Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2015

Tornado Watches in Illinois, April 2015

7 tornado watches in April 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
7
Busiest day
April 9, 20154 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 3, 12:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCGallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski and 1 more8 hr
Apr 8, 4:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCEdwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 13 more4 hr
Apr 9, 12:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry and 8 more6 hr
Apr 9, 1:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Cook and 36 more9 hr
Apr 9, 4:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jersey and 8 more6 hr
Apr 9, 6:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 26 more6 hr
Apr 25, 12:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clay, Clinton, Edwards and 30 more7 hr

By county

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

62 more counties

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.