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Tornado Warnings in Illinois, 1988

29 tornado warnings in 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

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

Tornado Warnings
29
Busiest month
May17 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 8, 198813 tornado warnings

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 2, 5:07 PM CSTTornado WarningILXLee38 min
Apr 22, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChristian, Montgomery33 min
Apr 22, 6:51 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXEffingham, Fayette54 min
Apr 22, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningILXShelby37 min
Apr 22, 7:42 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXEffingham18 min
May 8, 3:59 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNMercer, Rock Island46 min
May 8, 4:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNRock Island, Whiteside34 min
May 8, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WarningILXCarroll, Ogle32 min
May 8, 5:21 PM CDTTornado WarningILXLee, Ogle39 min
May 8, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WarningILXOgle, Winnebago33 min
May 8, 5:46 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMenard29 min
May 8, 5:51 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMorgan39 min
May 8, 5:51 PM CDTTornado WarningILXDeKalb, Lee54 min
May 8, 6:05 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMenard, Sangamon25 min
May 8, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMontgomery33 min
May 8, 6:16 PM CDTTornado WarningILXBoone, Winnebago44 min
May 8, 6:24 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChristian, DeWitt, Macon, Shelby66 min
May 8, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTKane48 min
May 8, 7:03 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign, Piatt27 min
May 8, 7:28 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTCook32 min
May 8, 7:33 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign, Douglas, Edgar, Vermilion42 min
May 22, 7:58 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHPulaski32 min
Oct 17, 9:21 AM CDTTornado WarningILXMarshall, Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford49 min
Nov 15, 8:34 PM CSTTornado WarningLSXCalhoun41 min
Nov 15, 9:46 PM CSTTornado WarningILXLogan, Menard, Sangamon29 min
Nov 15, 10:20 PM CSTTornado WarningILXTazewell45 min
Nov 15, 10:21 PM CSTTornado WarningILXDeWitt, Logan, Macon39 min
Nov 15, 10:21 PM CSTTornado WarningILXSangamon39 min
Nov 16, 12:13 AM CSTTornado WarningLOTIroquois, Kankakee, Will32 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 8, 198813tornado warnings
  2. November 16, 19886tornado warnings
  3. May 9, 19883tornado warnings
  4. April 22, 19882tornado warnings
  5. April 23, 19882tornado warnings
  6. April 2, 19881tornado warnings
  7. May 23, 19881tornado warnings
  8. October 17, 19881tornado warnings

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.