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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXHancock, Henderson37 min
May 8, 3:59 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNMercer, Rock Island46 min
May 8, 4:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNHenry, Whiteside67 min
May 8, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXKnox, Warren23 min
May 8, 4:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNJo Daviess44 min
May 8, 4:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBrown, Pike, Scott41 min
May 8, 4:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNRock Island, Whiteside34 min
May 8, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WarningILXCarroll, Ogle32 min
May 8, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXCass, Morgan58 min
May 8, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCalhoun37 min
May 8, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXFulton, Mason63 min
May 8, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNHenry27 min
May 8, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXStephenson40 min
May 8, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNWhiteside30 min
May 8, 5:21 PM CDTTornado WarningILXLee, Ogle39 min
May 8, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXPeoria, Tazewell, Woodford38 min
May 8, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJersey49 min
May 8, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WarningILXOgle, Winnebago33 min
May 8, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTLaSalle, Livingston63 min
May 8, 5:46 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMenard29 min
May 8, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMcLean, Woodford58 min
May 8, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMadison42 min
May 8, 5:51 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMorgan39 min
May 8, 5:51 PM CDTTornado WarningILXDeKalb, Lee54 min
May 8, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXLogan, Menard, Sangamon64 min
May 8, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMacoupin, Montgomery64 min
May 8, 6:05 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMenard, Sangamon25 min
May 8, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMontgomery33 min
May 8, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMadison, Monroe, Saint Clair47 min
May 8, 6:16 PM CDTTornado WarningILXBoone, Winnebago44 min
May 8, 6:24 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChristian, DeWitt, Macon, Shelby66 min
May 8, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTKane48 min
May 8, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTFord, Grundy, Livingston52 min
May 8, 6:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXRandolph36 min
May 8, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTKankakee, Will45 min
May 8, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTDuPage, Kendall45 min
May 8, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBond, Clinton35 min
May 8, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXWashington35 min
May 8, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTIroquois, Kankakee64 min
May 8, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTCook, Will64 min
May 8, 7:03 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign, Piatt27 min
May 8, 7:28 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTCook32 min
May 8, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXRandolph45 min
May 8, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJefferson, Perry, Washington45 min
May 8, 7:33 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign, Douglas, Edgar, Vermilion42 min
May 15, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTCook, Will64 min
May 22, 7:58 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHPulaski32 min

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

ProductAlerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning30
Tornado Warning17

By county

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

24 more counties

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.