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Tornado Watches in Illinois, 2016
8 tornado watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest month
- September2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- February 2, 20161 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 12:22 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 15, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 40 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 27, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Pike | 7 hr |
| May 10, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gallatin, Hardin, Massac, Pope, Saline | 6 hr |
| Jun 22, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Champaign, Cook, DeKalb and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 3, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 12 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 9, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 19 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 19, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jo Daviess, Rock Island | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Gallatin County3
- Hardin County3
- Massac County3
- Pope County3
- Saline County3
- Jo Daviess County3
- Rock Island County3
- Alexander County2
- Johnson County2
- Pulaski County2
- Union County2
- Williamson County2
- Adams County2
- Brown County2
- Bureau County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Henry County2
- Knox County2
- LaSalle County2
- Lee County2
- Livingston County2
- McLean County2
- Marshall County2
- Mercer County2
- Ogle County2
- Peoria County2
- Piatt County2
- Pike County2
- Putnam County2
- Stark County2
- Stephenson County2
- Tazewell County2
- Whiteside County2
- Winnebago County2
- Woodford County2
- Champaign County2
- Vermilion County2
- Edwards County2
- Lawrence County2
55 more counties
- Richland County2
- Wabash County2
- Wayne County2
- Jackson County1
- Cass County1
- Christian County1
- DeWitt County1
- Fulton County1
- Greene County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Jersey County1
- Logan County1
- McDonough County1
- Macon County1
- Macoupin County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Sangamon County1
- Schuyler County1
- Scott County1
- Warren County1
- Boone County1
- Cook County1
- DeKalb County1
- DuPage County1
- Ford County1
- Grundy County1
- Iroquois County1
- Kane County1
- Kankakee County1
- Kendall County1
- Will County1
- Franklin County1
- Hamilton County1
- White County1
- Bond County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Coles County1
- Crawford County1
- Cumberland County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Effingham County1
- Fayette County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Marion County1
- Moultrie County1
- Shelby County1
- Washington County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.