County1
- Crawford County1
- Cumberland County1
- DeWitt County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Effingham County1
- Jasper County1
- Lawrence County1
- McLean County1
- Macon County1
- Moultrie County1
- Piatt County1
- Richland County1
- Shelby County1
- Vermilion County1
- Ford County1
- Iroquois County1
- Kankakee County1
- Livingston County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.