Snow Squall Warnings in Illinois
19 snow squall warnings since 1986. 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 snow squall warnings reaches back to 2005.
Snow Squall Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Snow Squall Warnings
- 19
- Busiest year
- 20229 snow squall warnings
- Average year
- 5over 4 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 county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Rock Island County5
- Cook County4
- Jo Daviess County3
- Mercer County3
- Carroll County3
- DeKalb County3
- DuPage County3
- Kane County3
- Kankakee County3
- Ogle County3
- Whiteside County3
- Will County3
- Champaign County3
- McLean County3
- Boone County2
- Henry County2
- Kendall County2
- Lake County2
- LaSalle County2
- Lee County2
- McHenry County2
- Stephenson County2
- Winnebago County2
- Ford County2
- Iroquois County2
- Woodford County2
- Bureau County1
- Grundy County1
- Putnam County1
- DeWitt County1
- Livingston County1
- Macon County1
- Piatt County1
- Vermilion County1
The latest snow squall warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 6:28 PM CST | Snow Squall Warning | DVN | Carroll, Rock Island, Whiteside | 47 min |
| Jan 14, 9:27 AM CST | Snow Squall Warning | ILX | Champaign, DeWitt, McLean, Macon, Piatt, Vermilion | 48 min |
| Jan 14, 9:07 AM CST | Snow Squall Warning | ILX | Champaign, McLean, Woodford | 23 min |
| Jan 14, 9:06 AM CST | Snow Squall Warning | ILX | Champaign, McLean, Woodford | 24 min |
| Jan 14, 8:53 AM CST | Snow Squall Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois, Livingston | 67 min |
| Jan 14, 8:20 AM CST | Snow Squall Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee | 55 min |
| Jan 14, 8:00 AM CST | Snow Squall Warning | LOT | Cook, Kankakee, Will | 60 min |
Nearby
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.