Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings / 2012

Tornado Warnings in Illinois, May 2012

12 tornado warnings in May 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings: 12
Busiest day: May 6, 20128 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, 4:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign	44 min
May 1, 4:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	52 min
May 1, 5:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Vermilion	13 min
May 3, 9:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Mercer	17 min
May 6, 2:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Bureau	26 min
May 6, 2:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Marshall, Stark	39 min
May 6, 3:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Marshall	53 min
May 6, 3:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Iroquois	64 min
May 6, 3:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	LaSalle, Livingston	48 min
May 6, 4:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Iroquois	44 min
May 6, 5:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Vermilion	39 min
May 6, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Ford, Iroquois	50 min

By county

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

Nearby

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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. Rebuilt daily.