Weather alerts in Lee County, Illinois

3,379 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Lee County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,379
Warnings: 815
Watches: 623
Advisories: 933
Busiest year: 2008199 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	459
Tornado Warning	55
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	280
Tornado Watch	116
Mesoscale Discussion	820
Special Weather Statement	188
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	44
Flash Flood Warning	68
River Flood Warning	18
Flash Flood Watch	72
Flood Watch	44
River Flood Watch	5
Areal Flood Advisory	139
River Flood Advisory	43
Winter
Blizzard Warning	7
Ice Storm Warning	5
Snow Squall Warning	2
Winter Storm Warning	48
Blizzard Watch	3
Winter Storm Watch	52
Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	16
Snow Advisory	18
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Winter Weather Advisory	158
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	9
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	8
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	49
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	2
Freeze Warning	45
Wind Chill Warning	14
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	16
Wind Chill Watch	6
Cold Weather Advisory	9
Frost Advisory	61
Wind Chill Advisory	76
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	14
High Wind Watch	7
Blowing Dust Advisory	1
Dust Storm Advisory	1
Wind Advisory	118
Fire
Red Flag Warning	23
Fire Weather Watch	12
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	230
Freezing Fog Advisory	10

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 21, 11:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LOT	8 hr
Sep 20, 10:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LOT	25 hr
Sep 20, 2:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOT	5 hr
Sep 17, 7:07 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOT	2 hr
Aug 21, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	46 min
Aug 21, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	40 min
Aug 21, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	40 min
Aug 12, 8:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	57 min
Aug 12, 7:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	66 min
Aug 11, 8:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LOT	90 min
Aug 9, 10:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	26 min
Aug 9, 10:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOT	3 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.