Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings / 1988
Tornado Warnings in Illinois, May 1988
17 tornado warnings in May 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 May 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 17
- Busiest day
- May 8, 198813 tornado 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Mercer, Rock Island | 46 min |
| May 8, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Rock Island, Whiteside | 34 min |
| May 8, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Carroll, Ogle | 32 min |
| May 8, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Lee, Ogle | 39 min |
| May 8, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Ogle, Winnebago | 33 min |
| May 8, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Menard | 29 min |
| May 8, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Morgan | 39 min |
| May 8, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeKalb, Lee | 54 min |
| May 8, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Menard, Sangamon | 25 min |
| May 8, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Montgomery | 33 min |
| May 8, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Boone, Winnebago | 44 min |
| May 8, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian, DeWitt, Macon, Shelby | 66 min |
| May 8, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Kane | 48 min |
| May 8, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign, Piatt | 27 min |
| May 8, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Cook | 32 min |
| May 8, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign, Douglas, Edgar, Vermilion | 42 min |
| May 22, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Pulaski | 32 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ogle County3
- Rock Island County2
- Lee County2
- Winnebago County2
- Menard County2
- Champaign County2
- Mercer County1
- Whiteside County1
- Carroll County1
- Morgan County1
- DeKalb County1
- Sangamon County1
- Montgomery County1
- Boone County1
- Christian County1
- DeWitt County1
- Macon County1
- Shelby County1
- Kane County1
- Piatt County1
- Cook County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Vermilion County1
- Pulaski 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. Rebuilt daily.