Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2023

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, June 2023

8 severe thunderstorm watches in June 2023. 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 June 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Watches
8
Busiest day
June 29, 20235 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 31 more8 hr
Jun 25, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Hardin, Massac, Pope, Pulaski5 hr
Jun 29, 3:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChampaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 21 more6 hr
Jun 29, 5:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer and 2 more6 hr
Jun 29, 10:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBond, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 59 more6 hr
Jun 29, 1:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCEdwards, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Wabash, Wayne and 1 more8 hr
Jun 29, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCGallatin, Hardin, Pope, Saline, Williamson5 hr
Jun 30, 3:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Edwards, Franklin and 23 more7 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

58 more counties

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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.