Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2020
Tornado Watches in Illinois, March 2020
8 tornado watches in March 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 March 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- March 12, 20202 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 5:21 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 12, 11:44 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 12, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Jackson, Johnson, Massac, Pulaski, Union | 7 hr |
| Mar 19, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 19, 9:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Johnson and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 44 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Crawford and 30 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 28, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, DeKalb, DeWitt and 27 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alexander County6
- Johnson County6
- Massac County6
- Pulaski County6
- Union County6
- Gallatin County5
- Hardin County5
- Pope County5
- Saline County5
- Williamson County5
- Franklin County4
- Hamilton County4
- White County4
- Edwards County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Wabash County3
- Wayne County3
- Perry County2
- Bureau County2
- Cass County2
- Champaign County2
- Christian County2
- DeWitt County2
- Ford County2
- Iroquois County2
- LaSalle County2
- Lee County2
- Livingston County2
- Logan County2
- McLean County2
- Macon County2
- Marshall County2
- Mason County2
- Menard County2
- Morgan County2
- Peoria County2
- Piatt County2
- Putnam County2
- Sangamon County2
54 more counties
- Stark County2
- Tazewell County2
- Vermilion County2
- Woodford County2
- Adams County1
- Brown County1
- Calhoun County1
- Coles County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Fulton County1
- Greene County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Henry County1
- Jersey County1
- Knox County1
- McDonough County1
- Macoupin County1
- Mercer County1
- Montgomery County1
- Moultrie County1
- Pike County1
- Rock Island County1
- Schuyler County1
- Scott County1
- Shelby County1
- Warren County1
- Whiteside County1
- Bond County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Crawford County1
- Cumberland County1
- Effingham County1
- Fayette County1
- Jasper County1
- Lawrence County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Randolph County1
- Richland County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Washington County1
- DeKalb County1
- Grundy County1
- Kane County1
- Kankakee County1
- Kendall County1
- Ogle County1
- Will County1
- Winnebago County1
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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.