Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 1998

Tornado Watches in Illinois, June 1998

11 tornado watches in June 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 June 1998. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
11
Busiest day
June 29, 19984 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChampaign, Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 5 more5 hr
Jun 12, 2:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, DeWitt and 27 more6 hr
Jun 12, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBond, Calhoun, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Cumberland and 26 more5 hr
Jun 12, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCrawford, Edwards, Lawrence, Richland, Wabash5 hr
Jun 14, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFulton, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Knox, Logan and 7 more6 hr
Jun 14, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Alexander, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass and 40 more7 hr
Jun 14, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Crawford, Edwards, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland and 1 more6 hr
Jun 29, 1:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHenderson, Jo Daviess, Mercer, Rock Island4 hr
Jun 29, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Carroll, Cass and 54 more6 hr
Jun 29, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Hancock6 hr
Jun 29, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 36 more6 hr

By county

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

62 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.