Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Illinois, April 2008
5 tornado watches in April 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- April 10, 20084 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 10, 3:28 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 10, 9:51 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 10, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Hancock, Henderson, McDonough and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 10, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 25, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, DeKalb, Fulton and 34 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hardin County3
- Johnson County3
- Massac County3
- Pope County3
- Pulaski County3
- Union County3
- Alexander County2
- Gallatin County2
- Jackson County2
- Saline County2
- Williamson County2
- Hancock County2
- Henderson County2
- McDonough County2
- Mercer County2
- Warren County2
- Adams County1
- Brown County1
- Calhoun County1
- Pike County1
- Edwards County1
- Franklin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Jefferson County1
- Perry County1
- Wabash County1
- Wayne County1
- White County1
- Boone County1
- Bureau County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- DeKalb County1
- Fulton County1
- Grundy County1
- Henry County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Kane County1
- Kendall County1
- Knox County1
23 more counties
- LaSalle County1
- Lee County1
- Livingston County1
- Logan County1
- McHenry County1
- McLean County1
- Marshall County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Morgan County1
- Ogle County1
- Peoria County1
- Putnam County1
- Rock Island County1
- Sangamon County1
- Schuyler County1
- Scott County1
- Stark County1
- Stephenson County1
- Tazewell County1
- Whiteside County1
- Winnebago 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.