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Tornado Warnings in Illinois, February 2024

16 tornado warnings in February 2024. 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 February 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
16
Busiest day
February 28, 202412 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
Feb 8, 4:41 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNPutnam18 min
Feb 27, 5:28 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNHenry47 min
Feb 27, 5:43 PM CSTTornado WarningDVNHenry, Mercer18 min
Feb 27, 5:54 PM CSTTornado WarningLOTLaSalle, Lee51 min
Feb 27, 6:02 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedDVNBureau, Henry37 min
Feb 27, 6:22 PM CSTTornado WarningLOTDeKalb39 min
Feb 27, 6:27 PM CSTTornado WarningLOTDeKalb32 min
Feb 27, 6:45 PM CSTTornado WarningLOTKane27 min
Feb 27, 6:52 PM CSTTornado WarningLOTKane38 min
Feb 27, 6:54 PM CSTTornado WarningLOTKane, Kendall21 min
Feb 27, 7:11 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedLOTKane19 min
Feb 27, 7:17 PM CSTTornado WarningLOTCook, Lake, McHenry28 min
Feb 27, 7:19 PM CSTTornado WarningLOTCook, DuPage26 min
Feb 27, 7:32 PM CSTTornado WarningLOTCook, DuPage, Lake38 min
Feb 27, 9:02 PM CSTTornado WarningLOTCook28 min
Feb 27, 11:45 PM CSTTornado WarningILXClark, Crawford, Cumberland, Jasper29 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.