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Tornado Watches in Illinois, 2001
12 tornado watches in 2001. 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 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest month
- April4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 11, 20013 tornado watches
Over time
By month
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 8, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jo Daviess | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Henderson | 5 hr |
| Apr 11, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Fulton, Greene and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bureau, Carroll, Ford, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hancock | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Knox, Mercer and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 3, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Hancock | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Champaign, Christian, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar, Ford and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 24, 11:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 46 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 24, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 24, 2:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 24, 7:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gallatin, Hardin, Pope, Saline | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jo Daviess County3
- Henderson County3
- Hancock County3
- Ford County3
- Livingston County3
- Gallatin County3
- Saline County3
- Hardin County3
- Pope County3
- Adams County2
- Brown County2
- Jersey County2
- Macoupin County2
- Madison County2
- Morgan County2
- Saint Clair County2
- Carroll County2
- Henry County2
- Knox County2
- Mercer County2
- Peoria County2
- Rock Island County2
- Stark County2
- Stephenson County2
- Warren County2
- Whiteside County2
- Champaign County2
- Christian County2
- DeWitt County2
- Douglas County2
- Edgar County2
- Iroquois County2
- Kankakee County2
- Logan County2
- McLean County2
- Macon County2
- Moultrie County2
- Piatt County2
- Sangamon County2
- Vermilion County2
52 more counties
- Franklin County2
- Hamilton County2
- Jackson County2
- Perry County2
- Randolph County2
- White County2
- Williamson County2
- Alexander County2
- Johnson County2
- Massac County2
- Pulaski County2
- Union County2
- Calhoun County1
- Cass County1
- Fulton County1
- Greene County1
- McDonough County1
- Pike County1
- Schuyler County1
- Scott County1
- Bureau County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lee County1
- Marshall County1
- Ogle County1
- Putnam County1
- Tazewell County1
- Woodford County1
- Menard County1
- Bond County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Coles County1
- Crawford County1
- Cumberland County1
- Edwards County1
- Effingham County1
- Fayette County1
- Grundy County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Richland County1
- Shelby County1
- Wabash County1
- Washington County1
- Wayne County1
- Will County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20002002
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.