Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings / 2016

Tornado Warnings in Illinois, March 2016

19 tornado warnings in March 2016. 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 March 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
19
Busiest day
March 16, 201614 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 15, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHancock48 min
Mar 15, 6:05 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHancock, Henderson31 min
Mar 15, 6:06 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHancock, McDonough54 min
Mar 15, 6:29 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNMcDonough, Warren33 min
Mar 15, 6:33 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedILXFulton, Knox27 min
Mar 15, 7:00 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedILXFulton, Knox30 min
Mar 15, 7:01 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMorgan29 min
Mar 15, 7:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry, Rock Island49 min
Mar 15, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMorgan, Sangamon34 min
Mar 15, 7:31 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNRock Island, Whiteside44 min
Mar 15, 7:43 PM CDTTornado WarningILXPeoria32 min
Mar 15, 7:48 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMenard, Sangamon27 min
Mar 15, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCarroll19 min
Mar 15, 8:05 PM CDTTornado WarningILXPeoria, Tazewell, Woodford25 min
Mar 15, 8:33 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNWhiteside16 min
Mar 15, 8:37 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTLee38 min
Mar 15, 8:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCarroll12 min
Mar 15, 10:22 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTIroquois, Kankakee23 min
Mar 15, 10:34 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTKankakee26 min

By county

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

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.