Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2013
Tornado Watches in Illinois, April 2013
8 tornado watches in April 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 April 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- April 18, 20134 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 10, 1:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Clinton, Edwards, Fayette, Franklin and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 10, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 34 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 17, 11:11 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin and 1 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 17, 3:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas and 24 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 17, 9:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Pike | 7 hr |
| Apr 18, 5:42 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 18, 8:31 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 18, 9:25 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alexander County3
- Bond County3
- Clinton County3
- Edwards County3
- Fayette County3
- Franklin County3
- Hamilton County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Madison County3
- Marion County3
- Monroe County3
- Montgomery County3
- Perry County3
- Randolph County3
- Saint Clair County3
- Saline County3
- Union County3
- Wabash County3
- Washington County3
- Wayne County3
- White County3
- Williamson County3
- Macoupin County3
- Christian County2
- Clark County2
- Clay County2
- Crawford County2
- Cumberland County2
- Effingham County2
- Gallatin County2
- Hardin County2
- Jasper County2
- Johnson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Massac County2
- Pope County2
- Pulaski County2
- Richland County2
- Shelby County2
34 more counties
- Adams County2
- Brown County2
- Jersey County2
- Pike County2
- Coles County2
- Douglas County2
- Edgar County2
- Vermilion County2
- Calhoun County1
- Greene County1
- Cass County1
- Champaign County1
- DeWitt County1
- Ford County1
- Fulton County1
- Iroquois County1
- Knox County1
- Livingston County1
- Logan County1
- McLean County1
- Macon County1
- Marshall County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Morgan County1
- Moultrie County1
- Peoria County1
- Piatt County1
- Sangamon County1
- Schuyler County1
- Scott County1
- Stark County1
- Tazewell County1
- Woodford County1
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.