Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, May 2006
8 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2006. 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 2006. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 24, 20063 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 1, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Clinton, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 1:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 14 more | 7 hr |
| May 17, 12:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cook, DuPage, Iroquois, Kankakee, Will | 5 hr |
| May 24, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 15 more | 7 hr |
| May 24, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kane, Lake, McHenry | 4 hr |
| May 27, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Fulton, Grundy and 26 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alexander County3
- Edwards County3
- Franklin County3
- Gallatin County3
- Hamilton County3
- Hardin County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Johnson County3
- Massac County3
- Perry County3
- Pope County3
- Pulaski County3
- Randolph County3
- Saline County3
- Union County3
- Wabash County3
- Wayne County3
- White County3
- Williamson County3
- Kane County3
- McHenry County3
- Washington County2
- Boone County2
- Bureau County2
- Carroll County2
- Cook County2
- DeKalb County2
- DuPage County2
- Grundy County2
- Henry County2
- Jo Daviess County2
- Kendall County2
- Lake County2
- LaSalle County2
- Lee County2
- Ogle County2
- Putnam County2
- Stephenson County2
- Whiteside County2
40 more counties
- Will County2
- Winnebago County2
- Iroquois County2
- Kankakee County2
- Marshall County2
- Mason County2
- Peoria County2
- Stark County2
- Tazewell County2
- Woodford County2
- Clinton County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Champaign County1
- Christian County1
- Coles County1
- DeWitt County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Ford County1
- Livingston County1
- Logan County1
- McLean County1
- Macon County1
- Menard County1
- Moultrie County1
- Piatt County1
- Sangamon County1
- Shelby County1
- Vermilion County1
- Fulton County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Knox County1
- McDonough County1
- Mercer County1
- Rock Island County1
- Schuyler County1
- Warren 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.