Alert archive / Illinois / Mercer County
Weather alerts in Mercer County, Illinois, 1997
20 weather alerts in 1997, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Mercer County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 20
- Warnings
- 8
- Watches
- 12
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- May4 alerts
- Busiest day
- April 5, 19972 alerts
Over time
By month
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 | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 12:13 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | 12 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | 42 min |
| Apr 5, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Apr 30, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 7, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 18, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 18, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 18, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | 36 min |
| Jun 15, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 21, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | 60 min |
| Jul 19, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | 46 min |
| Jul 19, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | 32 min |
| Jul 27, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Aug 3, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Aug 17, 12:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | 8 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | 50 min |
| Sep 19, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
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 | 6 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 8 |
| Tornado Watch | 4 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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. Rebuilt daily.