Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2026

Tornado Watches in Illinois, June 2026

11 tornado watches in June 2026. 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 June 2026. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
11
Busiest day
June 11, 20263 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
Jun 10, 4:01 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Calhoun, Hancock, Henderson, Henry and 6 more7 hr
Jun 10, 7:06 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBureau, Cass, DeKalb, DeWitt, Fulton, Grundy and 17 more4 hr
Jun 11, 7:31 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Bureau, Carroll, Fulton, Hancock and 15 more7 hr
Jun 11, 1:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Carroll, Cass and 45 more7 hr
Jun 11, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChampaign, Christian, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Macon and 4 more6 hr
Jun 17, 7:49 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 40 more6 hr
Jun 17, 2:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign and 45 more11 hr
Jun 17, 9:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCEdwards, Hamilton, Wabash, Wayne, White7 hr
Jun 21, 1:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBond, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 31 more9 hr
Jun 21, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHamilton, White8 hr
Jun 26, 3:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more3 hr

By county

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

62 more counties

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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.