Alert archive / Illinois / 1998
Weather alerts in Illinois, October 1998
17 weather alerts in October 1998, 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 October 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 17
- Warnings
- 16
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- October 29, 19989 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 4:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Henderson, Mercer, Rock Island | 6 hr |
| Oct 17, 4:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Bureau, Henry, Whiteside | 6 hr |
| Oct 17, 9:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Bureau, Henry, Whiteside | 4 hr |
| Oct 17, 9:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Henderson, Mercer, Rock Island | 4 hr |
| Oct 29, 12:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Brown | 32 min |
| Oct 29, 1:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass | 42 min |
| Oct 29, 1:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass | 50 min |
| Oct 29, 2:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Cass, Menard | 47 min |
| Oct 29, 3:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Menard | 60 min |
| Oct 29, 3:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 29, 4:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Moultrie | 51 min |
| Oct 29, 5:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun | 34 min |
| Oct 29, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Greene | 40 min |
| Oct 29, 6:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin | 48 min |
| Oct 29, 6:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 61 min |
| Oct 29, 7:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 44 min |
| Oct 29, 7:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin | 31 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 | 11 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cass County4
- Menard County3
- Macoupin County3
- Henderson County2
- Mercer County2
- Rock Island County2
- Bureau County2
- Henry County2
- Whiteside County2
- Brown County2
- Logan County2
- Calhoun County2
- Christian County2
- Greene County2
- Montgomery County2
- Moultrie County2
- Adams County1
- Bond County1
- Clinton County1
- DeWitt County1
- Fayette County1
- Fulton County1
- Hancock County1
- Jersey County1
- McDonough County1
- McLean County1
- Macon County1
- Madison County1
- Mason County1
- Monroe County1
- Morgan County1
- Piatt County1
- Pike County1
- Randolph County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Sangamon County1
- Schuyler County1
- Scott County1
- Shelby County1
- Washington 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.