Alert archive / Illinois / Red Flag Warnings
Red Flag Warnings in Illinois, 2016
3 red flag warnings in 2016. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of red flag warnings reaches back to 2005.
Red Flag Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 3
- Busiest month
- March2 red flag warnings
- Busiest day
- March 16, 20161 red flag warnings
Over time
By month
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 3:55 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Jersey, Madison, Monroe, Saint Clair | 16 hr |
| Mar 22, 3:47 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LSX | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Pike | 15 hr |
| Sep 27, 12:03 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LOT | Cook, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kane and 5 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
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. Rebuilt daily.