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Tornado Warnings in Illinois, 1997

64 tornado warnings in 1997. 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 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
64
Busiest month
April23 tornado warnings
Busiest day
April 30, 199723 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
Mar 28, 5:12 PM CSTTornado WarningILXColes, Cumberland33 min
Mar 28, 5:38 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHJohnson, Massac, Pope22 min
Mar 28, 6:02 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHHardin, Pope28 min
Apr 30, 1:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHancock34 min
Apr 30, 1:42 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXAdams48 min
Apr 30, 2:03 PM CDTTornado WarningILXSchuyler27 min
Apr 30, 2:06 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNMcDonough34 min
Apr 30, 2:22 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNWarren48 min
Apr 30, 2:27 PM CDTTornado WarningILXFulton, Schuyler48 min
Apr 30, 2:33 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMacoupin42 min
Apr 30, 2:41 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTLee34 min
Apr 30, 2:48 PM CDTTornado WarningILXKnox42 min
Apr 30, 3:02 PM CDTTornado WarningILXPeoria, Tazewell43 min
Apr 30, 3:02 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMason43 min
Apr 30, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChristian45 min
Apr 30, 3:23 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMarshall, Stark37 min
Apr 30, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry50 min
Apr 30, 3:32 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMacon43 min
Apr 30, 3:43 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMcLean, Tazewell47 min
Apr 30, 3:50 PM CDTTornado WarningILXDeWitt40 min
Apr 30, 3:57 PM CDTTornado WarningILXPiatt48 min
Apr 30, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMarshall30 min
Apr 30, 4:05 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign55 min
Apr 30, 4:46 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCarroll, Whiteside34 min
Apr 30, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJo Daviess32 min
Apr 30, 5:13 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTLake32 min
May 18, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTLee60 min
May 18, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTLake, McHenry60 min
May 18, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTKane30 min
May 18, 7:47 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTDuPage, Will58 min
May 18, 8:01 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNRock Island49 min
May 18, 8:04 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTGrundy, Kankakee, Will56 min
May 18, 8:04 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTCook56 min
May 18, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry47 min
May 18, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBureau49 min
May 18, 9:07 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNWarren48 min
May 18, 9:14 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNPutnam31 min
May 18, 9:17 PM CDTTornado WarningILXKnox48 min
May 18, 9:18 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTLaSalle57 min
May 18, 9:31 PM CDTTornado WarningILXFulton, Peoria49 min
May 18, 10:10 PM CDTTornado WarningILXTazewell50 min
May 18, 10:13 PM CDTTornado WarningILXPeoria32 min
Jun 6, 2:04 PM CDTTornado WarningILXFulton56 min
Jun 12, 6:52 PM CDTTornado WarningILXDouglas38 min
Jul 1, 11:40 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJo Daviess60 min
Jul 2, 12:41 AM CDTTornado WarningDVNJo Daviess59 min
Jul 2, 1:20 AM CDTTornado WarningDVNStephenson60 min
Jul 19, 5:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHancock, Henderson, McDonough50 min
Jul 21, 3:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNRock Island49 min
Aug 3, 3:51 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNRock Island49 min
Aug 3, 4:50 PM CDTTornado WarningILXKnox65 min
Aug 3, 5:07 PM CDTTornado WarningILXPeoria53 min
Aug 16, 5:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNWhiteside62 min
Aug 16, 7:09 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNRock Island46 min
Aug 16, 7:24 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNWhiteside46 min
Aug 16, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNRock Island35 min
Aug 16, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNWhiteside30 min
Aug 16, 8:23 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry62 min
Aug 24, 2:51 PM CDTTornado WarningILXLogan, Tazewell39 min
Aug 24, 4:09 PM CDTTornado WarningILXLogan51 min
Aug 24, 4:24 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChristian, Macon, Shelby36 min
Aug 24, 5:25 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMason, Menard35 min
Aug 24, 5:43 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHancock32 min
Aug 24, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHancock33 min

By county

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

8 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 30, 199723tornado warnings
  2. May 19, 199715tornado warnings
  3. August 24, 19976tornado warnings
  4. August 17, 19975tornado warnings
  5. July 2, 19973tornado warnings
  6. August 3, 19973tornado warnings
  7. March 28, 19972tornado warnings
  8. March 29, 19971tornado warnings
  9. May 18, 19971tornado warnings
  10. June 6, 19971tornado warnings
  11. June 12, 19971tornado warnings
  12. July 19, 19971tornado 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.