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Tornado Warnings in Illinois, August 2023

11 tornado warnings in August 2023. 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 August 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings: 11
Busiest day: August 6, 20239 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
Aug 6, 2:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Adams, Brown	63 min
Aug 6, 3:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Brown	48 min
Aug 6, 3:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Adams	34 min
Aug 6, 4:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Cass	29 min
Aug 6, 4:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Brown	13 min
Aug 6, 5:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Hancock	38 min
Aug 6, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Christian, Sangamon	36 min
Aug 6, 6:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Fayette	39 min
Aug 6, 6:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	ILX	Christian, Shelby	33 min
Aug 7, 12:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Williamson	15 min
Aug 26, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	ILX	Fulton	30 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.