Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2006
Tornado Watches in Illinois, April 2006
15 tornado watches in April 2006. 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 2006. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 15
- Busiest day
- April 2, 20065 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 2, 12:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Pike and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass and 35 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 2, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 41 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 2, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford and 16 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 2, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 6, 11:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 10:20 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 17 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 7, 12:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 14, 1:58 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 21 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 14, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 57 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 16, 11:17 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass and 44 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 16, 1:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 18, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Jackson, Madison, Monroe, Perry, Pulaski and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 1:29 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jefferson and 8 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 30, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Clinton, Franklin, Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson and 12 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alexander County6
- Union County6
- Christian County5
- Clinton County5
- Jackson County5
- Logan County5
- Madison County5
- Menard County5
- Monroe County5
- Morgan County5
- Perry County5
- Putnam County5
- Randolph County5
- Saint Clair County5
- Sangamon County5
- Scott County5
- Washington County5
- DeWitt County5
- Johnson County5
- Macon County5
- Pulaski County5
- Champaign County5
- Clark County5
- Clay County5
- Coles County5
- Crawford County5
- Cumberland County5
- Douglas County5
- Edgar County5
- Effingham County5
- Jasper County5
- Lawrence County5
- Massac County5
- Moultrie County5
- Piatt County5
- Pope County5
- Richland County5
- Shelby County5
- Vermilion County5
- Henderson County4
62 more counties
- McDonough County4
- Warren County4
- Bond County4
- Bureau County4
- Cass County4
- Fulton County4
- Greene County4
- Henry County4
- Jersey County4
- Knox County4
- Macoupin County4
- Marshall County4
- Mason County4
- Mercer County4
- Montgomery County4
- Peoria County4
- Schuyler County4
- Stark County4
- Tazewell County4
- Woodford County4
- Franklin County4
- Jefferson County4
- McLean County4
- Marion County4
- Williamson County4
- Ford County4
- Grundy County4
- Iroquois County4
- Kankakee County4
- LaSalle County4
- Livingston County4
- Hamilton County4
- Hardin County4
- Saline County4
- Wayne County4
- Brown County3
- Hancock County3
- Pike County3
- Calhoun County3
- Fayette County3
- Kendall County3
- Whiteside County3
- Edwards County3
- Gallatin County3
- Wabash County3
- White County3
- Adams County2
- Rock Island County2
- Boone County2
- Carroll County2
- Cook County2
- DeKalb County2
- DuPage County2
- Kane County2
- Lake County2
- Lee County2
- McHenry County2
- Ogle County2
- Will County2
- Winnebago County2
- Jo Daviess County1
- Stephenson 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.