Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2024
Tornado Watches in Illinois, May 2024
13 tornado watches in May 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest day
- May 8, 20244 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 7, 12:53 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 33 more | 7 hr |
| May 7, 1:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles and 34 more | 12 hr |
| May 7, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 1:57 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Massac, Pope, Pulaski | 4 hr |
| May 8, 10:29 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Jefferson and 12 more | 8 hr |
| May 8, 1:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hamilton, White | 10 hr |
| May 8, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 15 more | 9 hr |
| May 21, 1:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Mercer, Rock Island and 2 more | 8 hr |
| May 21, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Fulton, Greene and 9 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, DeKalb, Kane, Kendall, LaSalle and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 2:35 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 14 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Franklin, Hamilton and 16 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Crawford, Edwards, Effingham, Gallatin, Hardin and 6 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alexander County6
- Massac County6
- Pope County6
- Pulaski County6
- Randolph County5
- Franklin County5
- Gallatin County5
- Hamilton County5
- Hardin County5
- Jefferson County5
- Johnson County5
- Saline County5
- Union County5
- White County5
- Williamson County5
- Monroe County4
- Edwards County4
- Wabash County4
- Wayne County4
- Jackson County4
- Perry County4
- Saint Clair County3
- Washington County3
- Adams County2
- Bond County2
- Brown County2
- Calhoun County2
- Cass County2
- Christian County2
- Clinton County2
- DeWitt County2
- Fayette County2
- Fulton County2
- Greene County2
- Jersey County2
- Knox County2
- Logan County2
- McLean County2
- Macon County2
- Madison County2
62 more counties
- Marion County2
- Mason County2
- Morgan County2
- Moultrie County2
- Piatt County2
- Pike County2
- Sangamon County2
- Schuyler County2
- Scott County2
- Shelby County2
- Boone County2
- Clay County2
- Crawford County2
- DeKalb County2
- Effingham County2
- Jasper County2
- Kane County2
- Kendall County2
- LaSalle County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lee County2
- McHenry County2
- Ogle County2
- Richland County2
- Winnebago County2
- Macoupin County1
- Marshall County1
- Menard County1
- Montgomery County1
- Peoria County1
- Stark County1
- Tazewell County1
- Woodford County1
- Champaign County1
- Clark County1
- Coles County1
- Cook County1
- Cumberland County1
- Douglas County1
- DuPage County1
- Edgar County1
- Ford County1
- Grundy County1
- Iroquois County1
- Kankakee County1
- Lake County1
- Livingston County1
- Vermilion County1
- Will County1
- Carroll County1
- Henderson County1
- Henry County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Mercer County1
- Rock Island County1
- Warren County1
- Whiteside County1
- Hancock County1
- McDonough County1
- Bureau County1
- Putnam County1
- Stephenson 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.