Weather alerts in Kane County, Illinois

3,732 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Kane County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 3,732
Warnings: 1,016
Watches: 625
Advisories: 1,093
Busiest year: 2008206 alerts
Average year: 91over 41 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 product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	528
Tornado Warning	59
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	280
Tornado Watch	94
Mesoscale Discussion	805
Special Weather Statement	193
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	41
Flash Flood Warning	105
River Flood Warning	108
Flash Flood Watch	70
Flood Watch	49
River Flood Watch	29
Areal Flood Advisory	206
River Flood Advisory	134
Winter
Blizzard Warning	5
Heavy Snow Warning	3
Ice Storm Warning	5
Snow Squall Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	45
Blizzard Watch	3
Winter Storm Watch	50
Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	16
Snow Advisory	16
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Winter Weather Advisory	157
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	8
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	8
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	40
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	2
Freeze Warning	44
Wind Chill Warning	14
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	15
Wind Chill Watch	6
Cold Weather Advisory	9
Frost Advisory	62
Wind Chill Advisory	76
Wind and dust
Dust Storm Warning	1
High Wind Warning	19
High Wind Watch	8
Blowing Dust Advisory	1
Dust Storm Advisory	2
Wind Advisory	128
Fire
Red Flag Warning	24
Fire Weather Watch	11
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	233
Freezing Fog Advisory	9

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 21, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	63 min
Aug 12, 9:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LOT	46 min
Aug 11, 10:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LOT	58 min
Aug 11, 10:10 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	50 min
Aug 11, 9:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LOT	67 min
Aug 9, 1:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	54 min
Aug 9, 1:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	57 min
Aug 1, 9:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LOT	6 hr
Jul 27, 10:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	78 min
Jul 27, 2:10 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	LOT	19 hr
Jul 4, 8:22 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LOT	2 hr
Jul 4, 6:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LOT	14 hr

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.