Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, May 2014
11 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2014. 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- May 12, 20143 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 9, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 37 more | 7 hr |
| May 10, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Jersey, Madison, Monroe, Saint Clair | 9 hr |
| May 11, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford and 23 more | 7 hr |
| May 12, 10:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Lake and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry and 8 more | 7 hr |
| May 12, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Kendall and 6 more | 7 hr |
| May 20, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 17 more | 7 hr |
| May 21, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, DeWitt, Douglas and 10 more | 5 hr |
| May 21, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jefferson and 7 more | 13 hr |
| May 21, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 19 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Massac, Pulaski | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Boone County4
- Cook County4
- DeKalb County4
- DuPage County4
- Kane County4
- Lake County4
- Lee County4
- McHenry County4
- Ogle County4
- Winnebago County4
- Clark County3
- Coles County3
- Cumberland County3
- Douglas County3
- Edgar County3
- Moultrie County3
- Bureau County3
- Jo Daviess County3
- Kendall County3
- LaSalle County3
- Putnam County3
- Stephenson County3
- Tazewell County3
- Alexander County2
- Clay County2
- Crawford County2
- Edwards County2
- Effingham County2
- Franklin County2
- Gallatin County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Jasper County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Madison County2
- Massac County2
- Monroe County2
- Pope County2
55 more counties
- Pulaski County2
- Richland County2
- Saint Clair County2
- Saline County2
- Shelby County2
- Wabash County2
- Wayne County2
- White County2
- Williamson County2
- Grundy County2
- Peoria County2
- Will County2
- Woodford County2
- Carroll County2
- Henry County2
- Mercer County2
- Rock Island County2
- Whiteside County2
- Champaign County2
- DeWitt County2
- Logan County2
- McLean County2
- Macon County2
- Piatt County2
- Vermilion County2
- Bond County1
- Clinton County1
- Fayette County1
- Jackson County1
- Macoupin County1
- Marion County1
- Montgomery County1
- Perry County1
- Randolph County1
- Union County1
- Washington County1
- Calhoun County1
- Jersey County1
- Ford County1
- Fulton County1
- Iroquois County1
- Kankakee County1
- Knox County1
- Livingston County1
- Marshall County1
- Stark County1
- Adams County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- McDonough County1
- Warren County1
- Christian County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Sangamon County1
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20132015
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.