Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2000
Tornado Watches in Illinois, May 2000
13 tornado watches in May 2000. 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 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest day
- May 12, 20003 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 8, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Carroll, Cass and 36 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, Fulton, Hancock, McDonough and 7 more | 5 hr |
| May 9, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 11, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bureau, Carroll, Henry, Jo Daviess, Lee, Rock Island and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 11, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Carroll, DeKalb, Jo Daviess, Lee, McHenry and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, Cook, Cumberland and 28 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Clay, Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland | 6 hr |
| May 18, 11:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bureau, Champaign, DeWitt, Ford, Fulton, Grundy and 26 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 39 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 40 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Grundy County5
- Mason County5
- Menard County5
- Rock Island County5
- Tazewell County5
- Whiteside County5
- Union County5
- Bureau County4
- Cass County4
- Fulton County4
- Hancock County4
- Henry County4
- Kendall County4
- LaSalle County4
- Lee County4
- McDonough County4
- Mercer County4
- Morgan County4
- Scott County4
- Woodford County4
- Alexander County4
- Hardin County4
- Johnson County4
- Massac County4
- Pope County4
- Pulaski County4
- DeWitt County4
- Livingston County4
- Logan County4
- McLean County4
- Jackson County4
- Adams County3
- Brown County3
- Carroll County3
- DuPage County3
- Henderson County3
- Jo Daviess County3
- Knox County3
- Marshall County3
- Peoria County3
60 more counties
- Pike County3
- Putnam County3
- Schuyler County3
- Stark County3
- Stephenson County3
- Warren County3
- Champaign County3
- Christian County3
- Ford County3
- Greene County3
- Iroquois County3
- Kankakee County3
- Piatt County3
- Sangamon County3
- Vermilion County3
- Will County3
- Gallatin County3
- Saline County3
- Williamson County3
- Boone County2
- Cook County2
- DeKalb County2
- Lake County2
- McHenry County2
- Ogle County2
- Winnebago County2
- Coles County2
- Cumberland County2
- Douglas County2
- Edgar County2
- Macon County2
- Moultrie County2
- Shelby County2
- Clark County2
- Clay County2
- Jasper County2
- Richland County2
- Jersey County2
- Macoupin County2
- Madison County2
- Monroe County2
- Montgomery County2
- Saint Clair County2
- Franklin County2
- Jefferson County2
- Perry County2
- Kane County1
- Crawford County1
- Lawrence County1
- Calhoun County1
- Bond County1
- Clinton County1
- Effingham County1
- Fayette County1
- Marion County1
- Randolph County1
- Washington County1
- Wayne County1
- Hamilton County1
- White 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.