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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 7 more | 8 hr |
| May 19, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Pike | 9 hr |
| May 19, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Fulton, Hancock and 25 more | 6 hr |
| May 20, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 31 more | 7 hr |
| May 20, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Randolph | 6 hr |
| May 20, 10:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Champaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 29 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 12:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun and 57 more | 7 hr |
| May 31, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jersey and 8 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hancock County4
- McDonough County4
- Calhoun County4
- Bureau County3
- Carroll County3
- Henderson County3
- Henry County3
- Jo Daviess County3
- Mercer County3
- Putnam County3
- Rock Island County3
- Stephenson County3
- Warren County3
- Whiteside County3
- Adams County3
- Brown County3
- Pike County3
- Fulton County3
- Knox County3
- Marshall County3
- Mason County3
- Peoria County3
- Schuyler County3
- Stark County3
- Tazewell County3
- Woodford County3
- Bond County3
- Clinton County3
- Fayette County3
- Greene County3
- Jersey County3
- Macoupin County3
- Madison County3
- Marion County3
- Monroe County3
- Montgomery County3
- Saint Clair County3
- Washington County3
- Randolph County3
- Boone County2
54 more counties
- DeKalb County2
- LaSalle County2
- Lee County2
- Ogle County2
- Winnebago County2
- Cass County2
- Christian County2
- DeWitt County2
- Logan County2
- McLean County2
- Macon County2
- Menard County2
- Morgan County2
- Sangamon County2
- Scott County2
- Franklin County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Moultrie County2
- Perry County2
- Piatt County2
- Shelby County2
- Kane County1
- Kendall County1
- McHenry County1
- Alexander County1
- Champaign County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Coles County1
- Crawford County1
- Cumberland County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Edwards County1
- Effingham County1
- Gallatin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Jasper County1
- Johnson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Massac County1
- Pope County1
- Pulaski County1
- Richland County1
- Saline County1
- Union County1
- Vermilion County1
- Wabash County1
- Wayne County1
- White County1
- Williamson County1
- Livingston County1
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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.