Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, April 2016
4 severe thunderstorm watches in April 2016. 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 April 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- April 26, 20162 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 20 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 26, 11:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Christian, Clay, Clinton, Effingham and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Edgar and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene and 10 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bond County2
- Calhoun County2
- Clinton County2
- Fayette County2
- Greene County2
- Jersey County2
- Macoupin County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pike County2
- Randolph County2
- Saint Clair County2
- Washington County2
- Boone County1
- Bureau County1
- Carroll County1
- Cook County1
- DeKalb County1
- DuPage County1
- Grundy County1
- Henry County1
- Kane County1
- Kankakee County1
- Kendall County1
- Knox County1
- Lake County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lee County1
- McHenry County1
- Marshall County1
- Mercer County1
- Ogle County1
- Putnam County1
- Rock Island County1
- Stark County1
- Stephenson County1
- Whiteside County1
- Will County1
36 more counties
- Winnebago County1
- Christian County1
- Clay County1
- Effingham County1
- Jackson County1
- Morgan County1
- Perry County1
- Sangamon County1
- Scott County1
- Shelby County1
- Alexander County1
- Clark County1
- Coles County1
- Crawford County1
- Cumberland County1
- Edgar County1
- Edwards County1
- Franklin County1
- Gallatin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Massac County1
- Pope County1
- Pulaski County1
- Richland County1
- Saline County1
- Union County1
- Wabash County1
- Wayne County1
- White County1
- Williamson County1
- Brown 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.