Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2023
Tornado Watches in Illinois, March 2023
6 tornado watches in March 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 March 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- March 31, 20234 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 6:24 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hardin, Massac, Pope | 7 hr |
| Mar 3, 11:07 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gallatin, Saline, White | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 11:46 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 36 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 14 more | 11 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 21 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hardin County2
- Massac County2
- Pope County2
- Gallatin County2
- Saline County2
- White County2
- Christian County2
- Macon County2
- Moultrie County2
- Piatt County2
- Shelby County2
- Adams County1
- Brown County1
- Bureau County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- DeWitt County1
- Fulton County1
- Greene County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Henry County1
- Jersey County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Knox County1
- Logan County1
- McDonough County1
- McLean County1
- Macoupin County1
- Marshall County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Mercer County1
- Morgan County1
- Peoria County1
- Pike County1
- Putnam County1
- Rock Island County1
- Sangamon County1
62 more counties
- Schuyler County1
- Scott County1
- Stark County1
- Stephenson County1
- Tazewell County1
- Warren County1
- Whiteside County1
- Woodford County1
- Alexander County1
- Bond County1
- Clinton County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Perry County1
- Pulaski County1
- Randolph County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Union County1
- Washington County1
- Williamson County1
- Boone County1
- Cook County1
- DeKalb County1
- DuPage County1
- Ford County1
- Grundy County1
- Iroquois County1
- Kane County1
- Kankakee County1
- Kendall County1
- Lake County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lee County1
- Livingston County1
- McHenry County1
- Ogle County1
- Will County1
- Winnebago County1
- Champaign County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Coles County1
- Crawford County1
- Cumberland County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Edwards County1
- Effingham County1
- Hamilton County1
- Jasper County1
- Lawrence County1
- Richland County1
- Vermilion County1
- Wabash County1
- Wayne County1
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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.