Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, May 1996

110 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 1996. 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 severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1996. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings: 110
Busiest day: May 26, 199618 severe thunderstorm warnings

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
May 2, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Monroe, Saint Clair	38 min
May 2, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Monroe, Randolph	49 min
May 2, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union	49 min
May 2, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Clair, Washington	43 min
May 2, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	36 min
May 2, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	30 min
May 3, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin	41 min
May 3, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Calhoun	34 min
May 3, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Jersey	34 min
May 3, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Jersey, Madison	48 min
May 3, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Clinton	46 min
May 3, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Bond, Clinton	45 min
May 3, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Marion	42 min
May 3, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay	45 min
May 3, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jefferson, Wayne	55 min
May 3, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Jasper	52 min
May 3, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash	45 min
May 3, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	17 min
May 3, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Menard, Sangamon	59 min
May 3, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Adams	35 min
May 3, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian	37 min
May 3, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Sangamon	33 min
May 3, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Macon	26 min
May 3, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Macon	58 min
May 3, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Sangamon	46 min
May 3, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Moultrie, Piatt	50 min
May 3, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Douglas	53 min
May 3, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian	40 min
May 4, 11:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark	46 min
May 5, 2:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Montgomery	45 min
May 5, 2:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Bond	48 min
May 5, 3:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Fayette	28 min
May 5, 3:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Fayette	31 min
May 5, 3:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Effingham	55 min
May 5, 4:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Richland	60 min
May 5, 10:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign	42 min
May 5, 11:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Vermilion	59 min
May 5, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Pulaski, Union	60 min
May 5, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson	60 min
May 5, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson, Massac	53 min
May 5, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Williamson	53 min
May 5, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pope, Saline	69 min
May 5, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hardin	58 min
May 5, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gallatin	65 min
May 7, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Monroe	28 min
May 8, 12:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Macon, Shelby	41 min
May 8, 1:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Moultrie	33 min
May 8, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles, Douglas, Edgar	41 min
May 8, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Cumberland, Effingham	38 min
May 8, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Clay, Jasper	25 min
May 8, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Crawford, Jasper, Richland	30 min
May 8, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Crawford, Lawrence, Richland	43 min
May 9, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Woodford	45 min
May 9, 2:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Grundy, Will	64 min
May 9, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Marshall	22 min
May 9, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Woodford	48 min
May 9, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	LaSalle	48 min
May 9, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Livingston	33 min
May 10, 2:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Whiteside	54 min
May 10, 2:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Knox	44 min
May 10, 3:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Ogle	56 min
May 10, 4:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan, Menard	32 min
May 10, 7:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Shelby	30 min
May 10, 7:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Moultrie	43 min
May 16, 4:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Stephenson	64 min
May 16, 7:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Cook	67 min
May 16, 8:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Will	61 min
May 16, 8:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Kankakee	29 min
May 16, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Hancock	67 min
May 19, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Jo Daviess	30 min
May 24, 10:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Rock Island	55 min
May 24, 12:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Mercer	56 min
May 24, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Hancock, Henderson	45 min
May 24, 1:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	McDonough	64 min
May 24, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Edgar, Vermilion	51 min
May 25, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Calhoun, Greene, Jersey	43 min
May 25, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Morgan, Scott	39 min
May 25, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Greene, Jersey, Macoupin	60 min
May 25, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison, Saint Clair	66 min
May 25, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Sangamon	67 min
May 25, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Montgomery	67 min
May 25, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Clinton	65 min
May 25, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Bond	44 min
May 25, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Moultrie, Shelby	47 min
May 25, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Marion	60 min
May 25, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Fayette	50 min
May 25, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Effingham	25 min
May 25, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	55 min
May 25, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay	65 min
May 25, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Coles, Cumberland	45 min
May 25, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Richland	38 min
May 25, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Lawrence, Richland	62 min
May 26, 2:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian	61 min
May 26, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay	32 min
May 26, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Richland	37 min
May 27, 2:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike	53 min
May 27, 2:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Adams	53 min
May 27, 2:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Brown	30 min
May 27, 3:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Calhoun, Greene, Jersey	42 min
May 27, 3:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan, Tazewell	43 min
May 27, 4:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Logan, McLean	63 min
May 27, 4:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Monroe	51 min
May 27, 4:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Randolph, Saint Clair	49 min
May 27, 7:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson	35 min
May 27, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Adams	41 min
May 27, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Adams, Brown, Pike	45 min
May 27, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike	42 min
May 27, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Greene, Macoupin	50 min
May 27, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian	61 min
May 28, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	69 min

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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.