Snow Squall Warning, Illinois
SevereFlash freeze on roads. Dangerous and life-threatening travel conditions are expected to develop rapidly in the warning area.
Ended Wednesday, January 14, 2026.
- Issued
- Expires
- Updated
Places in this warning
- Joliet
- Chicago Heights
- New Lenox
- Lockport
- Park Forest
- Crest Hill
- Frankfort
- Mokena
- Matteson
- Shorewood
- Bourbonnais
- Richton Park
- Sauk Village
- Flossmoor
- Steger
- Manhattan
- Manteno
- Lynwood
- Frankfort Square
- Crete
- University Park
- Braidwood
- Wilmington
- Monee
- Olympia Fields
- Beecher
- Peotone
- South Chicago Heights
- Ingalls Park
- Momence
- Ridgewood
- Preston Heights
- Fairmont
- Elwood
- Rockdale
- Crystal Lawns
- Ford Heights
- Willowbrook
- Grant Park
- Arbury Hills
- Sunnyland
- Lakewood Shores
- Plum Valley
- Rest Haven
- Ritchie
- Symerton
- Marley
- Wilton Center
- Custer Park
- Eagle Lake
- Goodenow
- Andres
- Lorenzo
Map
- This warning
- Area drawn by the weather service
- Interstates
- US highways
- Moving east at 31 mph
Details from the National Weather Service
- What
- Flash freeze on roads. Intense bursts of heavy snow. Gusty winds leading to blowing snow and visibility rapidly falling to less than one-quarter mile. Wind gusts greater than 50 mph could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects.
- Squall now
- At 8:23 in the morning, a dangerous snow squall was located along a line extending from Wilmington to near Monee to near Shelby to near La Crosse, moving south at 35 mph.
- Impacts
- Dangerous and life-threatening travel conditions are expected to develop rapidly in the warning area.
- Highways
- Including the following interstates... I-55 between mile markers 235 and 259. I-57 between mile markers 316 and 343. I-80 between mile markers 123 and 150. I-355 between mile markers 1 and 4. Indiana I-65 between mile markers 227 and 255. This snow squall will be near... Manteno, DeMotte, Wheatfield, Roselawn, Lakewood Shores, Grant Park, and Shelby around 8:30 in the morning. Bourbonnais, Bradley, and Lake Village around 8:35 in the morning. Momence around 8:40 in the morning.
- Seen by
- Radar and trained spotter.
Updates
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Allowed to end on time. January 14, 2026
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Reissued with no change to the times or amounts. January 14, 2026
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Snow Squall Warning issued until Wednesday, 9 in the morning. January 14, 2026