Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2013

Tornado Watches in Illinois, May 2013

8 tornado watches in May 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
8
Busiest day
May 19, 20132 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 2:59 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 7 more8 hr
May 19, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Calhoun, Pike9 hr
May 19, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Fulton, Hancock and 25 more6 hr
May 20, 5:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 31 more7 hr
May 20, 7:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCRandolph6 hr
May 20, 10:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Champaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 29 more6 hr
May 30, 12:32 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Bond, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun and 57 more7 hr
May 31, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jersey and 8 more4 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

54 more counties

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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.