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Tornado Warnings in Illinois, 1989

30 tornado warnings in 1989. 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 1989. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
30
Busiest month
May10 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 25, 19895 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
Jan 7, 5:09 PM CSTTornado WarningINDEdwards, White51 min
Jan 7, 5:41 PM CSTTornado WarningINDWabash34 min
Jan 7, 5:41 PM CSTTornado WarningINDLawrence34 min
Mar 17, 6:39 PM CSTTornado WarningILXDeWitt, Macon, Piatt36 min
Apr 3, 4:57 PM CDTTornado WarningINDWabash33 min
Apr 26, 10:32 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXGreene28 min
May 19, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign, Douglas30 min
May 19, 4:32 PM CDTTornado WarningINDCrawford23 min
May 19, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMacon27 min
May 19, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign, Douglas, Piatt50 min
May 24, 11:12 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNRock Island18 min
May 25, 1:54 AM CDTTornado WarningILXSangamon36 min
May 25, 2:38 AM CDTTornado WarningILXDeWitt, Logan37 min
May 25, 2:33 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXEffingham, Fayette27 min
May 25, 6:04 PM CDTTornado WarningILXSangamon26 min
May 25, 7:19 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMacon, Moultrie26 min
Jun 3, 2:16 PM CDTTornado WarningILXColes29 min
Jun 5, 1:14 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTDuPage, Kane, Kendall, Will61 min
Jul 11, 4:38 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTKankakee52 min
Jul 19, 12:37 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign, Edgar, Vermilion38 min
Jul 19, 2:42 PM CDTTornado WarningILXColes, Edgar33 min
Jul 19, 7:47 PM CDTTornado WarningILXEdgar, Vermilion28 min
Jul 22, 6:21 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMacon24 min
Jul 24, 8:17 PM CDTTornado WarningINDWayne43 min
Aug 5, 1:27 AM CDTTornado WarningLOTCook, Will63 min
Aug 29, 2:15 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign, Vermilion30 min
Sep 8, 3:10 PM CDTTornado WarningILXDeWitt, Logan, Macon35 min
Sep 8, 3:53 PM CDTTornado WarningILXDeWitt, Macon, Piatt37 min
Sep 8, 4:47 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign, Piatt28 min
Sep 8, 5:19 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign, Vermilion41 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 25, 19895tornado warnings
  2. September 8, 19894tornado warnings
  3. January 7, 19893tornado warnings
  4. May 19, 19892tornado warnings
  5. May 20, 19892tornado warnings
  6. July 19, 19892tornado warnings
  7. March 18, 19891tornado warnings
  8. April 3, 19891tornado warnings
  9. April 27, 19891tornado warnings
  10. May 26, 19891tornado warnings
  11. June 3, 19891tornado warnings
  12. June 5, 19891tornado warnings

Nearby

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19881990

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.