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Tornado Watch 57

March 19, 202550 counties in Illinois; 17 counties in Indiana

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 19, 2025, 12:16 PM CDT for 50 counties in Illinois; 17 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 19, 2025, 12:16 PM CDT (17:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 2025, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 67 counties

Bond County, IL, Bureau County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Clinton County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Ford County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Henry County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Kendall County, IL, Knox County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Marion County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Mason County, IL, McLean County, IL, Menard County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Richland County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Stark County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Warren County, IL, Will County, IL, Woodford County, IL, Benton County, IN, Clay County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Greene County, IN, Knox County, IN, Martin County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Newton County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes: 50%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 30%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 20%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

55 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 19, 12:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Henderson, Mercer, Rock Island, Warren	54 min
Mar 19, 1:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Rock Island	33 min
Mar 19, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton, Schuyler	29 min
Mar 19, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Fulton	30 min
Mar 19, 2:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton	37 min
Mar 19, 2:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton, Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford	29 min
Mar 19, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Mason, Menard	37 min
Mar 19, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Logan, Mason, Menard	37 min
Mar 19, 3:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Tazewell, Woodford	29 min
Mar 19, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Logan, McLean, Mason, Tazewell	41 min
Mar 19, 3:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	McLean, Tazewell	32 min
Mar 19, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	DeWitt, Logan, Mason, Menard, Sangamon	35 min
Mar 19, 3:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	McLean, Tazewell, Woodford	49 min
Mar 19, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean	47 min
Mar 19, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Coles, Cumberland, Effingham, Moultrie, Shelby	41 min
Mar 19, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LOT	Livingston	48 min
Mar 19, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	DeWitt, Logan, Macon, Sangamon	47 min
Mar 19, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Moultrie	52 min
Mar 19, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Grundy, Kendall, LaSalle, Will	51 min
Mar 19, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Clay, Jasper, Richland	40 min
Mar 19, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Clark, Clay, Crawford, Cumberland, Jasper	53 min
Mar 19, 4:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Coles, Douglas, Edgar	31 min
Mar 19, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, Livingston, Will	39 min
Mar 19, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, McLean, Piatt	30 min
Mar 19, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Clark, Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland	44 min
Mar 19, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Cook, DuPage, Will	44 min
Mar 19, 5:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Will	28 min
Mar 19, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Edgar, Vermilion	66 min
Mar 19, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Kankakee	45 min
Mar 19, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Ford, Livingston	43 min
Mar 19, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	McLean	27 min
Mar 19, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Parke, Vermillion, Vigo	50 min
Mar 19, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter	56 min
Mar 19, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Cook, Will	31 min
Mar 19, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Vermillion, Warren	45 min
Mar 19, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Sullivan, Vigo	23 min
Mar 19, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Fayette, Montgomery	23 min
Mar 19, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Ford, Iroquois	35 min
Mar 19, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Iroquois, Kankakee	20 min
Mar 19, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, Shelby	36 min
Mar 19, 5:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	IND	Clay, Parke, Vigo	28 min
Mar 19, 5:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Fountain, Warren	27 min
Mar 19, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Christian, DeWitt, Logan, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt and 1 more	55 min
Mar 19, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IND	Clay, Fountain, Montgomery, Owen, Parke, Putnam and 3 more	39 min
Mar 19, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Tippecanoe	31 min
Mar 19, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Knox, Martin	48 min
Mar 19, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	IND	Boone, Carroll, Clinton, Hendricks, Montgomery, Putnam and 1 more	43 min
Mar 19, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Greene, Jackson, Lawrence, Martin, Monroe	33 min
Mar 19, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Martin	29 min
Mar 19, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Jackson, Lawrence, Martin	45 min
Mar 19, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Hendricks, Montgomery, Putnam	25 min
Mar 19, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Vermilion	16 min
Mar 19, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Crawford	29 min
Mar 19, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Sullivan, Tippecanoe, Vermillion and 2 more	25 min
Mar 19, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Boone, Clinton, Montgomery, Tippecanoe	35 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 35 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1447 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 215 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 242 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 19, 4:37 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Henderson, Mercer, Rock Island	113 min
Mar 19, 9:33 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kendall and 7 more	117 min
Mar 19, 11:21 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Brown, Cass, Christian, DeWitt, Effingham and 24 more	2 hr
Mar 19, 2:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Massac, Pope, Saline and 1 more	2 hr
Mar 19, 3:19 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jefferson, Pope and 4 more	8 hr
Mar 19, 3:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Champaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 21 more	113 min
Mar 19, 4:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Edgar, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland and 1 more	94 min
Mar 19, 5:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Gallatin, Hardin, Pope	2 hr
Mar 19, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 50 more	5 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.