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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, DeWitt and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Cumberland and 26 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Edwards, Lawrence, Richland, Wabash | 5 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Knox, Logan and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Alexander, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass and 40 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Edwards, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Henderson, Jo Daviess, Mercer, Rock Island | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Carroll, Cass and 54 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Hancock | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 36 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clark County4
- Coles County4
- Crawford County4
- Effingham County4
- Jasper County4
- Shelby County4
- Edwards County4
- Richland County4
- Champaign County3
- Cumberland County3
- Douglas County3
- Edgar County3
- Iroquois County3
- Vermilion County3
- Cass County3
- Christian County3
- Greene County3
- Logan County3
- Macon County3
- Mason County3
- Menard County3
- Morgan County3
- Moultrie County3
- Piatt County3
- Sangamon County3
- Scott County3
- Bond County3
- Calhoun County3
- Clay County3
- Clinton County3
- Fayette County3
- Franklin County3
- Gallatin County3
- Hamilton County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Jersey County3
- Macoupin County3
- Madison County3
- Marion County3
62 more counties
- Monroe County3
- Montgomery County3
- Perry County3
- Randolph County3
- Saint Clair County3
- Saline County3
- Union County3
- Washington County3
- Wayne County3
- White County3
- Williamson County3
- Lawrence County3
- Wabash County3
- Hancock County3
- Henderson County3
- Mercer County3
- Rock Island County3
- Adams County3
- DeWitt County2
- Ford County2
- Grundy County2
- Kankakee County2
- Kendall County2
- LaSalle County2
- Livingston County2
- McLean County2
- Marshall County2
- Putnam County2
- Tazewell County2
- Will County2
- Woodford County2
- Fulton County2
- Henry County2
- Knox County2
- McDonough County2
- Peoria County2
- Schuyler County2
- Warren County2
- Alexander County2
- Brown County2
- Hardin County2
- Johnson County2
- Massac County2
- Pike County2
- Pope County2
- Pulaski County2
- Jo Daviess County2
- Boone County1
- Bureau County1
- Carroll County1
- Cook County1
- DeKalb County1
- DuPage County1
- Kane County1
- Lake County1
- Lee County1
- McHenry County1
- Ogle County1
- Stark County1
- Stephenson County1
- Whiteside County1
- Winnebago County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.