Alert archive / Illinois / 1997
Weather alerts in Illinois, March 1997
43 weather alerts in March 1997, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in March 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 43
- Warnings
- 39
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- March 28, 199736 alerts
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 1, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski | 7 hr |
| Mar 1, 2:46 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Hardin, Massac, Pope | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:13 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Alexander, Johnson, Massac, Pulaski, Union | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:13 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Hardin, Pope | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Johnson, Massac, Pulaski | 28 min |
| Mar 28, 12:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Massac, Pulaski | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 2:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond, Madison | 43 min |
| Mar 28, 2:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Greene | 52 min |
| Mar 28, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 44 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 2:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Randolph | 48 min |
| Mar 28, 2:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison, Saint Clair | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 2:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Clair, Washington | 53 min |
| Mar 28, 2:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Menard | 36 min |
| Mar 28, 3:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Perry | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 3:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Sangamon | 57 min |
| Mar 28, 3:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 3:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin | 48 min |
| Mar 28, 3:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jefferson | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 3:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Perry | 39 min |
| Mar 28, 3:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 36 min |
| Mar 28, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 60 min |
| Mar 28, 4:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Clinton, Marion | 43 min |
| Mar 28, 4:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 54 min |
| Mar 28, 4:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson | 36 min |
| Mar 28, 4:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 4:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jefferson | 27 min |
| Mar 28, 4:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 48 min |
| Mar 28, 4:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Effingham | 53 min |
| Mar 28, 4:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hamilton, Wayne | 53 min |
| Mar 28, 4:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Piatt | 56 min |
| Mar 28, 4:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson, Williamson | 51 min |
| Mar 28, 5:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Shelby | 30 min |
| Mar 28, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Lawrence, Wabash | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 5:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pulaski | 24 min |
| Mar 28, 5:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles, Cumberland | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 5:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash | 57 min |
| Mar 28, 5:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Johnson | 54 min |
| Mar 28, 5:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Saline | 51 min |
| Mar 28, 5:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | White | 59 min |
| Mar 28, 5:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 5:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Johnson, Massac, Pope | 22 min |
| Mar 28, 6:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Hardin, Pope | 28 min |
| Mar 28, 6:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Saline | 46 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 33 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Tornado Watch | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Massac County7
- Johnson County6
- Pope County6
- Pulaski County6
- Hardin County4
- Alexander County3
- Madison County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Perry County3
- Saint Clair County3
- Saline County3
- Wabash County3
- Washington County3
- Union County2
- Bond County2
- Greene County2
- Christian County2
- Clinton County2
- Coles County2
- Crawford County2
- Cumberland County2
- Edwards County2
- Effingham County2
- Fayette County2
- Gallatin County2
- Hamilton County2
- Lawrence County2
- Macon County2
- Macoupin County2
- Marion County2
- Randolph County2
- Sangamon County2
- Shelby County2
- Wayne County2
- White County2
- Williamson County2
- DeWitt County2
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
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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. Rebuilt daily.