Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 267
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 7, 2015, 2:36 PM CDT for 39 counties in Illinois; 5 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 2015, 2:36 PM CDT (19:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2015, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 44 counties
Boone County, IL, Bureau County, IL, Cass County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Coles County, IL, DeKalb County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Ford County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Kendall County, IL, Knox County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Lee County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Mason County, IL, McDonough County, IL, McLean County, IL, Menard County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Ogle County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Stark County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Warren County, IL, Will County, IL, Winnebago County, IL, Woodford County, IL, Benton County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Lake County, IN, Newton County, IN, Porter County, IN
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
35 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox, Peoria, Woodford | 24 min |
| Jun 7, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall, Woodford | 29 min |
| Jun 7, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Grundy, Livingston | 51 min |
| Jun 7, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford | 64 min |
| Jun 7, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Will | 45 min |
| Jun 7, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Grundy, Kankakee, Will | 42 min |
| Jun 7, 4:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Kankakee, Will | 6 hr |
| Jun 7, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean, Tazewell, Woodford | 51 min |
| Jun 7, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kankakee, Will | 34 min |
| Jun 7, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford | 33 min |
| Jun 7, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Jasper, Lake, Porter | 62 min |
| Jun 7, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean, Tazewell, Woodford | 51 min |
| Jun 7, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lake, Newton | 44 min |
| Jun 7, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Jasper, Porter | 23 min |
| Jun 7, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kankakee | 33 min |
| Jun 7, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Mason, Tazewell | 60 min |
| Jun 7, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Livingston | 28 min |
| Jun 7, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Jasper, Newton | 48 min |
| Jun 7, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Iroquois | 65 min |
| Jun 7, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois, Livingston | 31 min |
| Jun 7, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, McLean, Mason, Tazewell | 44 min |
| Jun 7, 5:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Iroquois, Kankakee | 5 hr |
| Jun 7, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois, Livingston | 56 min |
| Jun 7, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois | 29 min |
| Jun 7, 6:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois | 6 hr |
| Jun 7, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Warren | 35 min |
| Jun 7, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Hancock, McDonough | 55 min |
| Jun 7, 6:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Champaign, Vermilion | 5 hr |
| Jun 7, 7:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Fulton, Knox | 5 hr |
| Jun 7, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Mason, Peoria, Tazewell | 42 min |
| Jun 7, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 52 min |
| Jun 7, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 61 min |
| Jun 7, 7:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Logan, McLean, Mason, Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford | 5 hr |
| Jun 7, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan, McLean, Tazewell | 24 min |
| Jun 7, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan, McLean, Mason, Menard, Tazewell | 53 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 1:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, DeWitt, Ford, Fulton and 18 more | 53 min |
| Jun 7, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Hancock, Henderson | 4 hr |
| Jun 7, 5:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Champaign, DeWitt, Douglas, Ford, Fulton and 23 more | 86 min |
| Jun 7, 6:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Hancock, Henderson | 84 min |
| Jun 7, 3:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass and 36 more | 55 min |
| Jun 7, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cass, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaPorte, Marshall, Miami and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 7, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 39 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, 2015Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2015Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2015
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.