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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 12:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy and 11 more7 hr
May 11, 1:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Fulton, Greene and 11 more6 hr
May 12, 10:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 20 more6 hr
May 13, 12:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 6 more7 hr
May 13, 1:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCGallatin, Hardin, Lawrence, Massac, Pope, Saline and 2 more7 hr
May 13, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Crawford, Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 11 more5 hr
May 19, 11:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Bond, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 32 more8 hr
May 19, 1:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy and 25 more8 hr
May 19, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBond, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clay, Clinton and 40 more6 hr
May 19, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCLawrence, Wabash5 hr
May 19, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 16 more7 hr

By county

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

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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.