Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings / 1998

Tornado Warnings in Illinois, May 1998

47 tornado warnings in May 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
47
Busiest day
May 13, 199817 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
May 6, 8:24 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXAdams31 min
May 12, 5:57 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXBrown63 min
May 12, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXBrown60 min
May 12, 6:02 PM CDTTornado WarningILXCass, Schuyler58 min
May 12, 6:26 PM CDTTornado WarningILXFulton64 min
May 12, 6:32 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTWinnebago43 min
May 12, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNMcDonough34 min
May 12, 6:55 PM CDTTornado WarningILXCass50 min
May 12, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMorgan, Scott60 min
May 12, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMenard57 min
May 12, 7:22 PM CDTTornado WarningILXSangamon53 min
May 12, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningILXFulton64 min
May 12, 7:43 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMason62 min
May 12, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WarningILXTazewell61 min
May 12, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMacoupin49 min
May 12, 8:36 PM CDTTornado WarningILXLogan, Mason, Menard69 min
May 12, 9:13 PM CDTTornado WarningILXSangamon47 min
May 12, 9:36 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChristian54 min
May 12, 9:40 PM CDTTornado WarningILXLogan50 min
May 12, 9:55 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMacon65 min
May 12, 10:08 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMontgomery47 min
May 12, 10:12 PM CDTTornado WarningILXShelby63 min
May 12, 10:38 PM CDTTornado WarningILXPiatt52 min
May 12, 11:25 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign65 min
May 13, 12:20 AM CDTTornado WarningILXVermilion55 min
May 15, 7:24 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJo Daviess36 min
May 15, 7:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry33 min
May 15, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNWhiteside50 min
May 15, 9:20 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTOgle, Winnebago50 min
May 19, 4:16 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTDeKalb, Kane44 min
May 19, 4:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNHenry34 min
May 19, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNBureau47 min
May 19, 5:19 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNMcDonough51 min
May 19, 5:42 PM CDTTornado WarningILXFulton, Knox, Peoria48 min
May 19, 6:33 PM CDTTornado WarningILXVermilion42 min
May 19, 8:51 PM CDTTornado WarningILXColes39 min
May 22, 2:59 AM CDTTornado WarningLSXPike51 min
May 22, 9:56 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChristian34 min
May 23, 6:09 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMonroe, Saint Clair51 min
May 23, 6:16 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMadison49 min
May 23, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXGreene50 min
May 23, 7:50 PM CDTTornado WarningILXShelby55 min
May 23, 8:19 PM CDTTornado WarningILXClay56 min
May 23, 8:27 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMarion33 min
May 23, 9:12 PM CDTTornado WarningILXClay, Effingham48 min
May 25, 4:29 AM CDTTornado WarningLSXRandolph46 min
May 28, 8:37 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNStephenson33 min

By county

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

2 more counties

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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.