Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings / 2016
Tornado Warnings in Illinois, May 2016
20 tornado warnings 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.
Tornado Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 20
- Busiest day
- May 11, 201610 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, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clay, Jasper, Richland | 37 min |
| May 1, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland | 38 min |
| May 10, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Pope, Saline | 31 min |
| May 10, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Johnson, Pope | 29 min |
| May 10, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gallatin | 34 min |
| May 10, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Hardin, Saline | 31 min |
| May 10, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Hardin, Pope | 29 min |
| May 10, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Johnson, Pope | 23 min |
| May 10, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Hardin | 33 min |
| May 10, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Hardin | 34 min |
| May 11, 3:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Jefferson | 26 min |
| May 11, 4:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper | 29 min |
| May 11, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Wabash | 25 min |
| May 11, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Wabash | 11 min |
| May 11, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | White | 32 min |
| May 11, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash | 28 min |
| May 11, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Franklin, Hamilton, Saline, Williamson | 30 min |
| May 11, 6:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Jackson | 42 min |
| May 11, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Franklin, Jackson, Perry, Williamson | 30 min |
| May 11, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Franklin, Hamilton, Saline, Williamson | 45 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pope County4
- Saline County4
- Hardin County4
- Jasper County3
- Gallatin County3
- Wabash County3
- Franklin County3
- Williamson County3
- Richland County2
- Johnson County2
- Hamilton County2
- Jackson County2
- Clay County1
- Crawford County1
- Lawrence County1
- Jefferson County1
- Cumberland County1
- Effingham County1
- White County1
- Edwards County1
- Perry 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. Rebuilt daily.