Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings / 1997
Tornado Warnings in Illinois, April 1997
23 tornado warnings in April 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 April 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 23
- Busiest day
- April 30, 199723 tornado warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 1:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Hancock | 34 min |
| Apr 30, 1:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Adams | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 2:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 27 min |
| Apr 30, 2:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | McDonough | 34 min |
| Apr 30, 2:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Warren | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 2:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton, Schuyler | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Macoupin | 42 min |
| Apr 30, 2:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Lee | 34 min |
| Apr 30, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Knox | 42 min |
| Apr 30, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Mason | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian | 45 min |
| Apr 30, 3:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Marshall, Stark | 37 min |
| Apr 30, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Henry | 50 min |
| Apr 30, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Macon | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | McLean, Tazewell | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 40 min |
| Apr 30, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Piatt | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Marshall | 30 min |
| Apr 30, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign | 55 min |
| Apr 30, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Carroll, Whiteside | 34 min |
| Apr 30, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Jo Daviess | 32 min |
| Apr 30, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Lake | 32 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Schuyler County2
- Tazewell County2
- Marshall County2
- Hancock County1
- Adams County1
- McDonough County1
- Warren County1
- Fulton County1
- Macoupin County1
- Lee County1
- Knox County1
- Peoria County1
- Mason County1
- Christian County1
- Stark County1
- Henry County1
- Macon County1
- McLean County1
- DeWitt County1
- Piatt County1
- Champaign County1
- Carroll County1
- Whiteside County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Lake County1
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.