Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2023
Tornado Watches in Illinois, February 2023
3 tornado watches in February 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 February 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- February 16, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 4:51 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Massac, Pulaski | 7 hr |
| Feb 22, 12:20 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 44 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 27, 10:06 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar and 2 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alexander County2
- Massac County2
- Pulaski County2
- Champaign County2
- Clark County2
- Coles County2
- Cumberland County2
- Douglas County2
- Edgar County2
- Vermilion County2
- Bond County1
- Calhoun County1
- Christian County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Crawford County1
- Effingham County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Hamilton County1
- Jackson County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Jersey County1
- Johnson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Macon County1
- Macoupin County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Moultrie County1
- Perry County1
- Piatt County1
- Pike County1
- Pope County1
- Randolph 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.