Alert archive / Illinois / 1988
Weather alerts in Illinois, May 1988
47 weather alerts in May 1988, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 47
- Warnings
- 47
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 8, 198840 alerts
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Hancock, Henderson | 37 min |
| May 8, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Mercer, Rock Island | 46 min |
| May 8, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry, Whiteside | 67 min |
| May 8, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox, Warren | 23 min |
| May 8, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jo Daviess | 44 min |
| May 8, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Brown, Pike, Scott | 41 min |
| May 8, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Rock Island, Whiteside | 34 min |
| May 8, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Carroll, Ogle | 32 min |
| May 8, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Morgan | 58 min |
| May 8, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun | 37 min |
| May 8, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Mason | 63 min |
| May 8, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry | 27 min |
| May 8, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Stephenson | 40 min |
| May 8, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Whiteside | 30 min |
| May 8, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Lee, Ogle | 39 min |
| May 8, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford | 38 min |
| May 8, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jersey | 49 min |
| May 8, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Ogle, Winnebago | 33 min |
| May 8, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | LaSalle, Livingston | 63 min |
| May 8, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Menard | 29 min |
| May 8, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean, Woodford | 58 min |
| May 8, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison | 42 min |
| May 8, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Morgan | 39 min |
| May 8, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeKalb, Lee | 54 min |
| May 8, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Menard, Sangamon | 64 min |
| May 8, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macoupin, Montgomery | 64 min |
| May 8, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Menard, Sangamon | 25 min |
| May 8, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Montgomery | 33 min |
| May 8, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison, Monroe, Saint Clair | 47 min |
| May 8, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Boone, Winnebago | 44 min |
| May 8, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian, DeWitt, Macon, Shelby | 66 min |
| May 8, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Kane | 48 min |
| May 8, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ford, Grundy, Livingston | 52 min |
| May 8, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Randolph | 36 min |
| May 8, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kankakee, Will | 45 min |
| May 8, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DuPage, Kendall | 45 min |
| May 8, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond, Clinton | 35 min |
| May 8, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 35 min |
| May 8, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Iroquois, Kankakee | 64 min |
| May 8, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, Will | 64 min |
| May 8, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign, Piatt | 27 min |
| May 8, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Cook | 32 min |
| May 8, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Randolph | 45 min |
| May 8, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Perry, Washington | 45 min |
| May 8, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas, Edgar, Vermilion | 42 min |
| May 15, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, Will | 64 min |
| May 22, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Pulaski | 32 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 30 |
| Tornado Warning | 17 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Whiteside County3
- Ogle County3
- Menard County3
- Will County3
- Cook County3
- Rock Island County2
- Henry County2
- Morgan County2
- Lee County2
- Woodford County2
- Winnebago County2
- Livingston County2
- Madison County2
- Sangamon County2
- Montgomery County2
- Randolph County2
- Kankakee County2
- Washington County2
- Champaign County2
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Mercer County1
- Knox County1
- Warren County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Brown County1
- Pike County1
- Scott County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Calhoun County1
- Fulton County1
- Mason County1
- Stephenson County1
- Peoria County1
- Tazewell County1
- Jersey County1
- LaSalle County1
- McLean County1
- DeKalb County1
24 more counties
- Logan County1
- Macoupin County1
- Monroe County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Boone County1
- Christian County1
- DeWitt County1
- Macon County1
- Shelby County1
- Kane County1
- Ford County1
- Grundy County1
- DuPage County1
- Kendall County1
- Bond County1
- Clinton County1
- Iroquois County1
- Piatt County1
- Jefferson County1
- Perry County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Vermilion County1
- Pulaski 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.