Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2004

Tornado Watches in Illinois, July 2004

6 tornado watches in July 2004. 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 July 2004. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
6
Busiest day
July 5, 20042 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 12:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChampaign, Clark, Coles, Crawford, Douglas, Edgar and 8 more6 hr
Jul 5, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Fulton, Greene and 15 more6 hr
Jul 5, 4:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBureau, Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Knox and 9 more6 hr
Jul 13, 10:55 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Ford, Fulton and 27 more6 hr
Jul 13, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles and 23 more7 hr
Jul 19, 1:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCarroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Knox, Mercer and 5 more5 hr

By county

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

33 more counties

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.