Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2012

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, September 2012

10 severe thunderstorm watches in September 2012. 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 September 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Watches
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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
Sep 4, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCJo Daviess8 hr
Sep 4, 8:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy and 13 more5 hr
Sep 5, 9:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBond, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Crawford and 24 more6 hr
Sep 5, 1:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCHardin5 hr
Sep 5, 2:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski, Union8 hr
Sep 6, 12:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Clinton, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 9 more9 hr
Sep 7, 2:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jersey and 8 more6 hr
Sep 7, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChristian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 8 more6 hr
Sep 7, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more7 hr
Sep 25, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBond, Clinton, Edwards, Fayette, Franklin, Hamilton and 11 more6 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.