Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Illinois, May 1997
5 tornado watches in May 1997. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 18, 19972 tornado 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 2, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Clay, Clinton, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Henderson, Jo Daviess, Mercer, Rock Island | 7 hr |
| May 18, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt and 38 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Iroquois | 5 hr |
| May 26, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson and 7 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alexander County2
- Franklin County2
- Gallatin County2
- Hardin County2
- Jackson County2
- Johnson County2
- Massac County2
- Perry County2
- Pope County2
- Pulaski County2
- Saline County2
- Union County2
- Williamson County2
- Henderson County2
- Jo Daviess County2
- Mercer County2
- Rock Island County2
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Edwards County1
- Hamilton County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Marion County1
- Randolph County1
- Richland County1
- Wabash County1
- Washington County1
- Wayne County1
- White County1
- Boone County1
- Bureau County1
- Carroll County1
- Cook County1
- DeKalb County1
- DeWitt County1
- DuPage County1
- Ford County1
- Fulton County1
- Grundy County1
31 more counties
- Hancock County1
- Henry County1
- Kane County1
- Kankakee County1
- Kendall County1
- Knox County1
- Lake County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lee County1
- Livingston County1
- Logan County1
- McDonough County1
- McHenry County1
- McLean County1
- Marshall County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Ogle County1
- Peoria County1
- Piatt County1
- Putnam County1
- Schuyler County1
- Stark County1
- Stephenson County1
- Tazewell County1
- Warren County1
- Whiteside County1
- Will County1
- Winnebago County1
- Woodford County1
- Iroquois County1
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.