Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Illinois, March 1998
4 tornado watches in March 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 March 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- March 28, 19982 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Greene, Jackson and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 19 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 9:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Cook and 37 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Calhoun County3
- Greene County3
- Jersey County3
- Macoupin County3
- Bond County2
- Montgomery County2
- Adams County2
- Brown County2
- Cass County2
- Logan County2
- Mason County2
- Menard County2
- Morgan County2
- Pike County2
- Sangamon County2
- Schuyler County2
- Scott County2
- Alexander County1
- Clinton County1
- Jackson County1
- Madison County1
- Monroe County1
- Perry County1
- Randolph County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Washington County1
- Clark County1
- Crawford County1
- Edwards County1
- Gallatin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Lawrence County1
- Richland County1
- Saline County1
- Wabash County1
- Wayne County1
- White County1
- Williamson County1
- Christian County1
35 more counties
- DeWitt County1
- Effingham County1
- Fayette County1
- Macon County1
- Moultrie County1
- Piatt County1
- Shelby County1
- Bureau County1
- Cook County1
- DeKalb County1
- DuPage County1
- Fulton County1
- Grundy County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Henry County1
- Kane County1
- Kendall County1
- Knox County1
- Lake County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lee County1
- Livingston County1
- McDonough County1
- McLean County1
- Marshall County1
- Ogle County1
- Peoria County1
- Putnam County1
- Stark County1
- Tazewell County1
- Warren County1
- Whiteside County1
- Will County1
- Woodford 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.