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Tornado Warnings in Illinois, 2002

64 tornado warnings in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
64
Busiest month
May20 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 1, 200213 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 12, 3:55 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign, Douglas35 min
Apr 18, 7:14 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTLake31 min
Apr 19, 7:19 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign56 min
Apr 19, 7:42 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMadison48 min
Apr 21, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHFranklin35 min
Apr 21, 4:01 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHWayne29 min
Apr 21, 4:04 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHHamilton26 min
Apr 21, 4:29 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHWhite31 min
Apr 24, 4:40 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHGallatin, White35 min
Apr 24, 5:10 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHGallatin, Saline35 min
Apr 24, 6:21 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHHamilton, White39 min
Apr 24, 6:39 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHGallatin36 min
Apr 27, 10:57 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXClinton, Saint Clair, Washington48 min
Apr 28, 1:11 AM CDTTornado WarningPAHUnion34 min
Apr 28, 1:32 AM CDTTornado WarningPAHJohnson43 min
Apr 28, 1:47 AM CDTTornado WarningPAHPope43 min
Apr 28, 2:14 AM CDTTornado WarningPAHHardin46 min
May 1, 1:33 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXBond42 min
May 1, 1:56 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMarion49 min
May 1, 2:09 PM CDTTornado WarningILXClay66 min
May 1, 2:10 PM CDTTornado WarningILXClay65 min
May 1, 2:37 PM CDTTornado WarningILXRichland38 min
May 1, 2:44 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHWayne46 min
May 1, 2:54 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMacoupin, Montgomery21 min
May 1, 3:05 PM CDTTornado WarningILXLawrence40 min
May 1, 3:05 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHEdwards, Wabash40 min
May 1, 3:10 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChristian50 min
May 1, 3:36 PM CDTTornado WarningILXShelby54 min
May 1, 3:43 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHWabash17 min
May 1, 4:21 PM CDTTornado WarningILXCumberland54 min
May 7, 2:09 AM CDTTornado WarningLSXCalhoun, Jersey51 min
May 7, 2:41 AM CDTTornado WarningLSXMadison49 min
May 7, 3:00 AM CDTTornado WarningLSXMacoupin, Montgomery45 min
May 8, 9:59 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXPike46 min
May 8, 10:58 PM CDTTornado WarningILXFulton, Mason47 min
May 8, 11:28 PM CDTTornado WarningILXPeoria, Tazewell62 min
May 12, 6:44 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXRandolph46 min
Jun 4, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMarshall30 min
Jun 4, 2:35 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTLaSalle, Livingston40 min
Jun 4, 3:17 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTLivingston28 min
Jun 4, 7:43 PM CDTTornado WarningILXVermilion32 min
Jun 4, 8:31 PM CDTTornado WarningILXClark44 min
Jun 11, 3:22 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMorgan38 min
Jun 11, 4:56 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXFayette49 min
Jun 11, 5:02 PM CDTTornado WarningILXShelby28 min
Jun 11, 5:29 PM CDTTornado WarningILXEffingham46 min
Jun 12, 11:50 PM CDTTornado WarningILXFulton55 min
Jun 13, 12:43 AM CDTTornado WarningILXFulton, Mason, Tazewell62 min
Jun 13, 1:30 AM CDTTornado WarningILXLogan60 min
Jul 22, 9:08 PM CDTTornado WarningILXCumberland37 min
Aug 4, 7:37 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBureau23 min
Nov 9, 11:15 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHJohnson, Pope45 min
Nov 9, 11:40 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHHardin50 min
Nov 10, 12:29 AM CSTTornado WarningPAHHardin61 min
Nov 10, 11:39 AM CSTTornado WarningILXClark, Coles, Edgar66 min
Nov 10, 11:48 AM CSTTornado WarningILXCumberland57 min
Nov 10, 11:48 AM CSTTornado WarningILXCumberland57 min
Nov 10, 1:23 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHJackson37 min
Nov 10, 1:40 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHFranklin50 min
Nov 10, 2:04 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHHamilton41 min
Nov 10, 2:33 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHWayne, White27 min
Dec 17, 11:22 PM CSTTornado WarningLSXCalhoun, Greene, Jersey23 min
Dec 17, 11:50 PM CSTTornado WarningLSXGreene40 min
Dec 18, 4:47 PM CSTTornado WarningLSXGreene28 min

By county

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

11 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 1, 200213tornado warnings
  2. November 10, 200210tornado warnings
  3. April 28, 20025tornado warnings
  4. April 21, 20024tornado warnings
  5. April 24, 20024tornado warnings
  6. June 11, 20024tornado warnings
  7. May 7, 20023tornado warnings
  8. May 9, 20023tornado warnings
  9. June 4, 20023tornado warnings
  10. June 13, 20023tornado warnings
  11. December 18, 20023tornado warnings
  12. April 20, 20022tornado 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.