Alert archive / Illinois / Winter Storm Watches
Winter Storm Watches in Illinois, 2017
4 winter storm watches in 2017. 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 winter storm watches reaches back to 2005.
Winter Storm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Watches
- 4
- Busiest month
- January3 winter storm watches
- Busiest day
- January 12, 20172 winter storm watches
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 3:31 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | LSX | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette and 11 more | 34 hr |
| Jan 12, 4:13 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles and 29 more | 59 hr |
| Jan 12, 3:33 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | DVN | Hancock, Henderson, Henry, McDonough, Mercer, Rock Island and 1 more | 48 hr |
| Mar 11, 3:36 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | DVN | Bureau, Carroll, Henry, Jo Daviess, Putnam, Rock Island and 2 more | 12 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Henry County2
- Rock Island County2
- Adams County1
- Bond County1
- Brown County1
- Calhoun County1
- Clinton County1
- Fayette County1
- Greene County1
- Jersey County1
- Macoupin County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Pike County1
- Randolph County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Washington County1
- Cass County1
- Champaign County1
- Christian County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Coles County1
- Crawford County1
- Cumberland County1
- DeWitt County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Effingham County1
- Fulton County1
- Jasper County1
- Knox County1
- Lawrence County1
- Logan County1
- McLean County1
- Macon County1
- Marshall County1
- Mason County1
25 more counties
- Menard County1
- Morgan County1
- Moultrie County1
- Peoria County1
- Piatt County1
- Richland County1
- Sangamon County1
- Schuyler County1
- Scott County1
- Shelby County1
- Stark County1
- Tazewell County1
- Vermilion County1
- Woodford County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- McDonough County1
- Mercer County1
- Warren County1
- Bureau County1
- Carroll County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Putnam County1
- Stephenson County1
- Whiteside County1
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.