Weather alerts in Illinois, May 1997

74 weather alerts in May 1997, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.

Weather alerts by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 74
Warnings: 65
Watches: 9
Advisories: 0
Busiest day: May 19, 199735 alerts

Over time

By day

Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.

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
Apr 30, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gallatin	43 min
May 2, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Randolph	33 min
May 2, 1:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alexander, Clay, Clinton, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin and 20 more	6 hr
May 2, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	38 min
May 2, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Madison, Monroe	7 hr
May 2, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Pulaski	49 min
May 2, 9:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Hardin, Pope	3 hr
May 2, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Massac	46 min
May 2, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Piatt	24 min
May 2, 11:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Greene, Jersey	54 min
May 5, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Champaign, Christian, Coles, Cook, DeWitt, Douglas and 17 more	5 hr
May 5, 2:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Grundy, Will	43 min
May 5, 2:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Cook	50 min
May 5, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Kankakee	51 min
May 5, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Vermilion	26 min
May 7, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Mercer, Rock Island	6 hr
May 18, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Henderson, Jo Daviess, Mercer, Rock Island	7 hr
May 18, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Jo Daviess	50 min
May 18, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt and 38 more	6 hr
May 18, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Carroll, Whiteside	50 min
May 18, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Ogle	69 min
May 18, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Boone	45 min
May 18, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Lee	64 min
May 18, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Lee	60 min
May 18, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Lake, McHenry	64 min
May 18, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Lake, McHenry	60 min
May 18, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Kane	66 min
May 18, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Bureau	50 min
May 18, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	LaSalle, Lee	56 min
May 18, 7:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Kane	30 min
May 18, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Kendall, LaSalle	63 min
May 18, 7:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	DuPage, Will	58 min
May 18, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Iroquois	5 hr
May 18, 8:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Rock Island	49 min
May 18, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Henderson	52 min
May 18, 8:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Grundy, Kankakee, Will	56 min
May 18, 8:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Cook	56 min
May 18, 8:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Henry	47 min
May 18, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Warren	49 min
May 18, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Knox	47 min
May 18, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Bureau	47 min
May 18, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Bureau	49 min
May 18, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Henderson	45 min
May 18, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee	2 hr
May 18, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Livingston	2 hr
May 18, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Mercer	36 min
May 18, 9:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Warren	48 min
May 18, 9:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Putnam	31 min
May 18, 9:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Knox	48 min
May 18, 9:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	LaSalle	57 min
May 18, 9:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton, Peoria	49 min
May 18, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Grundy, Livingston	66 min
May 18, 10:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Tazewell	50 min
May 18, 10:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Peoria	32 min
May 18, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Knox	43 min
May 18, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Iroquois, Kankakee	55 min
May 18, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 28 more	6 hr
May 18, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Adams	40 min
May 18, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Ford, Iroquois, Livingston	63 min
May 19, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike	31 min
May 24, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Henry	45 min
May 25, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Monroe	38 min
May 25, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Randolph	66 min
May 25, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Perry	44 min
May 25, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Union, Williamson	41 min
May 25, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson	48 min
May 26, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson	52 min
May 26, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson and 7 more	6 hr
May 28, 4:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Massac	2 hr
May 28, 4:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Pope	2 hr
May 28, 6:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Massac, Pope	64 min
May 30, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson, Union	42 min
May 30, 9:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Union	85 min
May 30, 11:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Gallatin, Saline	100 min

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	43
Tornado Warning	16
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	4
Tornado Watch	5
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning	6

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

52 more counties

Nearby

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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. Rebuilt daily.