Alert archive / Illinois / Stephenson County

Weather alerts in Stephenson County, Illinois, 2021

100 weather alerts in 2021, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Stephenson County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
100
Warnings
20
Watches
12
Advisories
39
Busiest month
August18 alerts
Busiest day
July 14, 20217 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Stephenson County, 2021

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings11827%4100%19 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2021

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Quad Cities, IA: tornado warnings301357%2976%17 min
NWS Quad Cities, IA: severe thunderstorm warnings1227043%20283%23 min
NWS Quad Cities, IA: flash flood warnings201050%2479%70 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
Jan 2, 2:49 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDVN21 hr
Jan 3, 2:22 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDVN28 hr
Jan 5, 3:41 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDVN18 hr
Jan 6, 2:37 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDVN13 hr
Jan 13, 2:53 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDVN44 hr
Jan 16, 8:33 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDVN15 hr
Jan 19, 5:03 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDVN4 hr
Jan 23, 3:44 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDVN23 hr
Jan 24, 2:43 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVN45 hr
Jan 29, 2:11 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDVN12 hr
Jan 29, 2:29 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVN46 hr
Jan 29, 2:29 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDVN52 hr
Feb 3, 1:04 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDVN10 hr
Feb 3, 4:01 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDVN11 hr
Feb 3, 4:01 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDVN56 hr
Feb 3, 2:56 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDVN36 hr
Feb 6, 12:51 AM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryDVN9 hr
Feb 6, 3:47 AM CSTWind Chill WarningDVN32 hr
Feb 8, 2:48 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryDVN19 hr
Feb 10, 2:30 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryDVN20 hr
Feb 11, 5:07 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryDVN43 hr
Feb 13, 3:37 AM CSTWind Chill WarningDVN56 hr
Feb 15, 12:29 AM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryDVN12 hr
Feb 20, 2:35 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDVN30 hr
Feb 28, 6:13 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDVN6 hr
Mar 10, 2:52 AM CSTWind AdvisoryDVN17 hr
Mar 14, 3:53 AM CDTWinter Weather AdvisoryDVN39 hr
Mar 17, 2:28 PM CDTWind AdvisoryDVN29 hr
Mar 28, 2:41 PM CDTWind AdvisoryDVN29 hr
Mar 28, 2:55 PM CDTRed Flag WarningDVN29 hr
Apr 19, 3:41 AM CDTFreeze WatchDVN10 hr
Apr 19, 2:07 PM CDTFreeze WarningDVN43 hr
Apr 19, 11:47 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryDVN8 hr
Apr 21, 3:07 AM CDTFreeze WarningDVN30 hr
Apr 24, 2:25 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryDVN18 hr
Apr 29, 4:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVN32 min
May 1, 3:26 AM CDTWind AdvisoryDVN16 hr
May 7, 1:48 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryDVN18 hr
May 10, 2:28 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryDVN18 hr
May 11, 2:26 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryDVN17 hr
May 28, 3:30 AM CDTFrost AdvisoryDVN28 hr
Jun 11, 2:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVN52 min
Jun 18, 2:21 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVN24 min
Jun 20, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Jun 20, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN67 min
Jun 20, 9:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC66 min
Jun 25, 2:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVN41 min
Jun 28, 3:19 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDVN38 hr
Jul 14, 7:02 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 14, 11:45 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 14, 1:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVN32 min
Jul 14, 2:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC119 min
Jul 14, 2:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVN42 min
Jul 14, 5:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC63 min
Jul 14, 6:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 14, 9:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC90 min
Jul 14, 11:17 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC58 min
Jul 14, 11:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN34 min
Jul 15, 12:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN25 min
Jul 27, 3:12 AM CDTHeat AdvisoryDVN64 hr
Jul 28, 3:17 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVN43 min
Jul 29, 12:32 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Jul 29, 1:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Jul 29, 1:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN60 min
Jul 29, 2:35 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVN55 min
Aug 8, 2:24 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryDVN53 hr
Aug 9, 4:59 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVN31 min
Aug 9, 7:08 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVN22 min
Aug 9, 7:38 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVN22 min
Aug 10, 2:28 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryDVN29 hr
Aug 10, 3:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Aug 10, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Aug 10, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN51 min
Aug 10, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN41 min
Aug 10, 5:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC84 min
Aug 10, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN13 min
Aug 11, 5:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Aug 11, 7:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC85 min
Aug 24, 1:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Aug 24, 3:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC66 min
Aug 24, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDVN58 min
Aug 24, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN59 min
Aug 24, 5:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Sep 7, 12:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC65 min
Oct 8, 3:52 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDVN5 hr
Oct 8, 9:43 PM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDVN10 hr
Oct 11, 12:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC113 min
Oct 20, 4:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVN36 min
Oct 22, 2:22 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryDVN19 hr
Nov 27, 8:16 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDVN2 hr
Dec 5, 3:06 AM CSTWind AdvisoryDVN33 hr
Dec 13, 2:36 PM CSTHigh Wind WatchDVN24 hr
Dec 14, 2:33 PM CSTHigh Wind WarningDVN39 hr
Dec 15, 5:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Dec 15, 9:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDVN60 min
Dec 15, 10:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN31 min
Dec 27, 2:57 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDVN27 hr
Dec 28, 8:59 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 hr
Dec 30, 7:17 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDVN23 hr
Dec 31, 11:01 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDVN10 hr

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

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.