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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Cook County, Illinois, 1996

13 severe thunderstorm warnings in 1996. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Cook County and its neighbors

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
13
Busiest month
April6 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
April 12, 19963 severe thunderstorm warnings

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 18, 1:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT50 min
Feb 26, 8:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT25 min
Apr 12, 10:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT46 min
Apr 12, 11:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT65 min
Apr 12, 11:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT13 min
Apr 19, 9:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT26 min
Apr 19, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT30 min
Apr 19, 11:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT34 min
May 16, 7:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT67 min
Jul 15, 7:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT41 min
Jul 15, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT43 min
Jul 24, 12:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT31 min
Oct 29, 5:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT54 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 12, 19963severe thunderstorm warnings
  2. April 20, 19963severe thunderstorm warnings
  3. July 16, 19962severe thunderstorm warnings
  4. January 18, 19961severe thunderstorm warnings
  5. February 27, 19961severe thunderstorm warnings
  6. May 16, 19961severe thunderstorm warnings
  7. July 24, 19961severe thunderstorm warnings
  8. October 29, 19961severe thunderstorm warnings

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.