Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Illinois, April 1998
17 tornado watches in April 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 17
- Busiest day
- April 8, 19983 tornado watches
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 12:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Massac, Pulaski | 6 hr |
| Apr 7, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, Christian, DeWitt, Fulton and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 7, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Crawford and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 7, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 7, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Crawford, Cumberland, Edwards, Effingham, Franklin and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gallatin, Hardin, Massac, Pope, Saline | 7 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Randolph | 6 hr |
| Apr 13, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 13, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 34 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 13, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gallatin, Hardin | 4 hr |
| Apr 15, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Clay, Clinton, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 15, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Madison, Monroe, Saint Clair | 4 hr |
| Apr 15, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Lawrence, Wabash | 5 hr |
| Apr 15, 11:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 25, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Hancock | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Pulaski | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Massac County5
- Pulaski County5
- Franklin County5
- Hamilton County5
- Jackson County5
- Jefferson County5
- Lawrence County5
- Madison County5
- Perry County5
- Wabash County5
- Washington County5
- White County5
- Gallatin County5
- Monroe County5
- Christian County4
- Clay County4
- Clinton County4
- Crawford County4
- Edwards County4
- Marion County4
- Richland County4
- Wayne County4
- Pope County4
- Saline County4
- Randolph County4
- Saint Clair County4
- Alexander County4
- Adams County3
- Cass County3
- Fulton County3
- Hancock County3
- Knox County3
- Livingston County3
- McLean County3
- Marshall County3
- Menard County3
- Morgan County3
- Peoria County3
- Putnam County3
- Sangamon County3
61 more counties
- Stark County3
- Tazewell County3
- Woodford County3
- Bond County3
- Clark County3
- Coles County3
- Cumberland County3
- Effingham County3
- Fayette County3
- Jasper County3
- Macoupin County3
- Montgomery County3
- Hardin County3
- Johnson County3
- Union County3
- Williamson County3
- Brown County2
- DeWitt County2
- Henderson County2
- Logan County2
- McDonough County2
- Macon County2
- Mason County2
- Mercer County2
- Moultrie County2
- Piatt County2
- Scott County2
- Warren County2
- Edgar County2
- Shelby County2
- Bureau County2
- Ford County2
- Henry County2
- Iroquois County2
- Kankakee County2
- LaSalle County2
- Schuyler County1
- Champaign County1
- Douglas County1
- Vermilion County1
- Calhoun County1
- Greene County1
- Jersey County1
- Pike County1
- Boone County1
- Carroll County1
- Cook County1
- DeKalb County1
- DuPage County1
- Grundy County1
- Kane County1
- Kendall County1
- Lake County1
- Lee County1
- McHenry County1
- Ogle County1
- Rock Island County1
- Stephenson County1
- Whiteside County1
- Will County1
- Winnebago County1
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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.