Alert archive / Illinois / 2003
Weather alerts in Illinois, September 2003
26 weather alerts in September 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 September 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 26
- Warnings
- 7
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- September 24, 20038 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 7:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 13 more | 94 min |
| Aug 31, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clark, Crawford | 55 min |
| Aug 31, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clark | 62 min |
| Aug 31, 9:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Cumberland and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 1, 1:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 1, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Clay, Crawford, Edwards, Effingham, Hamilton and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 1, 3:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Edwards, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland, Saline and 3 more | 97 min |
| Sep 23, 11:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 24, 7:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 3 hr |
| Sep 24, 12:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clinton, Coles and 40 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 24, 1:16 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 89 min | |
| Sep 24, 1:16 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 89 min | |
| Sep 24, 3:14 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 91 min | |
| Sep 24, 3:14 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 91 min | |
| Sep 24, 3:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 33 more | 94 min |
| Sep 26, 12:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian, DeWitt and 23 more | 114 min |
| Sep 26, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 26, 4:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 19 more | 88 min |
| Sep 26, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 26, 5:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass and 26 more | 84 min |
| Sep 26, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 26, 6:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles and 17 more | 91 min |
| Sep 26, 7:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lawrence, Wabash | 94 min |
| Sep 26, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Edwards, Lawrence, Wabash | 6 hr |
| Sep 26, 9:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 12 more | 54 min |
| Sep 26, 11:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Lawrence | 84 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 | |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 14 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
| Marine | |
| Special Marine Warning | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Crawford County12
- Clark County11
- Lawrence County10
- Christian County9
- Edwards County9
- Effingham County8
- Jasper County8
- Montgomery County8
- Wabash County8
- Wayne County8
- Clay County7
- Cumberland County7
- Fayette County7
- Richland County7
- Shelby County7
- Bond County7
- Coles County6
- Edgar County6
- Moultrie County6
- White County6
- Vermilion County6
- Logan County6
- Macon County6
- Menard County6
- Sangamon County6
- Hamilton County5
- Marshall County5
- Putnam County5
- Tazewell County5
- Woodford County5
- Champaign County5
- DeWitt County5
- Douglas County5
- Piatt County5
- Marion County4
- Franklin County4
- Jefferson County4
- Saline County4
- Cass County4
- Fulton County4
50 more counties
- Greene County4
- Macoupin County4
- Mason County4
- Morgan County4
- Peoria County4
- Scott County4
- Madison County4
- Clinton County3
- Gallatin County3
- Hardin County3
- Bureau County3
- McLean County3
- Jackson County3
- Jersey County3
- Monroe County3
- Perry County3
- Randolph County3
- Washington County3
- Adams County3
- Brown County3
- Calhoun County3
- Hancock County3
- Henderson County3
- Knox County3
- McDonough County3
- Pike County3
- Schuyler County3
- Stark County3
- Warren County3
- DeKalb County2
- DuPage County2
- Ford County2
- Grundy County2
- Iroquois County2
- Kankakee County2
- Kendall County2
- LaSalle County2
- Livingston County2
- Will County2
- Johnson County2
- Pope County2
- Union County2
- Williamson County2
- Lee County1
- Ogle County1
- Cook County1
- Kane County1
- Lake County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Alexander 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.