Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2000
Tornado Watches in Illinois, April 2000
4 tornado watches in April 2000. 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 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- April 20, 20002 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 7, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Clay, Crawford, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 19, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Greene, Jersey and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, Fulton, Hancock, McDonough and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 20, 10:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 30 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County2
- Crawford County2
- Edwards County2
- Franklin County2
- Hamilton County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Marion County2
- Richland County2
- Wabash County2
- Wayne County2
- White County2
- Adams County2
- Brown County2
- Cass County2
- Pike County2
- Scott County2
- Alexander County1
- Gallatin County1
- Hardin County1
- Johnson County1
- Massac County1
- Pope County1
- Pulaski County1
- Saline County1
- Union County1
- Williamson County1
- Calhoun County1
- Greene County1
- Jersey County1
- Macoupin County1
- Menard County1
- Morgan County1
- Sangamon County1
- Fulton County1
- Hancock County1
- McDonough County1
- Schuyler County1
- Bond County1
- Champaign County1
22 more counties
- Clark County1
- Clinton County1
- Coles County1
- Cumberland County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Effingham County1
- Fayette County1
- Ford County1
- Iroquois County1
- Jasper County1
- Kankakee County1
- Livingston County1
- Macon County1
- Moultrie County1
- Perry County1
- Piatt County1
- Randolph County1
- Shelby County1
- Vermilion County1
- Washington County1
- Will 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. Rebuilt daily.