Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2006
Tornado Watches in Illinois, May 2006
5 tornado watches in May 2006. 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 2006. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 24, 20062 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, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene and 13 more | 7 hr |
| May 24, 12:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Greene, Pike | 7 hr |
| May 24, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, Champaign and 63 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 1:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Clay, Crawford, Cumberland, Edgar, Edwards and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alexander County2
- Bond County2
- Calhoun County2
- Clinton County2
- Fayette County2
- Greene County2
- Jackson County2
- Jersey County2
- Macoupin County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Montgomery County2
- Perry County2
- Pulaski County2
- Saint Clair County2
- Union County2
- Washington County2
- Clark County2
- Clay County2
- Crawford County2
- Cumberland County2
- Edgar County2
- Effingham County2
- Jasper County2
- Lawrence County2
- Richland County2
- Randolph County1
- Adams County1
- Brown County1
- Pike County1
- Boone County1
- Bureau County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Champaign County1
- Christian County1
- Coles County1
- DeKalb County1
- DeWitt County1
54 more counties
- Douglas County1
- Ford County1
- Fulton County1
- Grundy County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Henry County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Kendall County1
- Knox County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lee County1
- Livingston County1
- Logan County1
- McDonough County1
- McLean County1
- Macon County1
- Marshall County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Mercer County1
- Morgan County1
- Moultrie County1
- Ogle County1
- Peoria County1
- Piatt County1
- Putnam County1
- Rock Island County1
- Sangamon County1
- Schuyler County1
- Scott County1
- Shelby County1
- Stark County1
- Stephenson County1
- Tazewell County1
- Vermilion County1
- Warren County1
- Whiteside County1
- Winnebago County1
- Woodford County1
- Edwards County1
- Franklin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Jefferson County1
- Wabash County1
- Wayne County1
- White County1
- Gallatin County1
- Hardin County1
- Johnson County1
- Massac County1
- Pope County1
- Saline County1
- Williamson 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.