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Tornado Warnings in Illinois, March 2023
31 tornado warnings in March 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 March 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 31
- Busiest day
- March 31, 202329 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 11:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Massac, Pope | 21 min |
| Mar 3, 12:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gallatin | 33 min |
| Mar 31, 2:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton, Peoria, Tazewell | 33 min |
| Mar 31, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford | 27 min |
| Mar 31, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Henderson, Warren | 46 min |
| Mar 31, 3:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | McLean, Tazewell, Woodford | 31 min |
| Mar 31, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Adams, Pike | 43 min |
| Mar 31, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Bureau, Henry | 50 min |
| Mar 31, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Adams, Brown, Pike | 40 min |
| Mar 31, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Cass, Morgan, Schuyler | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Greene, Jersey | 40 min |
| Mar 31, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Cass, Menard, Morgan | 29 min |
| Mar 31, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Mercer, Rock Island | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Henderson, Mercer, Rock Island, Warren | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Logan, Menard, Sangamon | 28 min |
| Mar 31, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Logan, Mason, Tazewell, Woodford | 24 min |
| Mar 31, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Jo Daviess | 35 min |
| Mar 31, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Carroll, Jo Daviess | 32 min |
| Mar 31, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Logan, Sangamon | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Bureau, Henry, Whiteside | 31 min |
| Mar 31, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Bureau, Henry | 28 min |
| Mar 31, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Carroll, Stephenson, Whiteside | 25 min |
| Mar 31, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Logan, Macon, Sangamon | 22 min |
| Mar 31, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Jo Daviess, Stephenson | 37 min |
| Mar 31, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Bureau, Henry, Whiteside | 15 min |
| Mar 31, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Lee | 36 min |
| Mar 31, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Ogle | 19 min |
| Mar 31, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, Macon, Piatt | 32 min |
| Mar 31, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Carroll, Stephenson | 25 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Logan County5
- Tazewell County4
- Bureau County4
- Henry County4
- Sangamon County4
- Woodford County3
- Jo Daviess County3
- Carroll County3
- Whiteside County3
- DeWitt County3
- Stephenson County3
- Peoria County2
- Henderson County2
- Warren County2
- Adams County2
- Pike County2
- Cass County2
- Morgan County2
- Menard County2
- Mercer County2
- Rock Island County2
- Macon County2
- Massac County1
- Pope County1
- Gallatin County1
- Fulton County1
- McLean County1
- Brown County1
- Schuyler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Greene County1
- Jersey County1
- Mason County1
- Lee County1
- Ogle County1
- Piatt County1
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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.