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Tornado Warnings in Illinois, December 2018

26 tornado warnings in December 2018. 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 December 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings: 26
Busiest day: December 1, 201821 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
Dec 1, 2:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LSX	Pike	25 min
Dec 1, 2:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Cass, Morgan, Scott	41 min
Dec 1, 3:04 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Schuyler	11 min
Dec 1, 3:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DVN	McDonough	25 min
Dec 1, 3:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Cass, Mason, Schuyler	51 min
Dec 1, 3:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DVN	McDonough	33 min
Dec 1, 3:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton, Mason, Schuyler	43 min
Dec 1, 3:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Knox, Peoria	38 min
Dec 1, 4:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DVN	McDonough, Warren	30 min
Dec 1, 4:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LSX	Macoupin, Montgomery	37 min
Dec 1, 4:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton, Mason, Peoria, Tazewell	38 min
Dec 1, 4:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LSX	Montgomery	17 min
Dec 1, 4:32 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	LSX	Montgomery	28 min
Dec 1, 4:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Christian	38 min
Dec 1, 4:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Christian	51 min
Dec 1, 4:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Mason	48 min
Dec 1, 4:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LSX	Montgomery	14 min
Dec 1, 4:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Fulton, Peoria	37 min
Dec 1, 5:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	Mason, Tazewell	48 min
Dec 1, 5:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threat	ILX	Christian	30 min
Dec 1, 5:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	ILX	Christian, Macon	32 min
Dec 1, 6:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	DeWitt, Macon	32 min
Dec 1, 6:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILX	DeWitt, McLean	33 min
Dec 1, 7:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	ILX	McLean	32 min
Dec 1, 7:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	ILX	McLean	28 min
Dec 31, 11:56 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Massac, Pope	16 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. Rebuilt daily.