Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Illinois, April 1997
4 tornado watches in April 1997. 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 April 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- April 30, 19974 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, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, DeKalb and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Champaign, Cook, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar and 6 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Piatt County2
- Clark County2
- Coles County2
- Crawford County2
- Cumberland County2
- Douglas County2
- Edgar County2
- Jasper County2
- Lawrence County2
- Richland County2
- Adams County1
- Brown County1
- Bureau County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- DeKalb County1
- DeWitt County1
- Fulton County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Henry County1
- Knox County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lee County1
- Logan County1
- McDonough County1
- McLean County1
- Marshall County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Mercer County1
- Morgan County1
- Ogle County1
- Peoria County1
- Pike County1
- Putnam County1
- Rock Island County1
- Schuyler County1
- Stark County1
- Tazewell County1
36 more counties
- Warren County1
- Whiteside County1
- Woodford County1
- Bond County1
- Christian County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Effingham County1
- Fayette County1
- Jefferson County1
- Macon County1
- Macoupin County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Montgomery County1
- Moultrie County1
- Sangamon County1
- Shelby County1
- Washington County1
- Wayne County1
- Champaign County1
- Cook County1
- DuPage County1
- Ford County1
- Grundy County1
- Iroquois County1
- Kane County1
- Kankakee County1
- Kendall County1
- Lake County1
- Livingston County1
- Vermilion County1
- Will County1
- Edwards County1
- Wabash County1
- White County1
Nearby
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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.