Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, May 2016
9 severe thunderstorm watches in May 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 May 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 7, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Clay, Crawford, Cumberland, Edgar, Effingham and 3 more | 4 hr |
| May 7, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 26 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Franklin, Gallatin, Saline | 6 hr |
| May 9, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 12:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski and 1 more | 9 hr |
| May 11, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 48 more | 12 hr |
| May 11, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Franklin, Gallatin, Greene and 19 more | 7 hr |
| May 13, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, Knox and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 28, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb and 24 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Gallatin County4
- Saline County4
- Union County4
- Clark County3
- Clay County3
- Crawford County3
- Cumberland County3
- Effingham County3
- Jasper County3
- Lawrence County3
- Richland County3
- Bond County3
- Calhoun County3
- Clinton County3
- Greene County3
- Hamilton County3
- Jersey County3
- Macoupin County3
- Madison County3
- Monroe County3
- Montgomery County3
- Saint Clair County3
- Washington County3
- Franklin County3
- Hardin County3
- Jackson County3
- Johnson County3
- Massac County3
- Pope County3
- Williamson County3
- Pike County3
- Edgar County2
- Christian County2
- Edwards County2
- Fayette County2
- Jefferson County2
- Marion County2
- Morgan County2
- Sangamon County2
- Scott County2
49 more counties
- Shelby County2
- Wabash County2
- Wayne County2
- White County2
- Alexander County2
- Pulaski County2
- Mason County2
- Perry County2
- Randolph County2
- Adams County2
- Brown County2
- Fulton County2
- Hancock County2
- Henderson County2
- Knox County2
- McDonough County2
- Mercer County2
- Schuyler County2
- Warren County2
- Cass County1
- Champaign County1
- Coles County1
- DeWitt County1
- Douglas County1
- Logan County1
- Macon County1
- Menard County1
- Moultrie County1
- Piatt County1
- Vermilion County1
- Boone County1
- Bureau County1
- Carroll County1
- DeKalb County1
- Henry County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Lee County1
- McHenry County1
- Marshall County1
- Ogle County1
- Peoria County1
- Putnam County1
- Rock Island County1
- Stark County1
- Stephenson County1
- Tazewell County1
- Whiteside County1
- Winnebago County1
- Woodford 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.