Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2020
Tornado Watches in Illinois, July 2020
3 tornado watches in July 2020. 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 July 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- July 15, 20203 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 2:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian, Clinton and 30 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 15, 3:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, Livingston | 6 hr |
| Jul 15, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 20 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bond County1
- Brown County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cass County1
- Christian County1
- Clinton County1
- DeWitt County1
- Effingham County1
- Fayette County1
- Fulton County1
- Greene County1
- Jersey County1
- Logan County1
- McLean County1
- Macon County1
- Macoupin County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Moultrie County1
- Peoria County1
- Piatt County1
- Pike County1
- Randolph County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Sangamon County1
- Schuyler County1
- Scott County1
- Shelby County1
- Tazewell County1
- Washington County1
- Woodford County1
- Ford County1
- Grundy County1
- Iroquois County1
- Kankakee County1
27 more counties
- Livingston County1
- Champaign County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Coles County1
- Crawford County1
- Cumberland County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Edwards County1
- Franklin County1
- Gallatin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Jackson County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Perry County1
- Richland County1
- Saline County1
- Union County1
- Vermilion County1
- Wabash County1
- Wayne County1
- White County1
- Williamson 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.