Alert archive / Illinois / Cook County / 2012
Weather alerts in Cook County, Illinois, May 2012
25 weather alerts in May 2012, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
- Alerts
- 25
- Warnings
- 11
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20127 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 | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 1:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 3, 2:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 67 min |
| May 3, 6:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | 33 min |
| May 3, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | 43 min |
| May 3, 6:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 23 min |
| May 3, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 3, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | 67 min |
| May 3, 7:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | 4 hr |
| May 3, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | 75 min |
| May 3, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | 55 min |
| May 3, 10:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | 5 hr |
| May 3, 10:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 61 min |
| May 3, 10:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | 28 min |
| May 6, 1:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 6, 1:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | 65 min |
| May 6, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | 38 min |
| May 6, 9:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | 59 min |
| May 6, 10:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | 43 min |
| May 6, 10:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | 40 min |
| May 6, 11:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | 6 hr |
| May 15, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | 39 min |
| May 24, 10:56 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LOT | 9 hr |
| May 28, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
| May 28, 7:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | 23 min |
| May 29, 3:13 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LOT | 17 hr |
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 | 6 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 3 |
| Special Weather Statement | 7 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 2 |
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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.