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Tornado Warnings in Illinois, December 2025

17 tornado warnings in December 2025. 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 December 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
17
Busiest day
December 28, 202515 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
Dec 18, 10:12 AM CSTTornado WarningLSXCalhoun48 min
Dec 18, 3:25 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHMassac, Pope22 min
Dec 28, 2:46 PM CSTTornado WarningILXChristian29 min
Dec 28, 3:03 PM CSTTornado WarningILXMacon27 min
Dec 28, 3:25 PM CSTTornado WarningLOTFord, Iroquois20 min
Dec 28, 3:26 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedILXMacon, Piatt21 min
Dec 28, 3:33 PM CSTTornado WarningLOTIroquois, Kankakee27 min
Dec 28, 3:45 PM CSTTornado WarningILXPiatt7 min
Dec 28, 3:58 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedLOTIroquois, Kankakee32 min
Dec 28, 4:12 PM CSTTornado WarningLOTIroquois48 min
Dec 28, 5:27 PM CSTTornado WarningILXRichland18 min
Dec 28, 5:28 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHEdwards, Wabash, Wayne20 min
Dec 28, 5:29 PM CSTTornado WarningILXLawrence, Richland31 min
Dec 28, 5:35 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHEdwards, Wabash, Wayne40 min
Dec 28, 5:38 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHEdwards, Wabash, Wayne35 min
Dec 28, 5:39 PM CSTTornado WarningILXCrawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland36 min
Dec 28, 5:53 PM CSTTornado WarningILXLawrence22 min

By county

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

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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.