Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, May 2005
11 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2005. 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 2005. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- May 13, 20053 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 9, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Fulton, Greene and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 13, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 6 more | 7 hr |
| May 13, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gallatin, Hardin, Lawrence, Massac, Pope, Saline and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 13, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Crawford, Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 11 more | 5 hr |
| May 19, 11:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 32 more | 8 hr |
| May 19, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy and 25 more | 8 hr |
| May 19, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clay, Clinton and 40 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lawrence, Wabash | 5 hr |
| May 19, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 16 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wabash County6
- Lawrence County5
- Gallatin County5
- Saline County5
- White County5
- Richland County4
- Hardin County4
- Pope County4
- Edwards County4
- Hamilton County4
- Johnson County4
- Union County4
- Williamson County4
- Cass County3
- Hancock County3
- Macoupin County3
- Madison County3
- Menard County3
- Morgan County3
- Bond County3
- Clinton County3
- Fayette County3
- Marion County3
- Saint Clair County3
- Shelby County3
- Clay County3
- Coles County3
- Crawford County3
- Cumberland County3
- Douglas County3
- Jasper County3
- Massac County3
- Alexander County3
- Pulaski County3
- Franklin County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Monroe County3
- Perry County3
- Randolph County3
58 more counties
- Washington County3
- Wayne County3
- Boone County2
- Bureau County2
- DeKalb County2
- DuPage County2
- Grundy County2
- Kane County2
- Kendall County2
- LaSalle County2
- Lee County2
- McHenry County2
- Ogle County2
- Putnam County2
- Stephenson County2
- Will County2
- Winnebago County2
- Adams County2
- Brown County2
- Calhoun County2
- Greene County2
- Jersey County2
- McDonough County2
- Mason County2
- Pike County2
- Schuyler County2
- Scott County2
- Christian County2
- Logan County2
- Macon County2
- Montgomery County2
- Sangamon County2
- Clark County2
- Edgar County2
- Vermilion County2
- Effingham County2
- Moultrie County2
- Cook County1
- Lake County1
- Fulton County1
- Iroquois County1
- Carroll County1
- Henderson County1
- Henry County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Kankakee County1
- Knox County1
- Marshall County1
- Mercer County1
- Peoria County1
- Rock Island County1
- Stark County1
- Warren County1
- Whiteside County1
- Woodford County1
- Champaign County1
- DeWitt County1
- Piatt 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.