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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Pike | 5 hr |
| May 10, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Calhoun, Clinton, Franklin, Jackson, Jersey and 12 more | 5 hr |
| May 25, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 19 more | 4 hr |
| May 25, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cook, DuPage, Ford, Fulton, Grundy, Iroquois and 13 more | 5 hr |
| May 30, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Crawford and 19 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Calhoun County4
- Jersey County4
- Clinton County4
- Madison County4
- Monroe County4
- Randolph County4
- Saint Clair County4
- Washington County4
- Greene County3
- Perry County3
- Bond County3
- Fayette County3
- Marion County3
- Adams County2
- Brown County2
- Pike County2
- Alexander County2
- Franklin County2
- Jackson County2
- Johnson County2
- Massac County2
- Pope County2
- Pulaski County2
- Union County2
- Williamson County2
- Macoupin County2
- Montgomery County2
- Edwards County2
- Jefferson County2
- Wabash County2
- Wayne County2
- Clark County2
- Clay County2
- Coles County2
- Crawford County2
- Cumberland County2
- Effingham County2
- Jasper County2
- Lawrence County2
- Richland County2
27 more counties
- Shelby County2
- Gallatin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Saline County1
- White County1
- Moultrie County1
- Cook County1
- DuPage County1
- Ford County1
- Fulton County1
- Grundy County1
- Iroquois County1
- Kane County1
- Kankakee County1
- Kendall County1
- Knox County1
- Livingston County1
- McLean County1
- Marshall County1
- Mason County1
- Peoria County1
- Stark County1
- Tazewell County1
- Will County1
- Woodford County1
- Edgar 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.