Weather alerts in McLean County, Illinois

3,430 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

McLean County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,430
Warnings: 1,063
Watches: 590
Advisories: 773
Busiest year: 2026216 alerts
Average year: 84over 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	606
Tornado Warning	153
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	287
Tornado Watch	151
Mesoscale Discussion	828
Special Weather Statement	176
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	22
Flash Flood Warning	95
River Flood Warning	34
Flash Flood Watch	51
Flood Watch	36
Areal Flood Advisory	56
Winter
Blizzard Warning	4
Ice Storm Warning	5
Snow Squall Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	30
Winter Storm Watch	31
Blowing Snow Advisory	5
Freezing Rain Advisory	18
Snow Advisory	8
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Winter Weather Advisory	135
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	10
Extreme Heat Warning	3
Excessive Heat Watch	6
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	57
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	4
Freeze Warning	53
Hard Freeze Warning	1
Wind Chill Warning	8
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	15
Wind Chill Watch	3
Cold Weather Advisory	11
Frost Advisory	42
Wind Chill Advisory	66
Wind and dust
Blowing Dust Warning	1
Dust Storm Warning	6
High Wind Warning	13
High Wind Watch	4
Blowing Dust Advisory	9
Dust Storm Advisory	2
Wind Advisory	152
Fire
Red Flag Warning	12
Fire Weather Watch	4
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	203
Freezing Fog Advisory	8

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 15, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	48 min
Sep 2, 11:14 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	ILX	3 days
Aug 17, 2:57 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ILX	31 hr
Aug 15, 1:46 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ILX	20 hr
Aug 15, 12:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILX	21 hr
Aug 15, 8:38 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	4 hr
Aug 15, 8:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	5 hr
Aug 15, 7:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILX	26 hr
Aug 15, 7:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILX	65 min
Aug 15, 2:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	6 hr
Aug 15, 2:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	5 hr
Aug 15, 1:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	6 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.