Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2019
Tornado Watches in Illinois, May 2019
8 tornado watches in May 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 22, 20192 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, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Jackson, Jefferson, Madison and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 21, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Franklin and 16 more | 8 hr |
| May 21, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Clay, Coles, Cumberland, Effingham, Franklin and 11 more | 3 hr |
| May 22, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Cass, Fulton, Hancock and 18 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 45 more | 8 hr |
| May 24, 12:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Champaign, DeWitt, Ford, Fulton, Iroquois and 15 more | 4 hr |
| May 24, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bureau, Carroll, Fulton, Grundy, Hancock, Henderson and 24 more | 4 hr |
| May 27, 1:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bureau, Carroll, Champaign, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt and 33 more | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Mason County5
- Tazewell County5
- Woodford County5
- Fulton County4
- Knox County4
- Marshall County4
- Peoria County4
- Stark County4
- Livingston County4
- Logan County4
- McLean County4
- Bond County3
- Clinton County3
- Fayette County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Madison County3
- Marion County3
- Monroe County3
- Perry County3
- Randolph County3
- Saint Clair County3
- Washington County3
- Pike County3
- Bureau County3
- Cass County3
- Hancock County3
- Henderson County3
- Henry County3
- McDonough County3
- Menard County3
- Mercer County3
- Putnam County3
- Schuyler County3
- Warren County3
- Champaign County3
- DeWitt County3
- Ford County3
- Grundy County3
- Iroquois County3
49 more counties
- Piatt County3
- Vermilion County3
- Alexander County2
- Calhoun County2
- Franklin County2
- Greene County2
- Jersey County2
- Macoupin County2
- Montgomery County2
- Union County2
- Williamson County2
- Clay County2
- Coles County2
- Cumberland County2
- Effingham County2
- Jasper County2
- Moultrie County2
- Richland County2
- Shelby County2
- Brown County2
- Morgan County2
- Scott County2
- Kankakee County2
- Macon County2
- Will County2
- Carroll County2
- LaSalle County2
- Lee County2
- Ogle County2
- Rock Island County2
- Whiteside County2
- Hamilton County1
- Wayne County1
- Adams County1
- Christian County1
- Clark County1
- Crawford County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Lawrence County1
- Sangamon County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Stephenson County1
- Winnebago County1
- Cook County1
- DeKalb County1
- DuPage County1
- Kane County1
- Kendall 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.