Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Illinois, January 2008
5 tornado watches in January 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 January 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- January 7, 20082 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 1:52 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 20 more | 146 days |
| Jan 7, 2:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 7:48 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jackson and 12 more | 9 hr |
| Jan 8, 1:26 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gallatin, Hardin, Massac, Pope | 8 hr |
| Jan 29, 11:32 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Edwards, Fayette and 27 more | 7 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
- Montgomery County3
- Pike County2
- Bond County2
- Clinton County2
- Fayette County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Perry County2
- Randolph County2
- Saint Clair County2
- Washington County2
- Gallatin County2
- Hardin County2
- Massac County2
- Pope County2
- Adams County1
- Brown County1
- Cass County1
- Champaign County1
- Christian County1
- Coles County1
- Douglas County1
- Fulton County1
- Hancock County1
- McDonough County1
- Macon County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Morgan County1
- Moultrie County1
- Piatt County1
- Sangamon County1
- Schuyler County1
51 more counties
- Scott County1
- Shelby County1
- Boone County1
- Bureau County1
- Carroll County1
- Cook County1
- DeKalb County1
- DeWitt County1
- DuPage County1
- Ford County1
- Grundy County1
- Henderson County1
- Henry County1
- Iroquois County1
- Kane County1
- Kankakee County1
- Kendall County1
- Knox County1
- Lake County1
- LaSalle County1
- Lee County1
- Livingston County1
- Logan County1
- McHenry County1
- McLean County1
- Marshall County1
- Mercer County1
- Ogle County1
- Peoria County1
- Putnam County1
- Rock Island County1
- Stark County1
- Stephenson County1
- Tazewell County1
- Warren County1
- Whiteside County1
- Will County1
- Winnebago County1
- Woodford County1
- Alexander County1
- Edwards County1
- Franklin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Johnson 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.