Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, April 1988
40 severe thunderstorm warnings in April 1988. 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 severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 40
- Busiest day
- April 6, 198817 severe thunderstorm warnings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Carroll | 45 min |
| Apr 5, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Warren | 57 min |
| Apr 5, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox, Warren | 43 min |
| Apr 5, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Stephenson, Winnebago | 52 min |
| Apr 5, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun | 43 min |
| Apr 5, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jersey | 43 min |
| Apr 5, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry | 36 min |
| Apr 5, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Bureau | 60 min |
| Apr 5, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jersey, Madison | 44 min |
| Apr 5, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Sangamon | 60 min |
| Apr 5, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike, Scott | 25 min |
| Apr 5, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Saint Clair | 45 min |
| Apr 5, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 41 min |
| Apr 5, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Tazewell, Woodford | 51 min |
| Apr 5, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Marshall | 67 min |
| Apr 5, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean, Woodford | 67 min |
| Apr 5, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Bureau, Putnam | 40 min |
| Apr 5, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon, Shelby | 58 min |
| Apr 5, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, Kankakee, Will | 56 min |
| Apr 5, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DuPage, Kane | 56 min |
| Apr 5, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | McHenry | 56 min |
| Apr 22, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Greene | 45 min |
| Apr 22, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macoupin, Sangamon | 67 min |
| Apr 22, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Montgomery | 67 min |
| Apr 22, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook | 29 min |
| Apr 22, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 62 min |
| Apr 22, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, Lake | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette | 36 min |
| Apr 22, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McDonough | 49 min |
| Apr 22, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Moultrie | 59 min |
| Apr 22, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cumberland | 59 min |
| Apr 22, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Edgar | 55 min |
| Apr 22, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Carroll | 38 min |
| Apr 22, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 37 min |
| Apr 22, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Lee, Ogle | 38 min |
| Apr 22, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Woodford | 26 min |
| Apr 22, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Livingston | 43 min |
| Apr 22, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois | 48 min |
| Apr 22, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kankakee | 33 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Woodford County3
- Cook County3
- Pike County2
- Carroll County2
- Warren County2
- Jersey County2
- Bureau County2
- Sangamon County2
- Tazewell County2
- Christian County2
- Kankakee County2
- Knox County1
- Stephenson County1
- Winnebago County1
- Calhoun County1
- Henry County1
- Madison County1
- Logan County1
- Scott County1
- Monroe County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Marshall County1
- McLean County1
- Putnam County1
- Macon County1
- Shelby County1
- Will County1
- DuPage County1
- Kane County1
- McHenry County1
- Greene County1
- Macoupin County1
- Montgomery County1
- Lake County1
- Fayette County1
- McDonough County1
- Coles County1
- Moultrie County1
- Cumberland County1
- Clark County1
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19871989
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.