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Tornado Watches in Illinois, March 2025
8 tornado watches in March 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 March 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- March 30, 20253 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin and 5 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 14, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 14, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 38 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 19, 12:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Bureau, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 44 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jefferson, Pope and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 31 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 30, 1:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cook, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kane and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Clinton, Edwards, Fayette, Franklin and 20 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Edwards County4
- Gallatin County4
- Hamilton County4
- Jefferson County4
- Saline County4
- Wabash County4
- Wayne County4
- White County4
- Bond County4
- Clinton County4
- Fayette County4
- Marion County4
- Montgomery County4
- Randolph County3
- Franklin County3
- Hardin County3
- Jackson County3
- Perry County3
- Pope County3
- Williamson County3
- Champaign County3
- Christian County3
- Clark County3
- Clay County3
- Coles County3
- Crawford County3
- Cumberland County3
- Douglas County3
- Edgar County3
- Effingham County3
- Ford County3
- Iroquois County3
- Jasper County3
- Lawrence County3
- Livingston County3
- Macon County3
- Moultrie County3
- Piatt County3
- Richland County3
- Shelby County3
48 more counties
- Vermilion County3
- Washington County3
- Alexander County2
- Johnson County2
- Massac County2
- Pulaski County2
- Union County2
- DeWitt County2
- Fulton County2
- Knox County2
- Logan County2
- McLean County2
- Marshall County2
- Mason County2
- Menard County2
- Peoria County2
- Sangamon County2
- Stark County2
- Tazewell County2
- Woodford County2
- Grundy County2
- Kankakee County2
- Kendall County2
- Will County2
- Adams County1
- Brown County1
- Calhoun County1
- Greene County1
- Jersey County1
- Macoupin County1
- Madison County1
- Monroe County1
- Pike County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Cass County1
- Morgan County1
- Schuyler County1
- Scott County1
- Bureau County1
- Henry County1
- LaSalle County1
- Mercer County1
- Putnam County1
- Rock Island County1
- Warren County1
- Cook County1
- DuPage County1
- Kane 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.