Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2008

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, May 2008

7 severe thunderstorm watches in May 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 May 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Watches
7
Busiest day
May 25, 20082 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 2, 5:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Pike5 hr
May 10, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Calhoun, Clinton, Franklin, Jackson, Jersey and 12 more5 hr
May 25, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette and 11 more6 hr
May 25, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more7 hr
May 25, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBond, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 19 more4 hr
May 25, 11:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCook, DuPage, Ford, Fulton, Grundy, Iroquois and 13 more5 hr
May 30, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBond, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Crawford and 19 more5 hr

By county

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

27 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.