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Tornado Watches in Illinois, 2005
14 tornado watches in 2005. 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 2005. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 14
- Busiest month
- November8 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 30, 20053 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 11:05 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bureau, Carroll, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, Henry and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:55 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Boone, Bureau, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 49 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Henry, Jo Daviess and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 34 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 4, 11:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Lake, McHenry, Winnebago | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Henderson, Mercer, Rock Island, Warren | 8 hr |
| Nov 5, 3:50 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Fulton, Greene and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 6, 2:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gallatin, Hardin, Massac, Pope | 4 hr |
| Nov 8, 6:10 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bureau, Ford, Grundy, Henry, Iroquois, Kankakee and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 14, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 15, 7:42 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more | 9 hr |
| Nov 15, 10:13 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 41 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 27, 8:28 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Madison, Monroe, Randolph and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 27, 11:26 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 37 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bureau County5
- Winnebago County5
- Macoupin County5
- Sangamon County5
- Henry County4
- Knox County4
- Lee County4
- Mason County4
- Mercer County4
- Ogle County4
- Peoria County4
- Rock Island County4
- Warren County4
- Whiteside County4
- Christian County4
- Menard County4
- Montgomery County4
- Calhoun County4
- Greene County4
- Jersey County4
- Morgan County4
- Scott County4
- Gallatin County4
- Hardin County4
- Massac County4
- Pope County4
- Carroll County3
- Fulton County3
- Hancock County3
- Henderson County3
- Jo Daviess County3
- McDonough County3
- Schuyler County3
- Stark County3
- Stephenson County3
- Bond County3
- Boone County3
- Clark County3
- Clay County3
- Clinton County3
62 more counties
- Coles County3
- Crawford County3
- Cumberland County3
- Douglas County3
- Edgar County3
- Effingham County3
- Fayette County3
- Jasper County3
- Lawrence County3
- Logan County3
- McHenry County3
- Madison County3
- Marion County3
- Marshall County3
- Moultrie County3
- Putnam County3
- Richland County3
- Shelby County3
- Tazewell County3
- Woodford County3
- Alexander County3
- Franklin County3
- Hamilton County3
- Jackson County3
- Johnson County3
- Pulaski County3
- Saline County3
- Union County3
- White County3
- Williamson County3
- Champaign County2
- DeKalb County2
- DeWitt County2
- Ford County2
- Grundy County2
- Iroquois County2
- Kane County2
- Kankakee County2
- Lake County2
- LaSalle County2
- Livingston County2
- McLean County2
- Macon County2
- Piatt County2
- Vermilion County2
- Will County2
- Adams County2
- Brown County2
- Cass County2
- Pike County2
- Edwards County2
- Jefferson County2
- Monroe County2
- Perry County2
- Randolph County2
- Saint Clair County2
- Wabash County2
- Washington County2
- Wayne County2
- Cook County1
- DuPage County1
- Kendall County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.