Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, 2013
27 severe thunderstorm watches in 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 27
- Busiest month
- June11 severe thunderstorm watches
- Busiest day
- June 24, 20133 severe thunderstorm watches
Over time
By month
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 12:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 10, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 33 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 16, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian, DeWitt and 19 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 17, 9:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 30 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 17, 12:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Hardin, Pope | 5 hr |
| Apr 29, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carroll, Jo Daviess, Rock Island, Stephenson | 5 hr |
| May 20, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Henderson, Mercer, Warren | 5 hr |
| May 20, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 32 more | 5 hr |
| May 30, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cook, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kane and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 9, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 47 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cook, DuPage, Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee, Lake and 1 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 8:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Grundy, Henry and 13 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 24, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, Christian and 29 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 24, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 24, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Moultrie, Piatt and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Crawford and 32 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 25, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 47 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 26, 2:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 11 hr |
| Jul 22, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carroll, Henry, Jo Daviess, Mercer, Rock Island, Whiteside | 5 hr |
| Aug 6, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer, Rock Island, Warren | 3 hr |
| Aug 30, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 31, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 34 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 19, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Mercer and 6 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Moultrie County11
- Christian County11
- Coles County10
- Douglas County10
- Edgar County10
- Effingham County10
- Piatt County10
- Shelby County10
- Macon County10
- Champaign County9
- Clark County9
- Crawford County9
- Cumberland County9
- Jasper County9
- Vermilion County9
- Sangamon County9
- Rock Island County9
- Clay County8
- Lawrence County8
- Richland County8
- Carroll County8
- Grundy County8
- Jo Daviess County8
- Kendall County8
- Mercer County8
- Whiteside County8
- Will County8
- Cass County7
- DeWitt County7
- Ford County7
- Iroquois County7
- Logan County7
- McLean County7
- Menard County7
- Morgan County7
- Henry County7
- Kankakee County7
- LaSalle County7
- Stephenson County7
- Macoupin County6
62 more counties
- Mason County6
- Tazewell County6
- Bond County6
- Fayette County6
- Montgomery County6
- Boone County6
- Bureau County6
- Cook County6
- DuPage County6
- Henderson County6
- Kane County6
- Lake County6
- Lee County6
- McHenry County6
- Ogle County6
- Putnam County6
- Warren County6
- Winnebago County6
- Fulton County5
- Madison County5
- DeKalb County5
- Livingston County5
- Edwards County5
- Wabash County5
- Wayne County5
- Brown County4
- Jersey County4
- Pike County4
- Schuyler County4
- Scott County4
- Hancock County4
- Knox County4
- McDonough County4
- Marshall County4
- Peoria County4
- Stark County4
- Woodford County4
- Marion County4
- Monroe County4
- Saint Clair County4
- Adams County3
- Calhoun County3
- Greene County3
- Hardin County3
- Pope County3
- Clinton County3
- Franklin County3
- Hamilton County3
- Jefferson County3
- Perry County3
- Washington County3
- White County3
- Randolph County2
- Alexander County2
- Gallatin County2
- Jackson County2
- Johnson County2
- Massac County2
- Pulaski County2
- Saline County2
- Union County2
- Williamson County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.