Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Illinois, December 2008
6 tornado watches in December 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 December 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- December 27, 20086 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 1:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 26 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 27, 4:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette and 11 more | 8 hr |
| Dec 27, 10:58 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 43 more | 8 hr |
| Dec 27, 12:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 27, 12:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 27, 1:52 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brown County3
- Calhoun County3
- Greene County3
- Jersey County3
- Macoupin County3
- Montgomery County3
- Pike County3
- Adams County2
- Cass County2
- Champaign County2
- Christian County2
- DeWitt County2
- Douglas County2
- Fulton County2
- Knox County2
- Logan County2
- McLean County2
- Macon County2
- Marshall County2
- Mason County2
- Menard County2
- Morgan County2
- Moultrie County2
- Peoria County2
- Piatt County2
- Sangamon County2
- Schuyler County2
- Scott County2
- Shelby County2
- Stark County2
- Tazewell County2
- Woodford County2
- Bond County2
- Clinton County2
- Fayette County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Randolph County2
- Saint Clair County2
45 more counties
- Washington County2
- Ford County2
- Grundy County2
- Iroquois County2
- Kankakee County2
- Kendall County2
- LaSalle County2
- Livingston County2
- Will County2
- Bureau County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Coles County1
- Crawford County1
- Cumberland County1
- Edgar County1
- Effingham County1
- Jasper County1
- Lawrence County1
- Putnam County1
- Richland County1
- Vermilion County1
- Cook County1
- DeKalb County1
- DuPage County1
- Kane County1
- Alexander County1
- Edwards County1
- Franklin County1
- Gallatin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Massac County1
- Perry County1
- Pope County1
- Pulaski County1
- Saline County1
- Union County1
- Wabash County1
- Wayne County1
- White County1
- Williamson 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.