Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2011

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, May 2011

10 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2011. 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Watches
10
Busiest day
May 11, 20112 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 7, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChampaign, Clark, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar and 18 more7 hr
May 11, 1:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, DeKalb, DeWitt and 33 more6 hr
May 11, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy and 12 more5 hr
May 13, 12:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski and 1 more6 hr
May 23, 10:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Edwards, Fayette and 27 more7 hr
May 23, 12:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChampaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 13 more5 hr
May 24, 1:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin and 4 more5 hr
May 28, 2:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChampaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 10 more5 hr
May 29, 8:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 33 more6 hr
May 31, 2:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChampaign, Christian, Coles, Cook, DeWitt, Douglas and 21 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.