Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, April 2002
11 severe thunderstorm watches in April 2002. 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 severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- April 19, 20025 severe thunderstorm 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 18, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carroll, Jo Daviess, Rock Island, Stephenson | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Christian, Clinton, Fayette, Greene and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Christian, Clay, Clinton, DeWitt and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 21, 5:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jackson and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 21, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clay, Clinton, Crawford and 30 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 21, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Hardin | 5 hr |
| Apr 21, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Pope | 5 hr |
| Apr 24, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 30 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 24, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy and 17 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bond County6
- Clinton County6
- Madison County6
- Monroe County6
- Randolph County6
- Saint Clair County6
- Calhoun County5
- Fayette County5
- Jersey County5
- Montgomery County5
- Perry County5
- Washington County5
- Greene County4
- Jefferson County4
- Macoupin County4
- Marion County4
- Jackson County4
- Johnson County4
- Christian County3
- Pike County3
- Franklin County3
- Union County3
- Williamson County3
- Gallatin County3
- Hardin County3
- Pope County3
- Shelby County2
- Alexander County2
- Edwards County2
- Hamilton County2
- Lawrence County2
- Massac County2
- Pulaski County2
- Richland County2
- Saline County2
- Wabash County2
- Wayne County2
- White County2
- Clay County2
- DeWitt County2
51 more counties
- Effingham County2
- Logan County2
- Macon County2
- Menard County2
- Morgan County2
- Piatt County2
- Sangamon County2
- Scott County2
- McLean County2
- Tazewell County2
- Carroll County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Rock Island County1
- Stephenson County1
- Moultrie County1
- Crawford County1
- Jasper County1
- Adams County1
- Brown County1
- Cass County1
- Fulton County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Knox County1
- McDonough County1
- Mason County1
- Mercer County1
- Peoria County1
- Schuyler County1
- Warren County1
- Boone County1
- Cook County1
- DeKalb County1
- DuPage County1
- Ford County1
- Grundy County1
- Iroquois County1
- Kane County1
- Kankakee County1
- Kendall County1
- Lake County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lee County1
- Livingston County1
- McHenry County1
- Marshall County1
- Ogle County1
- Putnam County1
- Will County1
- Winnebago County1
- Woodford 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.