Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, May 2013
5 severe thunderstorm watches in May 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 May 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 20, 20131 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cook County2
- DuPage County2
- Ford County2
- Grundy County2
- Iroquois County2
- Kane County2
- Kankakee County2
- Kendall County2
- Lake County2
- McHenry County2
- Will County2
- Champaign County2
- Christian County2
- Clark County2
- Clay County2
- Coles County2
- Crawford County2
- Cumberland County2
- Douglas County2
- Edgar County2
- Effingham County2
- Jasper County2
- Lawrence County2
- Macon County2
- Moultrie County2
- Piatt County2
- Richland County2
- Shelby County2
- Vermilion County2
- Henderson County1
- Mercer County1
- Warren County1
- Boone County1
- Bureau County1
- Carroll County1
- DeKalb County1
- Henry County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lee County1
27 more counties
- Livingston County1
- Ogle County1
- Putnam County1
- Rock Island County1
- Stephenson County1
- Whiteside County1
- Winnebago County1
- Bond County1
- Clinton County1
- Edwards County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Jefferson County1
- Jersey County1
- Macoupin County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Perry County1
- Randolph County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Wabash County1
- Washington County1
- Wayne County1
- White 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.