Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, August 2001
6 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2001. 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 August 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- August 18, 20012 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Fulton, Greene and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 18, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crawford, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 22, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 22, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 29 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 30, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer, Rock Island and 2 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hancock County4
- McDonough County4
- Adams County3
- Calhoun County3
- Fulton County3
- Greene County3
- Henderson County3
- Macoupin County3
- Mercer County3
- Montgomery County3
- Schuyler County3
- Warren County3
- Brown County2
- Cass County2
- Knox County2
- Mason County2
- Menard County2
- Morgan County2
- Peoria County2
- Pike County2
- Sangamon County2
- Scott County2
- Christian County2
- Coles County2
- Crawford County2
- Jersey County2
- Richland County2
- Shelby County2
- Wayne County2
- Ford County2
- Iroquois County2
- McLean County2
- Rock Island County2
- Tazewell County2
- Woodford County2
- Bond County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Cumberland County1
55 more counties
- Effingham County1
- Fayette County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Perry County1
- Randolph County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Washington County1
- Edwards County1
- Franklin County1
- Gallatin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Lawrence County1
- Saline County1
- Wabash County1
- White County1
- Williamson County1
- Boone County1
- Bureau County1
- Carroll County1
- Cook County1
- DeKalb County1
- DuPage County1
- Grundy County1
- Henry County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Kane County1
- Kankakee County1
- Kendall County1
- Lake County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lee County1
- Livingston County1
- McHenry County1
- Marshall County1
- Ogle County1
- Putnam County1
- Stark County1
- Stephenson County1
- Whiteside County1
- Will County1
- Winnebago County1
- Champaign County1
- DeWitt County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Logan County1
- Macon County1
- Moultrie County1
- Piatt County1
- Vermilion 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.