Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2024
Tornado Watches in Illinois, July 2024
3 tornado watches in July 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 July 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- July 2, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 3:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, McDonough and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Crawford, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton and 16 more | 10 hr |
| Jul 15, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, Champaign, Cook and 39 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Carroll County2
- Henry County2
- Rock Island County2
- Whiteside County2
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- McDonough County1
- Mercer County1
- Warren County1
- Alexander County1
- Crawford County1
- Edwards County1
- Franklin County1
- Gallatin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Massac County1
- Perry County1
- Pope County1
- Pulaski County1
- Richland County1
- Saline County1
- Union County1
- Wabash County1
- Wayne County1
- White County1
- Williamson County1
- Boone County1
- Bureau County1
- Cass County1
- Champaign County1
- Cook County1
- DeKalb County1
- DeWitt County1
- DuPage County1
33 more counties
- Ford County1
- Fulton County1
- Grundy County1
- Iroquois County1
- Kane County1
- Kankakee County1
- Kendall County1
- Knox County1
- Lake County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lee County1
- Livingston County1
- Logan County1
- McHenry County1
- McLean County1
- Macon County1
- Marshall County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Morgan County1
- Ogle County1
- Peoria County1
- Piatt County1
- Putnam County1
- Sangamon County1
- Scott County1
- Stark County1
- Stephenson County1
- Tazewell County1
- Vermilion County1
- Will County1
- Winnebago County1
- Woodford 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.