Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Illinois, May 2002
3 tornado watches in May 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 2, 20022 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 1, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 39 more | 4 hr |
| May 1, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Clinton, Madison, Monroe, Randolph, Saint Clair and 1 more | 4 hr |
| May 1, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Clay, Crawford, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin and 21 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Randolph County3
- Washington County3
- Bond County2
- Clay County2
- Clinton County2
- Crawford County2
- Edwards County2
- Franklin County2
- Gallatin County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Jackson County2
- Jasper County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Marion County2
- Perry County2
- Pope County2
- Richland County2
- Saline County2
- Union County2
- Wabash County2
- Wayne County2
- White County2
- Williamson County2
- Champaign County1
- Christian County1
- Clark County1
- Coles County1
- Cumberland County1
- DeWitt County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Effingham County1
- Fayette County1
- Logan County1
- Macon County1
- Menard County1
- Montgomery 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.