Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings / 1989

Tornado Warnings in Illinois, May 1989

10 tornado warnings in May 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 May 1989. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings: 10
Busiest day: May 25, 19895 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 19, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign, Douglas	30 min
May 19, 4:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Crawford	23 min
May 19, 7:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Macon	27 min
May 19, 8:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign, Douglas, Piatt	50 min
May 24, 11:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Rock Island	18 min
May 25, 1:54 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Sangamon	36 min
May 25, 2:38 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Logan	37 min
May 25, 2:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Effingham, Fayette	27 min
May 25, 6:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Sangamon	26 min
May 25, 7:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Macon, Moultrie	26 min

By county

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

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 1988 1990

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.