Alert archive / Illinois / Cook County / 2024
Weather alerts in Cook County, Illinois, May 2024
25 weather alerts in May 2024, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
- Alerts
- 25
- Warnings
- 8
- Watches
- 2
- Advisories
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 7, 20244 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 2, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | 26 min |
| May 2, 3:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 113 min |
| May 2, 9:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | 33 min |
| May 2, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | 29 min |
| May 4, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | 45 min |
| May 7, 12:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 7, 1:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
| May 7, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | 36 min |
| May 7, 2:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOT | 3 hr |
| May 7, 8:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | 27 min |
| May 13, 2:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOT | 2 hr |
| May 17, 2:42 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | LOT | 6 hr |
| May 20, 10:13 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 92 min |
| May 20, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | 41 min |
| May 20, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | 36 min |
| May 20, 3:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| May 21, 10:20 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | LOT | 6 hr |
| May 24, 6:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| May 24, 12:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | 54 min |
| May 24, 12:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | 67 min |
| May 24, 4:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 119 min |
| May 28, 2:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | 20 min |
| May 28, 3:03 PM CDT | Beach Hazards Statement | LOT | 36 hr |
| May 28, 3:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | 30 min |
| May 28, 5:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOT | 3 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 | 8 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 5 |
| Special Weather Statement | 4 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 3 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 1 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 1 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Beach Hazards Statement | 1 |
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.