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Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Will County, Illinois, 2026

20 severe thunderstorm watches in 2026. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.

Will County and its neighbors

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Severe Thunderstorm Watches
20
Busiest month
March5 severe thunderstorm watches
Busiest day
March 31, 20262 severe thunderstorm watches

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 6, 5:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr
Mar 10, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Mar 26, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Mar 30, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Mar 31, 9:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Apr 13, 2:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
May 18, 10:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 10, 2:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr
Jun 10, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 24, 1:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jul 3, 11:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 3, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 4, 12:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 18, 12:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Jul 27, 11:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Aug 9, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Aug 10, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Aug 11, 7:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Aug 12, 6:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Aug 21, 2:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 31, 20262severe thunderstorm watches
  2. July 3, 20262severe thunderstorm watches
  3. August 10, 20262severe thunderstorm watches
  4. March 6, 20261severe thunderstorm watches
  5. March 10, 20261severe thunderstorm watches
  6. March 26, 20261severe thunderstorm watches
  7. April 13, 20261severe thunderstorm watches
  8. May 18, 20261severe thunderstorm watches
  9. June 10, 20261severe thunderstorm watches
  10. June 11, 20261severe thunderstorm watches

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.