Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings / 1989

Tornado Warnings in Illinois, July 1989

6 tornado warnings in July 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 July 1989. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
6
Busiest day
July 19, 19892 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
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

By county

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

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.