PADUCAH, Ky. (WSIL) -- A tornado watch has been issued for the entire region until midnight. This is a particularly dangerous situation (PDS).
The National Weather Service issued the watch just before 3 p.m. in effect for counties in southern Illinois, southeast Missouri, western Kentucky and northwest Tennessee.
Severe weather is expected to move into our region, bringing with it the potential for large to very large hail, potentially long-lived strong tornadoes and widespread damaging winds.
Here are the counties under the tornado watch in our area...
Illinois
- Union County
- Perry County
- Jackson County
- Williamson County
- Randolph County
- Alexander County
- Pulaski County
- Pope County
- Hardin County
- Johnson CountyÂ
- Massac CountyÂ
- Saline County
- Gallatin County
- Franklin CountyÂ
- Jefferson County
- Hamilton County
Missouri
- Cape Girardeau CountyÂ
- Bollinger County
- Butler County
- Perry County
- Madison County
- Wayne CountyÂ
- Stoddard CountyÂ
- Scott CountyÂ
- Mississippi County
- New Madrid County
- Carter County
- Ripley County
- Dunklin County
- Pemiscot CountyÂ
Kentucky
- Marshall County
- McCracken County
- Livingston County
- Hickman County
- Ballard County
- Carlisle County
- Fulton CountyÂ
- Graves County
- Calloway County
- Crittenden CountyÂ
- Caldwell County
- Lyon County
Tennessee
- Lake County
- Obion County
- Weakley County
