Tornado Watch until 08:00PM Saturday
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 163 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN ILLINOIS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 31 COUNTIES IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS CHRISTIAN DE WITT LOGAN MACON MARSHALL MASON MCLEAN MENARD PEORIA SANGAMON SHELBY STARK TAZEWELL WOODFORD IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS CHAMPAIGN CLARK COLES CUMBERLAND DOUGLAS EDGAR MOULTRIE PIATT VERMILION IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS CLAY CRAWFORD EFFINGHAM JASPER LAWRENCE RICHLAND IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS FULTON KNOX THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF BLOOMINGTON, CANTON, CHAMPAIGN, CHARLESTON, CLINTON, DANVILLE, DECATUR, EFFINGHAM, EUREKA, FLORA, GALESBURG, GREENUP, HAVANA, LACON, LAWRENCEVILLE, LINCOLN, MARSHALL, MATTOON, MONTICELLO, NEWTON, NORMAL, OLNEY, PARIS, PEKIN, PEORIA, PETERSBURG, ROBINSON, SHELBYVILLE, SPRINGFIELD, SULLIVAN, TAYLORVILLE, TOULON, TUSCOLA, AND URBANA.
* AFFECTED AREAS: CHAMPAIGN, IL ... CHRISTIAN, IL ... CLARK, IL ... CLAY, IL ... COLES, IL ... CRAWFORD, IL ... CUMBERLAND, IL ... DE WITT, IL ... DOUGLAS, IL ... EDGAR, IL ... EFFINGHAM, IL ... FULTON, IL ... JASPER, IL ... KNOX, IL ... LAWRENCE, IL ... LOGAN, IL ... MCLEAN, IL ... MACON, IL ... MARSHALL, IL ... MASON, IL ... MENARD, IL ... MOULTRIE, IL ... PEORIA, IL ... PIATT, IL ... RICHLAND, IL ... SANGAMON, IL ... SHELBY, IL ... STARK, IL ... TAZEWELL, IL ... VERMILION, IL ... WOODFORD, IL
Address/Location
Vermilion County Emergency Management Agency
201 N Vermilion St
Danville, IL 61832
Contact
Emergency: 9-1-1
Non-emergencies: 217-443-6011
Alert Details
- Severity:
- Extreme - Extraordinary threat to life or property
- Urgency:
- Future - Responsive action SHOULD be taken in the near future
- Certainty:
- Possible (p <= ~50%)
- Category:
- Meteorological (inc. flood)
- Event:
- Tornado Watch