Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Illinois, April 2002
8 tornado 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 tornado watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- April 28, 20023 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 18, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Henry, Jo Daviess and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 21, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 34 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 24, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Alexander, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass and 49 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 24, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gallatin, Hardin | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Fulton, Greene and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, Knox, McDonough, Mercer and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 27, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 56 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hardin, Massac, Pope | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alexander County3
- Bond County3
- Christian County3
- Clark County3
- Clay County3
- Clinton County3
- Coles County3
- Crawford County3
- Cumberland County3
- Effingham County3
- Fayette County3
- Franklin County3
- Gallatin County3
- Hamilton County3
- Jackson County3
- Jasper County3
- Jefferson County3
- Johnson County3
- Macoupin County3
- Madison County3
- Marion County3
- Massac County3
- Monroe County3
- Montgomery County3
- Perry County3
- Pope County3
- Pulaski County3
- Randolph County3
- Richland County3
- Saint Clair County3
- Saline County3
- Shelby County3
- Union County3
- Washington County3
- Wayne County3
- Williamson County3
- Hardin County3
- Marshall County2
- Mercer County2
- Rock Island County2
53 more counties
- Stark County2
- Edwards County2
- Lawrence County2
- Wabash County2
- White County2
- Adams County2
- Brown County2
- Calhoun County2
- Cass County2
- Champaign County2
- DeWitt County2
- Douglas County2
- Edgar County2
- Greene County2
- Jersey County2
- Logan County2
- Macon County2
- Mason County2
- Menard County2
- Morgan County2
- Moultrie County2
- Piatt County2
- Pike County2
- Sangamon County2
- Schuyler County2
- Scott County2
- Vermilion County2
- Fulton County2
- Hancock County2
- McDonough County2
- Knox County2
- Boone County1
- Bureau County1
- Carroll County1
- DeKalb County1
- Henry County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lee County1
- Ogle County1
- Putnam County1
- Stephenson County1
- Whiteside County1
- Winnebago County1
- Henderson County1
- Warren County1
- Ford County1
- Iroquois County1
- Livingston County1
- McLean County1
- Peoria County1
- Tazewell 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. Rebuilt daily.