Weather alerts in Vermilion County, Illinois

3,143 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Vermilion County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,143
Warnings: 893
Watches: 547
Advisories: 733
Busiest year: 2026182 alerts
Average year: 79over 40 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	462
Tornado Warning	117
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	260
Tornado Watch	150
Mesoscale Discussion	780
Special Weather Statement	190
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	26
Flash Flood Warning	118
River Flood Warning	24
Flash Flood Watch	37
Flood Watch	38
Areal Flood Advisory	58
Winter
Blizzard Warning	2
Ice Storm Warning	3
Snow Squall Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	29
Winter Storm Watch	28
Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	11
Snow Advisory	6
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Winter Weather Advisory	118
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	12
Extreme Heat Warning	3
Excessive Heat Watch	5
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	59
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	2
Freeze Warning	58
Hard Freeze Warning	1
Wind Chill Warning	7
Freeze Watch	16
Wind Chill Watch	3
Cold Weather Advisory	10
Frost Advisory	52
Wind Chill Advisory	47
Wind and dust
Dust Storm Warning	2
High Wind Warning	14
High Wind Watch	5
Blowing Dust Advisory	9
Dust Storm Advisory	2
Wind Advisory	156
Fire
Red Flag Warning	12
Fire Weather Watch	4
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	193
Freezing Fog Advisory	9

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 2, 11:14 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	ILX	3 days
Aug 26, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	42 min
Aug 19, 11:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	3 hr
Aug 19, 6:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	3 hr
Aug 16, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	50 min
Aug 16, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	50 min
Aug 15, 1:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILX	46 hr
Aug 15, 5:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	8 hr
Aug 15, 3:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	4 hr
Aug 14, 9:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ILX	4 days
Aug 14, 2:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILX	6 hr
Aug 14, 2:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	46 min

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.