Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Illinois, March 1997
3 tornado watches in March 1997. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in March 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- March 28, 19972 tornado watches
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 1, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski | 7 hr |
| Mar 28, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 44 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Lawrence, Wabash | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Johnson County2
- Massac County2
- Pope County2
- Pulaski County2
- Crawford County2
- Lawrence County2
- Wabash County2
- Alexander County1
- Bond County1
- Christian County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Coles County1
- Cumberland County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Edwards County1
- Effingham County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Gallatin County1
- Greene County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Jackson County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Jersey County1
- Macon County1
- Macoupin County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Moultrie County1
- Perry County1
- Randolph County1
- Richland County1
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.