Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2019
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, May 2019
11 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- May 16, 20192 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 16, 12:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Champaign, DeWitt, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 16, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Coles, Crawford, Douglas, Edgar, Lawrence | 3 hr |
| May 16, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford and 18 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Jersey, Madison, Monroe, Randolph, Saint Clair | 4 hr |
| May 19, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland | 5 hr |
| May 25, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, Christian, DeWitt, Fulton and 21 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Iroquois and 3 more | 3 hr |
| May 28, 12:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, Champaign, Christian, DeWitt and 23 more | 5 hr |
| May 28, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bureau, DeWitt, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, Henry and 14 more | 5 hr |
| May 28, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, LaSalle, Livingston | 4 hr |
| May 29, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jersey and 8 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ford County5
- Iroquois County5
- DeWitt County4
- Livingston County4
- McLean County4
- Champaign County3
- Grundy County3
- Kankakee County3
- Piatt County3
- Vermilion County3
- Douglas County3
- Henry County3
- Knox County3
- Mercer County3
- Rock Island County3
- Fulton County3
- Hancock County3
- Logan County3
- McDonough County3
- Mason County3
- Peoria County3
- Tazewell County3
- Woodford County3
- Will County2
- Clark County2
- Coles County2
- Crawford County2
- Edgar County2
- Lawrence County2
- Bureau County2
- LaSalle County2
- Marshall County2
- Putnam County2
- Stark County2
- Calhoun County2
- Jersey County2
- Madison County2
- Monroe County2
- Randolph County2
- Saint Clair County2
33 more counties
- Adams County2
- Brown County2
- Cass County2
- Christian County2
- Henderson County2
- Macon County2
- Menard County2
- Morgan County2
- Pike County2
- Sangamon County2
- Schuyler County2
- Scott County2
- Warren County2
- Moultrie County2
- Carroll County1
- Cook County1
- DeKalb County1
- DuPage County1
- Kane County1
- Kendall County1
- Lee County1
- Ogle County1
- Whiteside County1
- Jasper County1
- Richland County1
- Bond County1
- Clinton County1
- Fayette County1
- Greene County1
- Macoupin County1
- Marion County1
- Montgomery County1
- Washington 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.