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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ogle County, Illinois, 2024

25 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2024. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Ogle County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
25
Busiest month
May7 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
March 4, 20243 severe thunderstorm warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

11 of 25 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Ogle County in 2024 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 10 of 16 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 32 minutes after it went out.

Ogle County, 2024

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings251156%1663%32 min

Each office's whole area, 2024

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Chicago, IL: severe thunderstorm warnings1558843%54979%30 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 27, 5:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT93 min
Mar 4, 3:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT40 min
Mar 4, 4:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT34 min
Mar 4, 5:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT41 min
Mar 4, 6:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT44 min
Apr 16, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT25 min
Apr 16, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT57 min
May 4, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT35 min
May 4, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT48 min
May 7, 12:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT33 min
May 7, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT54 min
May 20, 12:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT37 min
May 21, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT45 min
May 24, 8:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT62 min
Jun 22, 1:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT23 min
Jun 22, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT33 min
Jun 22, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT32 min
Jun 25, 6:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT65 min
Jul 14, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT37 min
Jul 14, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT80 min
Jul 15, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLOT75 min
Jul 15, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLOT74 min
Aug 5, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT51 min
Aug 5, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLOT47 min
Aug 16, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT35 min

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.