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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 2, 8:47 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jersey and 9 more9 hr
Apr 2, 2:52 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAlexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more9 hr
Apr 2, 3:17 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChampaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 23 more7 hr
Apr 2, 4:19 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBond, Clinton, Fayette, Macoupin, Madison, Marion and 5 more3 hr
Apr 4, 2:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more7 hr
Apr 4, 9:41 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope and 2 more5 hr
Apr 20, 3:41 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Alexander, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun and 52 more7 hr
Apr 20, 9:01 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFord, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, LaSalle, Lee and 1 more116 min
Apr 20, 9:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Crawford, Edwards, Effingham, Gallatin, Hamilton and 10 more4 hr
Apr 30, 4:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBond, Calhoun, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 24 more5 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

49 more counties

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.