Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, August 1998
16 severe thunderstorm warnings in August 1998. 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 August 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 16
- Busiest day
- August 24, 199811 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox, Peoria, Stark | 50 min |
| Aug 4, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria | 56 min |
| Aug 4, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette, Montgomery | 49 min |
| Aug 18, 2:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 37 min |
| Aug 24, 11:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jo Daviess | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 12:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Carroll | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 12:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Stephenson | 32 min |
| Aug 24, 12:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ogle, Winnebago | 51 min |
| Aug 24, 12:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lee | 55 min |
| Aug 24, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kane, McHenry | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, DuPage, Kendall, Will | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lake | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Will | 51 min |
| Aug 24, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kankakee | 54 min |
| Aug 24, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Vermilion | 50 min |
| Aug 24, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Boone, Winnebago | 60 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Peoria County2
- Winnebago County2
- Will County2
- Knox County1
- Stark County1
- Fayette County1
- Montgomery County1
- Sangamon County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Carroll County1
- Stephenson County1
- Ogle County1
- Lee County1
- Kane County1
- McHenry County1
- Cook County1
- DuPage County1
- Kendall County1
- Lake County1
- Kankakee County1
- Champaign County1
- Vermilion County1
- Boone County1
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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.