Weather alerts in Winnebago County, Illinois

3,555 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Winnebago County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,555
Warnings: 924
Watches: 675
Advisories: 1,022
Busiest year: 2008235 alerts
Average year: 87over 41 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	404
Tornado Warning	47
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	263
Tornado Watch	98
Mesoscale Discussion	743
Special Weather Statement	191
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	23
Flash Flood Warning	89
River Flood Warning	192
Flash Flood Watch	66
Flood Watch	39
River Flood Watch	99
Areal Flood Advisory	121
River Flood Advisory	165
Winter
Blizzard Warning	7
Ice Storm Warning	4
Snow Squall Warning	2
Winter Storm Warning	52
Blizzard Watch	3
Winter Storm Watch	59
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	15
Snow Advisory	17
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	3
Winter Weather Advisory	160
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	7
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	7
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	43
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	2
Freeze Warning	45
Wind Chill Warning	14
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	16
Wind Chill Watch	6
Cold Weather Advisory	9
Frost Advisory	71
Wind Chill Advisory	76
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	15
High Wind Watch	7
Blowing Dust Advisory	1
Wind Advisory	117
Fire
Red Flag Warning	19
Fire Weather Watch	10
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	216
Freezing Fog Advisory	7

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 21, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	22 min
Aug 11, 8:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LOT	90 min
Jul 27, 2:10 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	LOT	19 hr
Jul 3, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	54 min
Jul 3, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	25 min
Jul 3, 11:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	61 min
Jun 28, 11:18 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	LOT	5 days
Jun 24, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	43 min
Jun 24, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	38 min
Jun 12, 10:57 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LOT	33 hr
Jun 11, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	51 min
Jun 11, 5:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOT	4 hr

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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.