Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings / 2006
Tornado Warnings in Illinois, May 2006
17 tornado warnings in May 2006. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.
Tornado Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2006. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 17
- Busiest day
- May 24, 20065 tornado warnings
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, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Knox, Peoria, Stark | 40 min |
| May 1, 10:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Randolph | 35 min |
| May 1, 10:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Washington | 26 min |
| May 1, 11:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Perry | 41 min |
| May 10, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | White | 25 min |
| May 17, 5:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Peoria, Stark, Woodford | 29 min |
| May 17, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford | 44 min |
| May 17, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford | 44 min |
| May 17, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Piatt | 49 min |
| May 17, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas | 45 min |
| May 24, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Moultrie, Shelby | 32 min |
| May 24, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas | 36 min |
| May 24, 5:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clark, Edgar | 41 min |
| May 24, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Bond, Fayette, Montgomery | 39 min |
| May 24, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas | 18 min |
| May 27, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | LaSalle, Lee | 47 min |
| May 31, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas, Piatt | 42 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Peoria County4
- Douglas County4
- Woodford County3
- Stark County2
- Tazewell County2
- Piatt County2
- Champaign County2
- Coles County2
- Knox County1
- Randolph County1
- Washington County1
- Perry County1
- White County1
- Moultrie County1
- Shelby County1
- Clark County1
- Edgar County1
- Bond County1
- Fayette County1
- Montgomery County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lee County1
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20052007
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. Rebuilt daily.