Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, July 1997
8 severe thunderstorm watches in July 1997. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in July 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- July 18, 19973 severe thunderstorm watches
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 14, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Johnson and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 18, 10:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Carroll, DeKalb, Jo Daviess, Lee, McHenry and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 18, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cook, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 18, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Ford and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 26, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cook, DuPage, Kendall, Lake, Will | 6 hr |
| Jul 27, 8:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Kendall and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 27, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas and 34 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Will County4
- Champaign County3
- Coles County3
- Douglas County3
- Edgar County3
- Ford County3
- Iroquois County3
- Vermilion County3
- McHenry County3
- Cook County3
- DuPage County3
- Kendall County3
- Lake County3
- Clark County2
- Clay County2
- Lawrence County2
- Moultrie County2
- Piatt County2
- Richland County2
- Boone County2
- DeKalb County2
- Lee County2
- Ogle County2
- Whiteside County2
- Winnebago County2
- Grundy County2
- Kane County2
- Kankakee County2
- LaSalle County2
- Bond County1
- Crawford County1
- Cumberland County1
- Effingham County1
- Fayette County1
- Jasper County1
- Shelby County1
- Edwards County1
- Gallatin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
37 more counties
- Johnson County1
- Massac County1
- Pope County1
- Pulaski County1
- Saline County1
- Wabash County1
- Wayne County1
- White County1
- Williamson County1
- Carroll County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Stephenson County1
- Bureau County1
- Cass County1
- DeWitt County1
- Fulton County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Henry County1
- Knox County1
- Livingston County1
- Logan County1
- McDonough County1
- McLean County1
- Macon County1
- Marshall County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Mercer County1
- Peoria County1
- Putnam County1
- Rock Island County1
- Schuyler County1
- Stark County1
- Tazewell County1
- Warren County1
- Woodford County1
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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.