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Tornado Watches in Illinois, April 2025
10 tornado watches in April 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- April 2, 20254 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 2, 8:47 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jersey and 9 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 2, 2:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 23 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 2, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Macoupin, Madison, Marion and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 20, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Alexander, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun and 52 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 20, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, LaSalle, Lee and 1 more | 116 min |
| Apr 20, 9:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Crawford, Edwards, Effingham, Gallatin, Hamilton and 10 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 30, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 24 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bond County4
- Clinton County4
- Fayette County4
- Macoupin County4
- Madison County4
- Marion County4
- Monroe County4
- Montgomery County4
- Saint Clair County4
- Washington County4
- Alexander County4
- Gallatin County4
- Hardin County4
- Johnson County4
- Massac County4
- Pope County4
- Pulaski County4
- Saline County4
- Calhoun County3
- Greene County3
- Jersey County3
- Randolph County3
- Edwards County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Union County3
- Wabash County3
- Wayne County3
- Williamson County3
- Christian County3
- Clay County3
- Crawford County3
- Effingham County3
- Jasper County3
- Lawrence County3
- Moultrie County3
- Richland County3
- Shelby County3
- Pike County2
- Franklin County2
49 more counties
- Hamilton County2
- Perry County2
- White County2
- Clark County2
- Coles County2
- Cumberland County2
- DeWitt County2
- Edgar County2
- Ford County2
- Grundy County2
- Iroquois County2
- Kankakee County2
- Livingston County2
- Logan County2
- McLean County2
- Macon County2
- Menard County2
- Piatt County2
- Sangamon County2
- Champaign County1
- Douglas County1
- Vermilion County1
- Will County1
- Adams County1
- Brown County1
- Bureau County1
- Cass County1
- Fulton County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Henry County1
- Knox County1
- McDonough County1
- Marshall County1
- Mason County1
- Mercer County1
- Morgan County1
- Peoria County1
- Putnam County1
- Rock Island County1
- Schuyler County1
- Scott County1
- Stark County1
- Tazewell County1
- Warren County1
- Whiteside County1
- Woodford County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lee 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.