THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 54 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN ILLINOIS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 29 COUNTIES IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS CHRISTIAN DE WITT LOGAN MACON MASON MCLEAN MENARD SANGAMON SHELBY 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 CASS MORGAN SCOTT THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF BEARDSTOWN, BLOOMINGTON, CHAMPAIGN, CHARLESTON, CLINTON, DANVILLE, DECATUR, EFFINGHAM, EUREKA, FLORA, GREENUP, HAVANA, JACKSONVILLE, LAWRENCEVILLE, LINCOLN, MARSHALL, MATTOON, MONTICELLO, NEWTON, NORMAL, OLNEY, PARIS, PEKIN, PETERSBURG, ROBINSON, SHELBYVILLE, SPRINGFIELD, SULLIVAN, TAYLORVILLE, TUSCOLA, URBANA, AND WINCHESTER.
* AFFECTED AREAS: CASS, IL ... CHAMPAIGN, IL ... CHRISTIAN, IL ... CLARK, IL ... CLAY, IL ... COLES, IL ... CRAWFORD, IL ... CUMBERLAND, IL ... DE WITT, IL ... DOUGLAS, IL ... EDGAR, IL ... EFFINGHAM, IL ... JASPER, IL ... LAWRENCE, IL ... LOGAN, IL ... MCLEAN, IL ... MACON, IL ... MASON, IL ... MENARD, IL ... MORGAN, IL ... MOULTRIE, IL ... PIATT, IL ... RICHLAND, IL ... SANGAMON, IL ... SCOTT, IL ... SHELBY, IL ... TAZEWELL, IL ... VERMILION, IL ... WOODFORD, IL
