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Tornado Watches in Illinois, 2019
15 tornado watches in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 15
- Busiest month
- May8 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 14, 20192 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 9:47 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gallatin, Hardin, Massac, Pope, Wabash | 6 hr |
| Mar 14, 12:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Champaign, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt, DuPage and 14 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 30, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Jackson, Jefferson, Madison and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 21, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Franklin and 16 more | 8 hr |
| May 21, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Clay, Coles, Cumberland, Effingham, Franklin and 11 more | 3 hr |
| May 22, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Cass, Fulton, Hancock and 18 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 45 more | 8 hr |
| May 24, 12:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Champaign, DeWitt, Ford, Fulton, Iroquois and 15 more | 4 hr |
| May 24, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bureau, Carroll, Fulton, Grundy, Hancock, Henderson and 24 more | 4 hr |
| May 27, 1:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bureau, Carroll, Champaign, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt and 33 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 12, 8:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 31 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 27, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Cass, DeWitt, Ford and 23 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 21, 3:06 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Clinton, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 26, 10:22 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 27 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- DeWitt County6
- Livingston County6
- McLean County6
- Marion County6
- Cass County6
- Mason County6
- Menard County6
- Schuyler County6
- Tazewell County6
- Woodford County6
- Logan County6
- Champaign County5
- Ford County5
- Piatt County5
- Vermilion County5
- Bond County5
- Clinton County5
- Fayette County5
- Jackson County5
- Jefferson County5
- Madison County5
- Monroe County5
- Perry County5
- Randolph County5
- Saint Clair County5
- Washington County5
- Pike County5
- Clay County5
- Effingham County5
- Brown County5
- Fulton County5
- Knox County5
- Marshall County5
- Peoria County5
- Stark County5
- Grundy County4
- Iroquois County4
- LaSalle County4
- Calhoun County4
- Franklin County4
60 more counties
- Greene County4
- Jersey County4
- Macoupin County4
- Montgomery County4
- Coles County4
- Cumberland County4
- Jasper County4
- Richland County4
- Shelby County4
- Bureau County4
- Hancock County4
- Henderson County4
- Henry County4
- McDonough County4
- Mercer County4
- Morgan County4
- Putnam County4
- Scott County4
- Warren County4
- Kankakee County3
- Will County3
- Alexander County3
- Union County3
- Williamson County3
- Moultrie County3
- Wayne County3
- Adams County3
- Christian County3
- Clark County3
- Crawford County3
- Douglas County3
- Edgar County3
- Lawrence County3
- Macon County3
- Sangamon County3
- Rock Island County3
- Whiteside County3
- Massac County2
- Wabash County2
- Cook County2
- DeKalb County2
- DuPage County2
- Kane County2
- Kendall County2
- Hamilton County2
- Carroll County2
- Lee County2
- Ogle County2
- Gallatin County1
- Hardin County1
- Pope County1
- Boone County1
- Lake County1
- McHenry County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Stephenson County1
- Winnebago County1
- Edwards County1
- Johnson County1
- Pulaski County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.