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Tornado Warnings in Illinois, 2017

83 tornado warnings in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
83
Busiest month
March31 tornado warnings
Busiest day
March 1, 201719 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
Feb 28, 3:28 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNRock Island47 min
Feb 28, 4:02 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNWhiteside22 min
Feb 28, 4:27 PM CSTTornado WarningLOTLaSalle48 min
Feb 28, 4:42 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNBureau, Putnam14 min
Feb 28, 4:46 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNWhiteside15 min
Feb 28, 4:47 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNPutnam8 min
Feb 28, 4:51 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatLOTGrundy, Kendall, LaSalle39 min
Feb 28, 5:05 PM CSTTornado WarningILXMarshall, Peoria, Woodford25 min
Feb 28, 5:14 PM CSTTornado WarningLSXMacoupin, Montgomery31 min
Feb 28, 5:28 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedILXMarshall, Woodford32 min
Feb 28, 5:36 PM CSTTornado WarningILXChristian24 min
Feb 28, 5:36 PM CSTTornado WarningLOTLaSalle, Livingston39 min
Feb 28, 6:13 PM CSTTornado WarningLOTGrundy, LaSalle, Livingston32 min
Feb 28, 8:07 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedPAHJackson23 min
Feb 28, 8:08 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedLSXRandolph14 min
Feb 28, 8:21 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatPAHJackson, Perry27 min
Feb 28, 8:34 PM CSTTornado WarningILXClay, Richland41 min
Feb 28, 8:37 PM CSTTornado WarningLSXAdams, Pike27 min
Feb 28, 8:39 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatPAHFranklin, Jackson, Perry36 min
Feb 28, 8:59 PM CSTTornado Warning Considerable damage threatPAHFranklin, Hamilton, Jefferson46 min
Feb 28, 9:04 PM CSTTornado WarningILXCrawford, Lawrence, Richland41 min
Feb 28, 9:20 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNBureau, Putnam40 min
Feb 28, 9:23 PM CSTTornado WarningLSXBrown, Pike22 min
Feb 28, 9:24 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHEdwards, Hamilton, Wayne, White36 min
Feb 28, 9:29 PM CSTTornado WarningILXCass, Schuyler23 min
Feb 28, 9:52 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHEdwards, Wabash, Wayne, White23 min
Feb 28, 10:11 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatPAHEdwards, Wabash, White34 min
Feb 28, 10:30 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedPAHJackson30 min
Feb 28, 10:43 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHFranklin, Williamson32 min
Feb 28, 11:21 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHGallatin, Hamilton, Saline, White24 min
Mar 1, 4:06 AM CSTTornado WarningPAHJackson24 min
Mar 6, 10:10 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNRock Island24 min
Mar 6, 10:22 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedLSXAdams, Brown30 min
Mar 6, 10:44 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNHancock, Henderson, McDonough, Warren31 min
Mar 6, 10:46 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNCarroll20 min
Mar 6, 10:56 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNCarroll, Whiteside27 min
Mar 6, 10:58 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNHenry, Mercer32 min
Mar 6, 10:59 PM CSTTornado WarningILXKnox19 min
Mar 6, 11:03 PM CSTTornado WarningILXKnox42 min
Mar 6, 11:08 PM CSTTornado WarningILXFulton, Knox37 min
Mar 7, 12:03 AM CSTTornado WarningILXMcLean, Tazewell27 min
Mar 7, 12:08 AM CSTTornado WarningDVNBureau, Putnam17 min
Mar 7, 1:11 AM CSTTornado WarningLSXFayette, Montgomery21 min
Apr 5, 3:53 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHEdwards, Wayne, White37 min
Apr 5, 4:11 PM CDTTornado WarningILXCrawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland49 min
Apr 28, 8:08 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHGallatin, White37 min
Apr 29, 3:56 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXJersey, Macoupin, Madison16 min
Apr 29, 5:50 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMacon, Moultrie, Shelby25 min
May 10, 7:43 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMacon, Piatt32 min
May 17, 4:40 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNMercer, Rock Island50 min
May 17, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenderson, Mercer, Warren45 min
May 17, 8:05 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNHenry, Mercer, Rock Island40 min
May 17, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBureau, Henry, Whiteside23 min
May 17, 9:54 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTLee, Ogle21 min
May 17, 10:04 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTBoone, Winnebago26 min
May 17, 10:22 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTBoone, McHenry23 min
May 26, 4:35 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTFord, Iroquois, Livingston40 min
May 26, 5:10 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign, Vermilion35 min
May 27, 4:23 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHMassac, Pope16 min
Jun 28, 7:24 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatDVNJo Daviess51 min
Jun 28, 7:40 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTWinnebago20 min
Jun 28, 8:19 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTBoone, DeKalb26 min
Jun 28, 8:24 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNCarroll, Jo Daviess51 min
Jul 10, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningILXPeoria30 min
Jul 10, 6:01 PM CDTTornado WarningILXPeoria29 min
Jul 10, 6:03 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMarshall, Peoria16 min
Jul 10, 6:52 PM CDTTornado WarningILXPeoria, Tazewell23 min
Jul 10, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHancock34 min
Jul 10, 8:17 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNMcDonough28 min
Jul 10, 8:19 PM CDTTornado WarningILXFulton26 min
Jul 10, 8:45 PM CDTTornado WarningILXFulton18 min
Jul 19, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTBoone, DeKalb, Ogle, Winnebago29 min
Jul 21, 6:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNRock Island50 min
Jul 21, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCarroll, Whiteside42 min
Jul 21, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNWhiteside22 min
Jul 21, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTIroquois29 min
Jul 23, 5:39 AM CDTTornado WarningPAHWabash19 min
Oct 10, 5:53 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHUnion26 min
Oct 14, 5:31 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHancock44 min
Oct 14, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHancock20 min
Oct 14, 6:33 PM CDTTornado WarningILXSchuyler27 min
Nov 5, 5:36 PM CSTTornado WarningILXCrawford, Lawrence, Richland24 min
Nov 5, 5:57 PM CSTTornado WarningILXCrawford, Lawrence, Richland33 min

By county

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

29 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 1, 201719tornado warnings
  2. February 28, 201712tornado warnings
  3. March 7, 201712tornado warnings
  4. May 18, 20176tornado warnings
  5. June 29, 20174tornado warnings
  6. July 10, 20174tornado warnings
  7. July 11, 20174tornado warnings
  8. April 29, 20173tornado warnings
  9. July 22, 20173tornado warnings
  10. October 14, 20173tornado warnings
  11. April 5, 20172tornado warnings
  12. May 26, 20172tornado 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.