Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2004

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, August 2004

12 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2004. 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 2004. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Watches
12
Busiest day
August 27, 20044 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 8:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Monroe and 2 more5 hr
Aug 3, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford and 21 more5 hr
Aug 3, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCFulton, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Knox, McDonough and 3 more5 hr
Aug 3, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 32 more6 hr
Aug 17, 1:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 41 more6 hr
Aug 18, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 28 more5 hr
Aug 24, 1:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBond, Clinton, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson and 9 more6 hr
Aug 25, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCMonroe, Saint Clair6 hr
Aug 26, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Mercer and 5 more6 hr
Aug 27, 1:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt, DuPage and 25 more6 hr
Aug 27, 9:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Calhoun, Cass, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin and 7 more5 hr
Aug 27, 2:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCalhoun, Cass, Greene, Jersey, Morgan, Pike and 1 more6 hr

By county

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

44 more counties

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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.