Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2017
Tornado Watches in Illinois, March 2017
5 tornado watches in March 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 March 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- March 1, 20174 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, 8:29 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 12 hr |
| Feb 28, 9:04 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 28, 9:51 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles and 37 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:03 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 6, 8:52 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll and 38 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alexander County2
- Edwards County2
- Franklin County2
- Gallatin County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Massac County2
- Perry County2
- Pope County2
- Pulaski County2
- Saline County2
- Union County2
- Wabash County2
- Wayne County2
- White County2
- Williamson County2
- Adams County2
- Bond County2
- Brown County2
- Calhoun County2
- Clinton County2
- Fayette County2
- Greene County2
- Jersey County2
- Macoupin County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pike County2
- Randolph County2
- Saint Clair County2
- Washington County2
- Cass County2
- Fulton County2
- Marshall County2
- Mason County2
53 more counties
- Menard County2
- Morgan County2
- Peoria County2
- Sangamon County2
- Schuyler County2
- Scott County2
- Stark County2
- Tazewell County2
- Woodford County2
- Champaign County1
- Christian County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Coles County1
- Cook County1
- Crawford County1
- Cumberland County1
- DeWitt County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Effingham County1
- Ford County1
- Grundy County1
- Iroquois County1
- Jasper County1
- Kankakee County1
- Kendall County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lawrence County1
- Livingston County1
- Logan County1
- McLean County1
- Macon County1
- Moultrie County1
- Piatt County1
- Richland County1
- Shelby County1
- Vermilion County1
- Will County1
- Bureau County1
- Carroll County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Henry County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Knox County1
- McDonough County1
- Mercer County1
- Putnam County1
- Rock Island County1
- Stephenson County1
- Warren County1
- Whiteside 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.