Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2017
Tornado Watches in Illinois, February 2017
2 tornado watches in February 2017. 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 February 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- February 28, 20172 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 2:19 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Edwards, Fayette and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 28, 2:57 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Carroll, Cass and 63 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alexander County1
- Bond County1
- Calhoun County1
- Clinton County1
- Edwards County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Gallatin County1
- Greene County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Jersey County1
- Johnson County1
- Macoupin County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Massac County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Perry County1
- Pope County1
- Pulaski County1
- Randolph County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Saline County1
- Union County1
- Wabash County1
- Washington County1
- Wayne County1
- White County1
- Williamson County1
- Adams County1
- Boone County1
- Brown County1
- Bureau County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Champaign County1
62 more counties
- Christian County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Coles County1
- Cook County1
- Crawford County1
- Cumberland County1
- DeKalb County1
- DeWitt County1
- Douglas County1
- DuPage County1
- Edgar County1
- Effingham County1
- Ford County1
- Fulton County1
- Grundy County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Henry County1
- Iroquois County1
- Jasper County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Kane County1
- Kankakee County1
- Kendall County1
- Knox County1
- Lake County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lawrence County1
- Lee County1
- Livingston County1
- Logan County1
- McDonough County1
- McHenry County1
- McLean County1
- Macon County1
- Marshall County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Mercer County1
- Morgan County1
- Moultrie County1
- Ogle County1
- Peoria County1
- Piatt County1
- Pike County1
- Putnam County1
- Richland County1
- Rock Island County1
- Sangamon County1
- Schuyler County1
- Scott County1
- Shelby County1
- Stark County1
- Stephenson County1
- Tazewell County1
- Vermilion County1
- Warren County1
- Whiteside County1
- Will County1
- Winnebago County1
- Woodford 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.