Alert archive / Illinois / 2003
Weather alerts in Illinois, March 2003
37 weather alerts in March 2003, 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 37
- Warnings
- 20
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- March 20, 200313 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 4, 10:21 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Carroll, DeKalb, Jo Daviess, Kane, Lake and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:23 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 26 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 2:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 4:58 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 12, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 35 min |
| Mar 12, 9:28 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Christian, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Greene and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 12, 9:52 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Monroe, Saint Clair | 113 min |
| Mar 12, 9:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 33 min |
| Mar 13, 12:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Jersey, Macoupin and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 13, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin, Montgomery | 45 min |
| Mar 13, 1:35 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson and 7 more | 115 min |
| Mar 13, 3:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson | 25 min |
| Mar 19, 1:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian, Sangamon | 59 min |
| Mar 19, 1:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian, Sangamon | 51 min |
| Mar 19, 1:29 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 29 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 5:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Piatt | 43 min |
| Mar 19, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Grundy, Will | 40 min |
| Mar 19, 6:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 24 min |
| Mar 19, 6:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 24 min |
| Mar 19, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan | 45 min |
| Mar 19, 7:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan | 25 min |
| Mar 19, 7:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 64 min |
| Mar 19, 8:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Tazewell | 55 min |
| Mar 19, 8:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Greene | 41 min |
| Mar 20, 12:23 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hardin | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 12:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Clinton, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kankakee | 40 min |
| Mar 20, 3:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Christian | 44 min |
| Mar 20, 4:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Macon | 45 min |
| Mar 20, 5:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | DeWitt | 25 min |
| Mar 24, 5:54 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson and 12 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 7:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison, Saint Clair | 28 min |
| Mar 28, 7:35 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Edgar, Vermilion | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 10:22 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Cumberland, Edgar, Edwards, Gallatin and 13 more | 113 min |
| Mar 28, 1:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Hardin, Wabash | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 3:30 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hardin, Wabash | 2 hr |
| Mar 28, 5:27 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gallatin, Hardin, Wabash | 93 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 | 18 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 13 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wabash County9
- Clark County7
- Christian County6
- Cumberland County6
- Edwards County6
- Jefferson County6
- Richland County6
- Wayne County6
- Hamilton County6
- Hardin County6
- Clay County5
- Coles County5
- Edgar County5
- Fayette County5
- Jasper County5
- Lawrence County5
- Marion County5
- Montgomery County5
- Saint Clair County5
- Shelby County5
- Franklin County5
- White County5
- Williamson County5
- Clinton County4
- Crawford County4
- Douglas County4
- Effingham County4
- Macoupin County4
- Madison County4
- Perry County4
- Sangamon County4
- Pope County4
- Saline County4
- Gallatin County4
- Bond County3
- Vermilion County3
- Washington County3
- Pike County3
- Monroe County3
- Jackson County3
52 more counties
- Johnson County3
- Massac County3
- Macon County2
- Moultrie County2
- Piatt County2
- Greene County2
- Jersey County2
- Calhoun County2
- Randolph County2
- Alexander County2
- Pulaski County2
- Union County2
- Logan County2
- McLean County2
- Tazewell County2
- Boone County1
- Carroll County1
- DeKalb County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Kane County1
- Lake County1
- Lee County1
- McHenry County1
- Ogle County1
- Rock Island County1
- Stephenson County1
- Whiteside County1
- Winnebago County1
- Champaign County1
- Morgan County1
- Scott County1
- Grundy County1
- Will County1
- Kankakee County1
- DeWitt County1
- Adams County1
- Brown County1
- Cass County1
- Fulton County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Knox County1
- McDonough County1
- Marshall County1
- Mason County1
- Peoria County1
- Putnam County1
- Schuyler County1
- Stark County1
- Warren County1
- Woodford County1
- Iroquois 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.