Alert archive / Illinois / Winter Storm Watches
Winter Storm Watches in Illinois, 2024
7 winter storm watches in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Watches
- 7
- Busiest month
- January7 winter storm watches
- Busiest day
- January 7, 20244 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 7, 2:44 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | DVN | Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 7 more | 24 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:58 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ILX | Cass, Fulton, Knox, Marshall, Mason, Menard and 7 more | 24 hr |
| Jan 7, 3:06 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | LSX | Adams, Brown, Pike | 24 hr |
| Jan 7, 1:55 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | LOT | Boone, DeKalb, Lee, McHenry, Ogle, Winnebago | 24 hr |
| Jan 10, 2:18 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | LOT | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane and 9 more | 24 hr |
| Jan 10, 2:31 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ILX | Knox, Marshall, Stark | 12 hr |
| Jan 10, 3:00 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | DVN | Bureau, Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Mercer and 5 more | 11 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bureau County2
- Carroll County2
- Henderson County2
- Henry County2
- Jo Daviess County2
- Mercer County2
- Putnam County2
- Rock Island County2
- Stephenson County2
- Warren County2
- Whiteside County2
- Knox County2
- Marshall County2
- Stark County2
- Boone County2
- DeKalb County2
- Lee County2
- McHenry County2
- Ogle County2
- Winnebago County2
- Hancock County1
- McDonough County1
- Cass County1
- Fulton County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Morgan County1
- Peoria County1
- Schuyler County1
- Scott County1
- Tazewell County1
- Woodford County1
- Adams County1
- Brown County1
- Pike County1
- Cook County1
- DuPage County1
- Grundy County1
- Kane County1
- Kankakee County1
4 more counties
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.