Dense Fog, Alexander
- When
- January 23, 7:00 AM CST to 10:00 AM CST
- Where
- Alexander forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS
- Coordinates
- 37.192, -89.338 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Dense Fog in Illinois, January 23, 2024
Following rainfall amounts of around a half inch during the overnight hours, light drizzle and light wind during the early morning hours of the 23rd resulted in a couple hours in the morning with visibility reductions to a quarter mile in the southernmost portions of Illinois near the Ohio/Mississippi confluence.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS PAH wrote it up.
Following rainfall amounts of around a half inch during the overnight hours, light drizzle and light wind during the early morning hours of the 23rd resulted in a couple hours in the morning with visibility reductions to a quarter mile in the southernmost portions of Illinois near the Ohio/Mississippi confluence.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
3 dense fog. Local standard time, as filed.
Dense Fog, Pulaski
- When
- January 23, 7:00 AM CST to 10:00 AM CST
- Where
- Pulaski forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS
- Coordinates
- 37.223, -89.127 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Dense Fog, Massac
- When
- January 23, 9:00 AM CST to 11:00 AM CST
- Where
- Massac forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS
- Coordinates
- 37.219, -88.708 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Dense Fog
- Fog reducing visibility to a quarter mile or less, filed where it caused accidents or disruption.
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The same day elsewhere
- Heavy Rain in Arkansas, January 23 to 24, 2024
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Texas, January 23 to 25, 2024
- Cold in Illinois, January 23, 2024
- Dense Fog in Illinois, January 23 to 24, 2024
- Flooding and Freezing Fog in Arkansas, January 23 to 31, 2024
- Dense Fog in Kentucky, January 23 to 24, 2024
- Flash Flooding in Texas, January 23 to 24, 2024
- Dense Fog in Indiana, January 23, 2024
- Flooding in Arizona, January 23, 2024
- Dense Fog in Kentucky, January 23, 2024
- Dense Fog in Missouri, January 23, 2024
- Blizzard in Alaska, January 23 to 25, 2024
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1155496, 1155497, 1155498.