Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2024
Tornado Watches in Illinois, April 2024
8 tornado watches in April 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- April 2, 20243 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 1, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 26 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 1, 10:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 2, 2:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Clay, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 2, 12:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 12:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, Fulton and 20 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 16, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, DeKalb, LaSalle, Lee, Ogle, Winnebago | 4 hr |
| Apr 27, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 9:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian, DeWitt and 23 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jersey County3
- Macoupin County3
- Madison County3
- Montgomery County3
- Morgan County3
- Pike County3
- Scott County3
- Bond County2
- Calhoun County2
- Christian County2
- Clay County2
- Clinton County2
- Fayette County2
- Greene County2
- Lawrence County2
- Macon County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Richland County2
- Saint Clair County2
- Sangamon County2
- Washington County2
- Alexander County2
- Edwards County2
- Franklin County2
- Gallatin County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Johnson County2
- Massac County2
- Pope County2
- Pulaski County2
- Saline County2
- Union County2
- Wabash County2
- Wayne County2
- White County2
- Williamson County2
- Adams County2
- Brown County2
48 more counties
- Bureau County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Fulton County2
- Hancock County2
- Henderson County2
- Henry County2
- Jo Daviess County2
- Knox County2
- McDonough County2
- Marshall County2
- Mason County2
- Mercer County2
- Peoria County2
- Putnam County2
- Rock Island County2
- Schuyler County2
- Stark County2
- Stephenson County2
- Warren County2
- Whiteside County2
- Clark County1
- Coles County1
- Crawford County1
- Cumberland County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Effingham County1
- Jasper County1
- Moultrie County1
- Shelby County1
- Randolph County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Perry County1
- Boone County1
- DeKalb County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lee County1
- Ogle County1
- Winnebago County1
- DeWitt County1
- Logan County1
- McLean County1
- Menard County1
- Piatt County1
- Tazewell County1
- Woodford 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.