Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings / 2008

Tornado Warnings in Illinois, May 2008

38 tornado warnings in May 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
38
Busiest day
May 30, 200820 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 2, 9:22 AM CDTTornado WarningILXChristian23 min
May 10, 8:34 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXRandolph26 min
May 25, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXRandolph33 min
May 25, 5:37 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHJackson, Perry53 min
May 25, 6:31 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHJackson59 min
May 25, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHJackson, Williamson60 min
May 25, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJo Daviess20 min
May 25, 8:31 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHWilliamson15 min
May 25, 8:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJo Daviess64 min
May 25, 9:44 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHUnion25 min
May 27, 12:31 PM CDTTornado WarningILXRichland29 min
May 30, 3:03 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMcLean27 min
May 30, 4:07 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXAdams, Brown, Pike38 min
May 30, 4:14 PM CDTTornado WarningILXCass, Mason, Menard31 min
May 30, 4:25 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMorgan, Scott50 min
May 30, 4:36 PM CDTTornado WarningILXLogan24 min
May 30, 4:36 PM CDTTornado WarningILXVermilion12 min
May 30, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXPike12 min
May 30, 4:59 PM CDTTornado WarningILXDeWitt, Logan, Macon46 min
May 30, 5:09 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXPike21 min
May 30, 5:14 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMorgan, Scott46 min
May 30, 5:19 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXPike41 min
May 30, 5:41 PM CDTTornado WarningILXSangamon49 min
May 30, 5:56 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXPike49 min
May 30, 6:05 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign40 min
May 30, 6:11 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMorgan, Scott49 min
May 30, 6:24 PM CDTTornado WarningILXVermilion36 min
May 30, 6:32 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChristian, Macon, Sangamon43 min
May 30, 6:44 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChampaign, Douglas, Edgar, Vermilion31 min
May 30, 6:58 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMorgan, Sangamon47 min
May 30, 6:59 PM CDTTornado WarningILXVermilion35 min
May 30, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningILXEdgar, Vermilion33 min
May 30, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChristian, Sangamon45 min
May 30, 7:38 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMontgomery37 min
May 30, 7:40 PM CDTTornado WarningILXDouglas, Moultrie, Piatt35 min
May 30, 7:52 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChristian38 min
May 30, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WarningILXChristian, Shelby47 min
May 30, 8:37 PM CDTTornado WarningILXMoultrie, Shelby23 min

By county

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

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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.