Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2023
Tornado Watches in Illinois, August 2023
3 tornado watches in August 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 August 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- August 5, 20231 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland | 5 hr |
| Aug 6, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 45 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 6, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Jackson, Saline, White and 1 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clark County2
- Crawford County2
- Jasper County2
- Lawrence County2
- Richland County2
- Franklin County2
- Hamilton County2
- White County2
- Adams County1
- Bond County1
- Brown County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cass County1
- Christian County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Coles County1
- Cumberland County1
- Edwards County1
- Effingham County1
- Fayette County1
- Fulton County1
- Greene County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Jersey County1
- Logan County1
- McDonough County1
- Macon County1
- Macoupin County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Moultrie County1
- Perry 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.