Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, August 2008
56 severe thunderstorm warnings in August 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 56
- Busiest day
- August 5, 200831 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 3, 7:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Knox | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 7:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Carroll, Whiteside | 50 min |
| Aug 4, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jo Daviess | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Carroll | 38 min |
| Aug 4, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Whiteside | 50 min |
| Aug 4, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lee, Ogle, Winnebago | 79 min |
| Aug 4, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Stephenson | 23 min |
| Aug 4, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Carroll | 26 min |
| Aug 4, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DeKalb, Kane, Kendall, Lee, Ogle | 62 min |
| Aug 4, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Stephenson | 15 min |
| Aug 4, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Whiteside | 27 min |
| Aug 4, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Boone, Cook, DuPage, Grundy, Kendall, Lake and 4 more | 72 min |
| Aug 4, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DeKalb, LaSalle, Lee | 57 min |
| Aug 4, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, Kankakee, Will | 76 min |
| Aug 4, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Grundy, Kendall, LaSalle, Will | 39 min |
| Aug 4, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, Kane, Lake, McHenry | 61 min |
| Aug 4, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, DuPage | 61 min |
| Aug 5, 3:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henderson, Mercer, Rock Island, Warren | 72 min |
| Aug 5, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Knox, Marshall, Peoria, Stark, Tazewell and 1 more | 53 min |
| Aug 5, 4:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Bureau, Henry, Putnam | 73 min |
| Aug 5, 4:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | LaSalle, Lee | 50 min |
| Aug 5, 4:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean, Mason, Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford | 48 min |
| Aug 5, 4:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Grundy, Kendall, LaSalle | 63 min |
| Aug 5, 5:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, McLean | 24 min |
| Aug 5, 5:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee, Livingston | 49 min |
| Aug 5, 6:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry, Mercer, Rock Island | 22 min |
| Aug 5, 6:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Mercer | 40 min |
| Aug 5, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams, Pike | 46 min |
| Aug 5, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 49 min |
| Aug 5, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams, Pike | 46 min |
| Aug 5, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hamilton, Wayne, White | 48 min |
| Aug 5, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | White | 43 min |
| Aug 5, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 40 min |
| Aug 5, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Randolph | 42 min |
| Aug 5, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Pike | 46 min |
| Aug 5, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun | 42 min |
| Aug 5, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Morgan, Scott | 65 min |
| Aug 5, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Pike | 60 min |
| Aug 5, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison, Saint Clair | 51 min |
| Aug 5, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Randolph | 61 min |
| Aug 5, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Macoupin, Madison, Montgomery and 2 more | 65 min |
| Aug 5, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian, Macon, Sangamon, Shelby | 66 min |
| Aug 5, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette, Montgomery | 51 min |
| Aug 5, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette, Marion | 42 min |
| Aug 5, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Clay, Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper, Richland and 1 more | 63 min |
| Aug 5, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Saint Clair, Washington | 13 min |
| Aug 5, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Madison, Marion, Monroe and 3 more | 64 min |
| Aug 5, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash, Wayne | 47 min |
| Aug 5, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 42 min |
| Aug 5, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Wayne, White | 39 min |
| Aug 5, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Clay, Crawford, Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper and 2 more | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Rock Island | 37 min |
| Aug 13, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Carroll, Jo Daviess | 25 min |
| Aug 28, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams, Pike | 53 min |
| Aug 28, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Brown, Calhoun, Greene, Pike | 42 min |
| Aug 28, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Greene, Jersey | 43 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pike County8
- LaSalle County5
- Calhoun County5
- Carroll County4
- Lee County4
- Kendall County4
- Cook County4
- Greene County4
- Saint Clair County4
- Monroe County4
- Fayette County4
- Whiteside County3
- Grundy County3
- Will County3
- Mercer County3
- Rock Island County3
- Adams County3
- Wayne County3
- White County3
- Randolph County3
- Jersey County3
- Madison County3
- Washington County3
- Knox County2
- Jo Daviess County2
- Ogle County2
- Winnebago County2
- Stephenson County2
- DeKalb County2
- Kane County2
- DuPage County2
- Lake County2
- McHenry County2
- Kankakee County2
- Peoria County2
- Tazewell County2
- Woodford County2
- Henry County2
- McLean County2
- Hamilton County2
38 more counties
- Macoupin County2
- Bond County2
- Clinton County2
- Montgomery County2
- Shelby County2
- Marion County2
- Clark County2
- Clay County2
- Cumberland County2
- Effingham County2
- Jasper County2
- Richland County2
- Boone County1
- Henderson County1
- Warren County1
- Fulton County1
- Marshall County1
- Stark County1
- Bureau County1
- Putnam County1
- Mason County1
- Champaign County1
- Ford County1
- Iroquois County1
- Livingston County1
- Cass County1
- Morgan County1
- Scott County1
- Christian County1
- Macon County1
- Sangamon County1
- Edwards County1
- Wabash County1
- Franklin County1
- Jefferson County1
- Crawford County1
- Lawrence County1
- Brown 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.