Madison County - IL Emergency Management Agency

07/06/2026

The Madison County EMA Drone Team is conducting a drone flight in the New Douglas area tonight. Madison County Dispatch has been notified.

06/29/2026

The Madison County EMA Drone Team will be conducting drone operations training in the Wood River area this evening. Madison County Dispatch will be notified.

06/29/2026

It will be a hot week ahead for our area. If you need a place to cool down and get out of this heat, the list for cooling sites can be found here: https://cms4files.revize.com/madisoncountyilus/Cooling-Sites-Data-6.1.26.pdf?t=20260629093657553&t=20260629093657553

Madison County specific cooling sites map: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/39c6c27a4f04475cae1fd3e552a3d4db #

It's a hot week ahead. Daytime highs in the upper 90s will combine with humid conditions to produce heat index values of 100-110 degrees. Rain chances start to tick up again by Friday.

06/17/2026

There is a potential for severe weather this afternoon/this evening for our area. Stay safe and have multiple ways of receiving alerts!

Thunderstorms are likely this afternoon and this evening as a cold front moves southeast across the area. A few of these will be severe capable of producing damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes. Know where to go if a warning is issued for your location.

06/16/2026

A cold front will drop into the region Wednesday, bringing showers and thunderstorms to the area. The primary threat timing will be Wednesday afternoon into evening. All hazards are possible with any severe thunderstorms that develop, including damaging winds, large hail, and a strong tornado.

05/29/2026

All impacted New Douglas community residents, regarding the Three County Public Water District main line incident, may receive bottled water at the Rec Plex located at: 310 S. Main St, New Douglas, IL 62074.

All impacted Williamson community residents, regarding the Three County Public Water District main line incident, may receive bottled water at: 1137 Williamson Avenue, Staunton, IL 62088.

The boil order for Three County Public Water District is still in effect.

05/14/2026

The Madison County EMA Drone Team will be conducting drone operations training in the Edwardsville area this evening. Madison County Dispatch will be notified.

05/05/2026

Madison County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) is required to have the ability of mass communications. Specifically, Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (IPAWS) messaging which can only be launched by a contracted third-party software (CodeRed, Everbridge, Hyper Reach, etc.).

CodeRed has served the county and its communities well for many years. Since their data breach incident and upgrading from the legacy platform (owned by OnSolve) to their new platform (owned by Crisis24), there have been significant performance issues. The phone number changed to a Washington phone number and eliminated the address-based alerts and went to a more general area for alerting. Based on feedback from the last few months/last few storms, residents were receiving multiple alerts for the same storm, alerts outside of the area they lived and a robotic voice many could not understand.

We are still in the process of switching over to the Everbridge system, so currently CodeRed is still active. Everbridge is up and running as well and has been sending out weather alerts. The local number you will receive Everbridge alerts from is 618-296-3500.

For those who were already in the CodeRed weather alert system, your information was brought onto the Everbridge platform. If you want to edit your address, phone number, name, etc., you will need to register for an Everbridge account. The registration link is: https://member.everbridge.net/index/107891189088300
The system will look for an existing account and link the accounts together. If you were not in the Code Red weather alert system, you can sign up for Everbridge following the same link.

For more information and articles regarding this topic, please refer to the Madison County EMA website: https://www.madisoncountyil.gov/departments/emergency_management/index.php

05/04/2026

Madison County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) is currently in the process of switching from CodeRED to the Everbridge system for all mass notification alerts which include weather alerts. All our residents who were previously signed up for CodeRED weather alerts were brought over and will now receive weather alerts from Everbridge.

Residents may have received a severe weather warning alert from Everbridge last night, which came from an inaccurate number that Everbridge presented in error. The correct number you will receive Everbridge alerts from is: 618-296-3500.

04/29/2026

Our damage survey teams found three tornado tracks in Illinois from the storms on Monday, April 27. We are still investigating additional reports.