Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2010
Tornado Watches in Illinois, May 2010
3 tornado watches in May 2010. 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 2010. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 1, 20101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 9:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 47 more | 6 hr |
| May 1, 10:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 43 more | 7 hr |
| May 7, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 6 more | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clark County3
- Clay County3
- Coles County3
- Crawford County3
- Cumberland County3
- Douglas County3
- Edgar County3
- Effingham County3
- Jasper County3
- Lawrence County3
- Richland County3
- Vermilion County3
- Alexander County2
- Bond County2
- Champaign County2
- Christian County2
- Clinton County2
- DeWitt County2
- Edwards County2
- Fayette County2
- Franklin County2
- Gallatin County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Macon County2
- Macoupin County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Massac County2
- Monroe County2
- Montgomery County2
- Moultrie County2
- Perry County2
- Piatt County2
- Pope County2
- Pulaski County2
- Randolph County2
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.