Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Illinois, May 2012
2 tornado watches in May 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- May 3, 20121 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 3, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bureau, Cass, Champaign, DeWitt, Ford, Fulton and 26 more | 8 hr |
| May 3, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Pike, Rock Island | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bureau County1
- Cass County1
- Champaign County1
- DeWitt County1
- Ford County1
- Fulton County1
- Grundy County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Henry County1
- Knox County1
- LaSalle County1
- Livingston County1
- Logan County1
- McDonough County1
- McLean County1
- Macon County1
- Marshall County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Mercer County1
- Morgan County1
- Peoria County1
- Piatt County1
- Putnam County1
- Sangamon County1
- Schuyler County1
- Scott County1
- Stark County1
- Tazewell County1
- Warren County1
- Woodford County1
- Adams County1
- Brown County1
- Pike County1
- Rock Island 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.