Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Illinois, May 2008
5 tornado watches in May 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 30, 20083 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, 10:44 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Johnson and 7 more | 9 hr |
| May 25, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Hancock, Henderson and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 1:19 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer, Rock Island, Warren | 8 hr |
| May 30, 7:56 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Cass, Cook, DuPage and 26 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 37 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hancock County3
- Henderson County3
- McDonough County3
- Mercer County3
- Rock Island County3
- Warren County3
- Bureau County2
- Henry County2
- LaSalle County2
- Putnam County2
- Adams County2
- Brown County2
- Cass County2
- Livingston County2
- Logan County2
- McLean County2
- Mason County2
- Menard County2
- Schuyler County2
- Tazewell County2
- Alexander County1
- Edwards County1
- Gallatin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Johnson County1
- Massac County1
- Pope County1
- Pulaski County1
- Saline County1
- Wabash County1
- Wayne County1
- White County1
- Boone County1
- Carroll County1
- DeKalb County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Lee County1
- Ogle County1
- Stephenson County1
47 more counties
- Whiteside County1
- Winnebago County1
- Cook County1
- DuPage County1
- Fulton County1
- Grundy County1
- Kankakee County1
- Kendall County1
- Knox County1
- Marshall County1
- Peoria County1
- Stark County1
- Will County1
- Woodford County1
- Bond County1
- Calhoun County1
- Champaign County1
- Christian County1
- Clark County1
- Clinton County1
- Coles County1
- Cumberland County1
- DeWitt County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Effingham County1
- Fayette County1
- Ford County1
- Greene County1
- Iroquois County1
- Jersey County1
- Macon County1
- Macoupin County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Moultrie County1
- Piatt County1
- Pike County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Sangamon County1
- Scott County1
- Shelby County1
- Vermilion County1
- Washington 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.