Alert archive / Illinois / Cook County

Weather alerts in Cook County, Illinois, 1988

13 weather alerts in 1988, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Cook County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1988. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
13
Warnings
13
Watches
0
Advisories
0
Busiest month
April3 alerts
Busiest day
April 22, 19882 alerts

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 5, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT56 min
Apr 22, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT29 min
Apr 22, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT32 min
May 8, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT64 min
May 8, 7:28 PM CDTTornado WarningLOT32 min
May 15, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT64 min
Aug 8, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT63 min
Aug 15, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT30 min
Aug 18, 4:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT51 min
Sep 22, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT18 min
Sep 22, 10:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT25 min
Nov 14, 11:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT69 min
Nov 15, 11:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOT69 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 Warning12
Tornado Warning1

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 22, 19882alerts
  2. September 23, 19882alerts
  3. April 6, 19881alerts
  4. May 8, 19881alerts
  5. May 9, 19881alerts
  6. May 15, 19881alerts
  7. August 9, 19881alerts
  8. August 15, 19881alerts
  9. August 18, 19881alerts
  10. November 15, 19881alerts

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.