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Tornado Warnings in Illinois, February 2026

19 tornado warnings in February 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
19
Busiest day
February 19, 202614 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 19, 3:06 PM CSTTornado WarningILXEffingham24 min
Feb 19, 3:23 PM CSTTornado WarningILXEffingham, Jasper52 min
Feb 19, 3:49 PM CSTTornado WarningILXClark, Cumberland26 min
Feb 19, 3:59 PM CSTTornado WarningILXClark, Crawford, Cumberland, Jasper31 min
Feb 19, 4:09 PM CSTTornado WarningILXCrawford36 min
Feb 19, 4:10 PM CSTTornado WarningILXClark50 min
Feb 19, 4:22 PM CSTTornado WarningILXClark, Crawford23 min
Feb 19, 4:25 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatILXCrawford12 min
Feb 19, 4:39 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedILXCrawford12 min
Feb 19, 4:43 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedILXClark, Crawford17 min
Feb 19, 5:04 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHJefferson41 min
Feb 19, 5:12 PM CSTTornado WarningLSXMarion29 min
Feb 19, 5:40 PM CSTTornado WarningLSXFayette40 min
Feb 19, 5:57 PM CSTTornado WarningILXClay, Effingham48 min
Feb 19, 6:13 PM CSTTornado WarningILXFulton, Schuyler32 min
Feb 19, 6:20 PM CSTTornado WarningILXClay, Effingham, Jasper25 min
Feb 19, 6:38 PM CSTTornado WarningILXClay, Effingham, Jasper31 min
Feb 19, 6:47 PM CSTTornado WarningILXJasper43 min
Feb 19, 7:02 PM CSTTornado WarningILXJasper28 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.