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Tornado Watches in Illinois, 2013

27 tornado watches in 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
27
Busiest month
April8 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 18, 20134 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 29, 12:35 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin and 5 more7 hr
Jan 29, 7:13 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 14 more6 hr
Jan 29, 9:35 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCClark, Clay, Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland6 hr
Apr 10, 1:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Bond, Clinton, Edwards, Fayette, Franklin and 17 more7 hr
Apr 10, 8:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Bond, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 34 more7 hr
Apr 17, 11:11 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin and 1 more11 hr
Apr 17, 3:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas and 24 more8 hr
Apr 17, 9:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Pike7 hr
Apr 18, 5:42 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBond, Clinton, Fayette, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison and 6 more8 hr
Apr 18, 8:31 AM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCClark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 6 more7 hr
Apr 18, 9:25 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more8 hr
May 19, 2:59 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 7 more8 hr
May 19, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Calhoun, Pike9 hr
May 19, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Fulton, Hancock and 25 more6 hr
May 20, 5:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 31 more7 hr
May 20, 7:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCRandolph6 hr
May 20, 10:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Champaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 29 more6 hr
May 30, 12:32 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Bond, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun and 57 more7 hr
May 31, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jersey and 8 more4 hr
May 31, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChampaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 12 more6 hr
May 31, 9:37 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Clinton, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton and 19 more6 hr
May 31, 10:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFord, Iroquois5 hr
Jun 12, 1:49 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Grundy, Henry and 13 more9 hr
Oct 5, 8:42 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 8 more5 hr
Oct 31, 5:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Cumberland and 25 more6 hr
Nov 17, 8:40 AM CSTTornado Watch PDSSPCAdams, Bond, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun and 77 more7 hr
Nov 17, 10:43 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more8 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.

  1. April 18, 20134tornado watches
  2. June 1, 20133tornado watches
  3. January 30, 20132tornado watches
  4. April 17, 20132tornado watches
  5. May 19, 20132tornado watches
  6. May 20, 20132tornado watches
  7. May 21, 20132tornado watches
  8. November 17, 20132tornado watches
  9. January 29, 20131tornado watches
  10. April 10, 20131tornado watches
  11. April 11, 20131tornado watches
  12. May 30, 20131tornado watches

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.