Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, August 1998
2 severe thunderstorm watches 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- August 24, 19981 severe thunderstorm watches
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 24, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Jo Daviess and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 25 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Boone County2
- Carroll County2
- Cook County2
- DeKalb County2
- DuPage County2
- Jo Daviess County2
- Kane County2
- Kendall County2
- Lake County2
- Lee County2
- McHenry County2
- Ogle County2
- Stephenson County2
- Whiteside County2
- Will County2
- Winnebago County2
- Bureau County1
- Grundy County1
- Henderson County1
- Henry County1
- Kankakee County1
- Knox County1
- LaSalle County1
- Livingston County1
- Marshall County1
- Mercer County1
- Peoria County1
- Putnam County1
- Rock Island County1
- Stark County1
- Warren 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.