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Tornado Watches in Illinois, 2008

44 tornado watches in 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches: 44
Busiest month: June17 tornado watches
Busiest day: December 27, 20086 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
Jan 7, 1:52 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 20 more	146 days
Jan 7, 2:35 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt and 31 more	6 hr
Jan 7, 7:48 PM CST	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jackson and 12 more	9 hr
Jan 8, 1:26 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Gallatin, Hardin, Massac, Pope	8 hr
Jan 29, 11:32 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Edwards, Fayette and 27 more	7 hr
Feb 5, 3:09 PM CST	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 15 more	9 hr
Mar 18, 5:19 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Gallatin, Hardin, Massac, Pope	11 hr
Mar 31, 1:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison, Monroe and 2 more	6 hr
Apr 10, 3:28 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alexander, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski and 1 more	7 hr
Apr 10, 9:51 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more	7 hr
Apr 10, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Hancock, Henderson, McDonough and 3 more	5 hr
Apr 10, 5:03 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 12 more	6 hr
Apr 25, 3:41 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, DeKalb, Fulton and 34 more	4 hr
May 2, 10:44 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alexander, Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Johnson and 7 more	9 hr
May 25, 7:54 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Hancock, Henderson and 13 more	6 hr
May 30, 1:19 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer, Rock Island, Warren	8 hr
May 30, 7:56 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Brown, Bureau, Cass, Cook, DuPage and 26 more	6 hr
May 30, 1:56 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 37 more	8 hr
Jun 3, 3:31 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 45 more	10 hr
Jun 3, 3:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Hancock, McDonough	7 hr
Jun 3, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 34 more	8 hr
Jun 4, 2:06 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alexander, Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 46 more	5 hr
Jun 4, 7:02 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bureau, Carroll, Champaign, DeKalb, DeWitt, Ford and 29 more	8 hr
Jun 4, 11:56 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Hancock	5 hr
Jun 5, 4:59 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Boone, Carroll, Henry, Jo Daviess, Lee, Mercer and 5 more	6 hr
Jun 5, 9:43 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Brown, Hancock, Pike	7 hr
Jun 6, 12:13 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 47 more	9 hr
Jun 6, 1:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy and 12 more	5 hr
Jun 7, 2:01 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 26 more	6 hr
Jun 7, 7:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Boone, Carroll, Jo Daviess, McHenry, Stephenson, Winnebago	7 hr
Jun 8, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Mercer, Rock Island and 3 more	6 hr
Jun 8, 8:03 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Cass, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt and 28 more	5 hr
Jun 12, 1:04 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 32 more	7 hr
Jun 12, 3:06 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Brown	7 hr
Jun 12, 7:48 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 24 more	6 hr
Jul 19, 7:59 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Carroll, Jo Daviess, Mercer, Rock Island, Stephenson, Whiteside	4 hr
Jul 30, 5:21 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 17 more	5 hr
Sep 13, 1:46 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois and 7 more	6 hr
Dec 27, 1:35 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 26 more	7 hr
Dec 27, 4:30 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette and 11 more	8 hr
Dec 27, 10:58 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 43 more	8 hr
Dec 27, 12:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois and 6 more	4 hr
Dec 27, 12:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison and 6 more	5 hr
Dec 27, 1:52 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more	5 hr

By county

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

62 more counties

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.