Weather alerts in Kankakee County, Illinois

3,347 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Kankakee County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,347
Warnings: 872
Watches: 619
Advisories: 889
Busiest year: 2010192 alerts
Average year: 82over 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	449
Tornado Warning	83
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	295
Tornado Watch	118
Mesoscale Discussion	778
Special Weather Statement	189
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	47
Flash Flood Warning	81
River Flood Warning	71
Flash Flood Watch	58
Flood Watch	46
River Flood Watch	14
Areal Flood Advisory	163
River Flood Advisory	67
Winter
Blizzard Warning	3
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	4
Snow Squall Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	30
Blizzard Watch	3
Winter Storm Watch	36
Blowing Snow Advisory	4
Freezing Rain Advisory	17
Lake Effect Snow Advisory	1
Snow Advisory	11
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Winter Weather Advisory	128
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	9
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	9
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	53
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	30
Wind Chill Warning	8
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	11
Wind Chill Watch	4
Cold Weather Advisory	7
Frost Advisory	52
Wind Chill Advisory	45
Wind and dust
Dust Storm Warning	2
High Wind Warning	15
High Wind Watch	9
Blowing Dust Advisory	3
Dust Storm Advisory	1
Wind Advisory	146
Fire
Red Flag Warning	33
Fire Weather Watch	14
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	180
Freezing Fog Advisory	9

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 12, 10:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	61 min
Aug 12, 9:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOT	3 hr
Aug 12, 9:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	64 min
Aug 11, 10:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LOT	56 min
Aug 11, 10:27 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	37 min
Aug 11, 10:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LOT	55 min
Aug 10, 1:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOT	58 min
Aug 10, 1:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOT	91 min
Aug 10, 12:39 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	36 min
Aug 10, 12:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	69 min
Jul 27, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LOT	30 min
Jul 27, 4:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	42 min

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.