Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, July 2016
11 severe thunderstorm watches in July 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 July 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- July 6, 20163 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Carroll, DeKalb, Jo Daviess, Lee, Ogle and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 6, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Cook, DeWitt, DuPage and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 10:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 6:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 12:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Johnson, Massac and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 13, 11:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Hancock, Pike | 5 hr |
| Jul 13, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 76 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 17, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, LaSalle, Livingston and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 21, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 16 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Grundy County5
- LaSalle County5
- Will County5
- Lee County4
- Rock Island County4
- Whiteside County4
- Bureau County4
- Ford County4
- Henry County4
- Iroquois County4
- Kankakee County4
- Kendall County4
- Livingston County4
- Putnam County4
- Boone County3
- Carroll County3
- DeKalb County3
- Jo Daviess County3
- Ogle County3
- Stephenson County3
- Winnebago County3
- Cook County3
- DuPage County3
- Hancock County3
- Henderson County3
- Kane County3
- Lake County3
- McDonough County3
- McHenry County3
- McLean County3
- Marshall County3
- Peoria County3
- Stark County3
- Tazewell County3
- Warren County3
- Woodford County3
- Gallatin County3
- Hardin County3
- Johnson County3
- Pope County3
62 more counties
- Saline County3
- Adams County3
- Brown County3
- Calhoun County3
- Greene County3
- Jersey County3
- Macoupin County3
- Madison County3
- Pike County3
- Cass County2
- Champaign County2
- DeWitt County2
- Fulton County2
- Knox County2
- Logan County2
- Macon County2
- Mason County2
- Menard County2
- Mercer County2
- Piatt County2
- Schuyler County2
- Vermilion County2
- Jackson County2
- Massac County2
- Pulaski County2
- Union County2
- Williamson County2
- Bond County2
- Clinton County2
- Fayette County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Montgomery County2
- Randolph County2
- Saint Clair County2
- Washington County2
- Edwards County2
- Hamilton County2
- Wabash County2
- White County2
- Alexander County1
- Christian County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Coles County1
- Crawford County1
- Cumberland County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Effingham County1
- Franklin County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Morgan County1
- Moultrie County1
- Perry County1
- Richland County1
- Sangamon County1
- Scott County1
- Shelby County1
- Wayne 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.