Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2023
Tornado Watches in Illinois, April 2023
5 tornado watches in April 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- April 5, 20232 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, Fulton, Hancock and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 1:32 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson and 9 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 5, 8:44 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 15, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Franklin and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 20, 2:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 31 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alexander County3
- Franklin County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Perry County3
- Union County3
- Wayne County3
- Bureau County2
- Carroll County2
- Fulton County2
- Hancock County2
- Henderson County2
- Henry County2
- Jo Daviess County2
- Knox County2
- McDonough County2
- Marshall County2
- Mercer County2
- Peoria County2
- Putnam County2
- Rock Island County2
- Stark County2
- Stephenson County2
- Tazewell County2
- Warren County2
- Whiteside County2
- Woodford County2
- Hamilton County2
- Johnson County2
- Pope County2
- Pulaski County2
- Randolph County2
- Saline County2
- White County2
- Williamson County2
- Adams County1
- Cass County1
- Mason County1
- Schuyler County1
- Edwards County1
34 more counties
- Gallatin County1
- Hardin County1
- Massac County1
- Wabash County1
- Bond County1
- Calhoun County1
- Clinton County1
- Fayette County1
- Greene County1
- Jersey County1
- Macoupin County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Washington County1
- Boone County1
- Cook County1
- DeKalb County1
- DuPage County1
- Grundy County1
- Kane County1
- Kankakee County1
- Kendall County1
- Lake County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lee County1
- Livingston County1
- McHenry County1
- McLean County1
- Ogle County1
- Will County1
- Winnebago 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.