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Tornado Watches in Illinois, 2023

19 tornado watches in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
19
Busiest month
March6 tornado watches
Busiest day
March 31, 20234 tornado watches

Over time

By month

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 16, 4:51 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Massac, Pulaski7 hr
Feb 22, 12:20 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Bond, Calhoun, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 44 more5 hr
Feb 27, 10:06 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCChampaign, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar and 2 more5 hr
Mar 3, 6:24 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCHardin, Massac, Pope7 hr
Mar 3, 11:07 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCGallatin, Saline, White4 hr
Mar 31, 11:46 AM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAdams, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 36 more8 hr
Mar 31, 12:28 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAlexander, Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 14 more11 hr
Mar 31, 2:36 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy and 12 more7 hr
Mar 31, 6:59 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChampaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 21 more7 hr
Apr 4, 2:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, Fulton, Hancock and 18 more7 hr
Apr 5, 1:32 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Franklin, Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson and 9 more9 hr
Apr 5, 8:44 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more7 hr
Apr 15, 4:03 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Franklin and 15 more6 hr
Apr 20, 2:06 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 31 more6 hr
May 6, 9:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Pike5 hr
Jul 12, 3:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane and 10 more5 hr
Aug 5, 4:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland5 hr
Aug 6, 3:16 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 45 more9 hr
Aug 6, 8:37 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFranklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Jackson, Saline, White and 1 more7 hr

By county

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

62 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 31, 20234tornado watches
  2. March 3, 20232tornado watches
  3. April 5, 20232tornado watches
  4. February 16, 20231tornado watches
  5. February 22, 20231tornado watches
  6. February 27, 20231tornado watches
  7. April 4, 20231tornado watches
  8. April 15, 20231tornado watches
  9. April 20, 20231tornado watches
  10. May 7, 20231tornado watches
  11. July 12, 20231tornado watches
  12. August 5, 20231tornado watches

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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.