Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, July 2008
17 severe thunderstorm watches in July 2008. 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 July 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 17
- Busiest day
- July 21, 20083 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 10:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Kendall and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 2, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 19 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 7, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carroll, Jo Daviess, Rock Island, Stephenson, Whiteside | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 34 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 10, 1:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 23 more | 10 hr |
| Jul 12, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Champaign, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 39 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 19, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, DeKalb, Kane, Lee, McHenry, Ogle and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 20, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 12 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 20, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer, Rock Island, Warren | 8 hr |
| Jul 21, 4:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 44 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 21, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 21, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Cumberland and 26 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 21, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Edwards and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 27, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 20 more | 10 hr |
| Jul 27, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 31, 7:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carroll, Jo Daviess, Stephenson | 6 hr |
| Jul 31, 11:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy and 12 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Boone County5
- DeKalb County5
- Kane County5
- Lee County5
- McHenry County5
- Ogle County5
- Winnebago County5
- Henderson County5
- Mercer County5
- Rock Island County5
- Warren County5
- Cass County5
- Champaign County5
- Clark County5
- Clay County5
- Coles County5
- Crawford County5
- Cumberland County5
- Douglas County5
- Edgar County5
- Effingham County5
- Fulton County5
- Jasper County5
- Lawrence County5
- Mason County5
- Morgan County5
- Moultrie County5
- Piatt County5
- Richland County5
- Schuyler County5
- Scott County5
- Shelby County5
- Vermilion County5
- Cook County4
- DuPage County4
- Kendall County4
- Lake County4
- Will County4
- Carroll County4
- Grundy County4
62 more counties
- Jo Daviess County4
- LaSalle County4
- Stephenson County4
- Bond County4
- Christian County4
- DeWitt County4
- Fayette County4
- Macon County4
- Menard County4
- Montgomery County4
- Sangamon County4
- Ford County4
- Iroquois County4
- Livingston County4
- Hancock County4
- McDonough County4
- Bureau County3
- Henry County3
- Putnam County3
- Whiteside County3
- Adams County3
- Brown County3
- Calhoun County3
- Greene County3
- Jersey County3
- Logan County3
- Macoupin County3
- Peoria County3
- Pike County3
- Tazewell County3
- Kankakee County3
- Clinton County3
- Edwards County3
- Franklin County3
- Hamilton County3
- Jefferson County3
- Madison County3
- Marion County3
- Monroe County3
- Perry County3
- Randolph County3
- Saint Clair County3
- Wabash County3
- Washington County3
- Wayne County3
- White County3
- Knox County3
- Alexander County2
- Gallatin County2
- Hardin County2
- Jackson County2
- Johnson County2
- Massac County2
- Pope County2
- Pulaski County2
- Saline County2
- Union County2
- Williamson County2
- McLean County2
- Marshall County2
- Stark County2
- Woodford County2
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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.