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Tornado Watches in Illinois, 2002

22 tornado watches in 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 tornado watches reaches back to 1997.

Tornado Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2002. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
22
Busiest month
April8 tornado watches
Busiest day
November 10, 20024 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 11:00 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCClay, Crawford, Edwards, Effingham, Fayette, Franklin and 18 more5 hr
Mar 29, 3:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Johnson and 8 more5 hr
Apr 18, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Henry, Jo Daviess and 11 more5 hr
Apr 21, 2:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Bond, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 34 more4 hr
Apr 24, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Alexander, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass and 49 more6 hr
Apr 24, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCGallatin, Hardin5 hr
Apr 27, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Fulton, Greene and 8 more6 hr
Apr 27, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFulton, Hancock, Henderson, Knox, McDonough, Mercer and 2 more4 hr
Apr 27, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 56 more5 hr
Apr 28, 2:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCHardin, Massac, Pope5 hr
May 1, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 39 more4 hr
May 1, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBond, Clinton, Madison, Monroe, Randolph, Saint Clair and 1 more4 hr
May 1, 10:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Clay, Crawford, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin and 21 more6 hr
Jun 11, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCalhoun, Greene, Jersey, Monroe, Pike, Scott6 hr
Nov 9, 6:20 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski and 1 more6 hr
Nov 9, 11:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCEdwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Johnson, Massac and 6 more5 hr
Nov 10, 11:10 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCClark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 27 more6 hr
Nov 10, 3:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Massac, Pulaski6 hr
Dec 17, 10:40 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCalhoun, Cass, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison and 7 more5 hr
Dec 18, 3:30 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCCalhoun, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison, Monroe and 3 more5 hr
Dec 18, 9:30 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams6 hr
Dec 18, 4:35 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCalhoun, Cass, Christian, DeWitt, Greene, Jersey and 8 more5 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

53 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. November 10, 20024tornado watches
  2. December 18, 20024tornado watches
  3. April 28, 20023tornado watches
  4. March 29, 20022tornado watches
  5. April 24, 20022tornado watches
  6. May 2, 20022tornado watches
  7. April 18, 20021tornado watches
  8. April 21, 20021tornado watches
  9. April 27, 20021tornado watches
  10. May 1, 20021tornado watches
  11. June 11, 20021tornado watches

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.