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Tornado Watches in Illinois, 2014

20 tornado watches in 2014. 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
20
Busiest month
June7 tornado watches
Busiest day
June 30, 20143 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
Feb 20, 2:23 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more7 hr
Feb 20, 4:45 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCChampaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 12 more3 hr
Apr 3, 12:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 10 more4 hr
Apr 3, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMonroe, Randolph, Saint Clair7 hr
Apr 3, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 9 more7 hr
Apr 27, 7:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more6 hr
Apr 28, 1:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 39 more7 hr
May 11, 11:53 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCarroll, Henderson, Henry, Mercer, Rock Island, Warren and 1 more7 hr
Jun 4, 2:21 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Clay, Clinton, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin and 22 more6 hr
Jun 4, 7:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 9 more8 hr
Jun 7, 4:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Bond, Christian, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland and 37 more7 hr
Jun 17, 4:11 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 16 more3 hr
Jun 29, 10:54 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Carroll, DeKalb, Jo Daviess, Kane, Lee and 5 more5 hr
Jun 30, 2:03 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Fulton, Hancock and 22 more5 hr
Jun 30, 5:29 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Pike6 hr
Jul 12, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 7 more6 hr
Jul 12, 9:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Fulton and 21 more3 hr
Oct 2, 5:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski8 hr
Oct 13, 10:29 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Bond, Clinton, Edwards, Fayette, Franklin and 26 more8 hr
Oct 13, 2:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChampaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 22 more7 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. June 30, 20143tornado watches
  2. February 20, 20142tornado watches
  3. April 3, 20142tornado watches
  4. April 28, 20142tornado watches
  5. October 13, 20142tornado watches
  6. April 4, 20141tornado watches
  7. May 11, 20141tornado watches
  8. June 4, 20141tornado watches
  9. June 5, 20141tornado watches
  10. June 7, 20141tornado watches
  11. June 17, 20141tornado watches
  12. July 12, 20141tornado 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.