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Tornado Warnings in Illinois, March 2026

38 tornado warnings in March 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 March 2026. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
38
Busiest day
March 15, 202613 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
Mar 7, 5:40 AM CSTTornado WarningPAHJackson21 min
Mar 10, 4:47 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTLivingston43 min
Mar 10, 6:16 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTKankakee44 min
Mar 10, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBureau, Henry45 min
Mar 10, 6:55 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatLOTKankakee35 min
Mar 10, 7:33 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMarshall, Stark27 min
Mar 10, 7:52 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMarshall38 min
Mar 10, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMarshall31 min
Mar 10, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNPutnam13 min
Mar 10, 8:36 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTLaSalle, Livingston18 min
Mar 10, 9:37 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBureau, Putnam20 min
Mar 10, 11:57 PM CDTTornado WarningILXFulton, Mason, Tazewell37 min
Mar 11, 5:05 AM CDTTornado WarningLSXSaint Clair, Washington25 min
Mar 11, 5:55 AM CDTTornado WarningILXCumberland, Effingham, Jasper21 min
Mar 15, 3:59 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXCalhoun, Jersey33 min
Mar 15, 5:05 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMadison, Saint Clair34 min
Mar 15, 5:19 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMonroe, Saint Clair47 min
Mar 15, 5:34 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMonroe, Randolph, Saint Clair34 min
Mar 15, 5:40 PM CDTTornado WarningILXLogan, Sangamon35 min
Mar 15, 5:50 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHPerry40 min
Mar 15, 5:54 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXClinton, Washington37 min
Mar 15, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WarningILXDeWitt, Logan, Macon45 min
Mar 15, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChristian, Macon, Moultrie, Shelby30 min
Mar 15, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHJackson, Union, Williamson48 min
Mar 15, 6:43 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign, Douglas, Moultrie, Piatt32 min
Mar 15, 6:54 PM CDTTornado WarningILXColes, Douglas, Moultrie36 min
Mar 15, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign, DeWitt, McLean, Piatt34 min
Mar 15, 7:04 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHUnion26 min
Mar 15, 7:09 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTFord21 min
Mar 15, 7:12 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign, Douglas, Vermilion23 min
Mar 15, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHFranklin, Williamson30 min
Mar 15, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHAlexander, Pulaski42 min
Mar 15, 7:22 PM CDTTornado WarningILXClay, Effingham, Jasper38 min
Mar 15, 7:34 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHJohnson, Pulaski, Union15 min
Mar 15, 7:36 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHAlexander, Johnson, Massac, Pulaski39 min
Mar 15, 7:52 PM CDTTornado WarningILXClark, Cumberland38 min
Mar 15, 7:56 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHJohnson, Massac, Pope28 min
Mar 15, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WarningILXClay, Richland30 min

By county

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

9 more counties

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.