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Flash Flood Watches in Illinois, 2012

10 flash flood watches in 2012. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of flash flood watches reaches back to 2005.

Flash Flood Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Flash Flood Watches
10
Busiest month
May7 flash flood watches
Busiest day
May 4, 20123 flash flood watches

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 17, 3:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchLSXBond, Clinton, Madison, Monroe, Randolph, Saint Clair and 1 more6 hr
Apr 13, 9:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchLSXCalhoun, Jersey, Madison, Monroe, Saint Clair13 hr
Apr 29, 4:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchLSXBond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jersey and 8 more15 hr
May 1, 2:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchLSXBond, Calhoun, Clinton, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin and 5 more7 hr
May 1, 9:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchILXSangamon8 hr
May 3, 8:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchLOTDuPage, Grundy, Kankakee, Kendall, LaSalle, Livingston7 hr
May 3, 11:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDVNBureau, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, McDonough, Mercer and 3 more9 hr
May 4, 3:31 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDVNBureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, McDonough and 5 more11 hr
May 6, 3:56 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchLOTBoone, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois and 10 more27 hr
May 6, 4:07 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDVNBureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 7 more16 hr

By county

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

5 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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.