Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, May 2000
18 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2000. 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 May 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 18
- Busiest day
- May 9, 20004 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy and 15 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy and 21 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Champaign, Christian, Coles, Cook, DeWitt, Douglas and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Jersey, Monroe | 6 hr |
| May 9, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 19 more | 7 hr |
| May 12, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Effingham, Fayette, Jersey and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 5 hr |
| May 12, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gallatin, Hardin, Massac, Pope, Pulaski | 6 hr |
| May 22, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison, Monroe and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 8:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson and 7 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 8:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski, Union | 6 hr |
| May 24, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Jackson | 7 hr |
| May 26, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison, Monroe and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 35 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Henry, Jo Daviess and 10 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Mercer, Rock Island and 3 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Champaign, Ford, Iroquois, Piatt, Vermilion | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Gallatin County5
- Alexander County5
- Massac County5
- Pope County5
- Pulaski County5
- Carroll County4
- Henry County4
- Mercer County4
- Rock Island County4
- Stephenson County4
- Whiteside County4
- Macoupin County4
- Calhoun County4
- Jersey County4
- Monroe County4
- Franklin County4
- Jackson County4
- Saline County4
- Madison County4
- Saint Clair County4
- Hardin County4
- Johnson County4
- Union County4
- Boone County3
- Bureau County3
- DeKalb County3
- Grundy County3
- Jo Daviess County3
- LaSalle County3
- Lee County3
- McHenry County3
- Ogle County3
- Putnam County3
- Winnebago County3
- Coles County3
- Douglas County3
- Greene County3
- Montgomery County3
- Piatt County3
- Vermilion County3
54 more counties
- Edwards County3
- Effingham County3
- Hamilton County3
- Jefferson County3
- Perry County3
- Wabash County3
- Wayne County3
- White County3
- Williamson County3
- Randolph County3
- DuPage County2
- Kane County2
- Kendall County2
- Lake County2
- Henderson County2
- Warren County2
- Champaign County2
- Christian County2
- DeWitt County2
- Ford County2
- Iroquois County2
- Logan County2
- Macon County2
- Menard County2
- Moultrie County2
- Sangamon County2
- Shelby County2
- Clark County2
- Clay County2
- Crawford County2
- Cumberland County2
- Edgar County2
- Jasper County2
- Lawrence County2
- Marion County2
- Richland County2
- Bond County2
- Clinton County2
- Fayette County2
- Washington County2
- Knox County1
- Marshall County1
- Peoria County1
- Stark County1
- Woodford County1
- Cook County1
- Kankakee County1
- Livingston County1
- McLean County1
- Morgan County1
- Will County1
- Pike County1
- Scott County1
- Mason 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. Rebuilt daily.