Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2024
Tornado Watches in Illinois, February 2024
2 tornado watches in February 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 February 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- February 27, 20241 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 3:53 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 27, 9:29 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Crawford and 30 more | 10 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Boone County1
- Bureau County1
- Cook County1
- DeKalb County1
- DuPage County1
- Ford County1
- Grundy County1
- Henry County1
- Iroquois County1
- Kane County1
- Kankakee County1
- Kendall County1
- Lake County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lee County1
- Livingston County1
- McHenry County1
- Marshall County1
- Mercer County1
- Ogle County1
- Putnam County1
- Rock Island County1
- Stark County1
- Whiteside County1
- Will County1
- Winnebago County1
- Alexander County1
- Bond County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Crawford County1
- Cumberland County1
- Edwards County1
- Effingham County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Gallatin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
22 more counties
- Jackson County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Massac County1
- Monroe County1
- Perry County1
- Pope County1
- Pulaski County1
- Randolph County1
- Richland County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Saline County1
- Union County1
- Wabash County1
- Washington 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.