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Tornado Warnings in Illinois, 1994

38 tornado warnings in 1994. 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 warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1994. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
38
Busiest month
April23 tornado warnings
Busiest day
April 27, 199414 tornado warnings

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 15, 5:04 AM CDTTornado WarningLSXMonroe41 min
Apr 15, 5:15 AM CDTTornado WarningLSXSaint Clair45 min
Apr 15, 5:37 AM CDTTornado WarningLSXRandolph53 min
Apr 15, 5:49 AM CDTTornado WarningLSXWashington41 min
Apr 26, 7:52 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMacon, Shelby38 min
Apr 26, 8:26 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTKankakee34 min
Apr 26, 8:28 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChristian19 min
Apr 26, 8:28 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMacon, Moultrie, Shelby47 min
Apr 26, 8:52 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTIroquois38 min
Apr 26, 9:04 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMcLean41 min
Apr 26, 9:12 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMacoupin, Montgomery33 min
Apr 26, 9:27 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMonroe48 min
Apr 26, 9:31 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTIroquois29 min
Apr 26, 9:37 PM CDTTornado WarningILXDouglas38 min
Apr 26, 10:11 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign, Piatt44 min
Apr 26, 10:11 PM CDTTornado WarningILXDeWitt44 min
Apr 26, 10:11 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMontgomery34 min
Apr 27, 3:20 AM CDTTornado WarningLSXPerry27 min
Apr 28, 12:22 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXRandolph38 min
Apr 28, 12:40 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXWashington50 min
Apr 28, 12:40 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXSaint Clair24 min
Apr 28, 1:00 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXRandolph23 min
Apr 28, 1:00 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXPerry45 min
May 14, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningILXClark29 min
May 14, 8:44 PM CDTTornado WarningILXClark31 min
Jun 23, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMontgomery33 min
Jun 26, 2:52 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNRock Island38 min
Jun 26, 5:34 PM CDTTornado WarningILXPeoria, Tazewell26 min
Jun 26, 5:47 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMcLean, Woodford43 min
Jun 26, 5:59 PM CDTTornado WarningILXTazewell31 min
Jun 26, 6:08 PM CDTTornado WarningILXLogan, Mason37 min
Jul 5, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTKankakee32 min
Jul 20, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningILXPeoria, Tazewell45 min
Jul 20, 5:47 PM CDTTornado WarningILXWoodford58 min
Aug 8, 4:38 PM CDTTornado WarningILXVermilion22 min
Aug 8, 6:29 PM CDTTornado WarningILXEdgar31 min
Aug 19, 4:33 PM CDTTornado WarningILXStephenson, Winnebago42 min
Aug 19, 7:33 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTLaSalle42 min

By county

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

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 27, 199414tornado warnings
  2. April 28, 19945tornado warnings
  3. June 26, 19945tornado warnings
  4. April 15, 19944tornado warnings
  5. May 15, 19942tornado warnings
  6. July 20, 19942tornado warnings
  7. August 8, 19942tornado warnings
  8. June 23, 19941tornado warnings
  9. July 5, 19941tornado warnings
  10. August 19, 19941tornado warnings
  11. August 20, 19941tornado warnings

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. Rebuilt daily.