Alert archive / Illinois / Mesoscale Discussions / 2008
Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, August 2008
13 mesoscale discussions in August 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 mesoscale discussions reaches back to 2003.
Mesoscale Discussions by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 13
- Busiest day
- August 5, 20084 mesoscale discussions
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 1, 1:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Iroquois and 7 more | 113 min |
| Aug 4, 3:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 16 more | 84 min |
| Aug 4, 6:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy and 17 more | 90 min |
| Aug 4, 8:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grundy, Kankakee, Will | 85 min |
| Aug 5, 1:53 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Carroll, Henry, Mercer, Rock Island, Whiteside | 97 min |
| Aug 5, 7:07 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Champaign, Ford, Grundy, Henry, Iroquois and 13 more | 53 min |
| Aug 5, 12:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Clay, Clinton, Edwards, Fayette, Franklin and 17 more | 94 min |
| Aug 5, 7:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 37 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 6, 5:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Crawford, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton and 13 more | 64 min |
| Aug 14, 3:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Jackson, Monroe, Randolph, Saint Clair, Union | 91 min |
| Aug 28, 2:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Hancock, Henderson, Mercer, Rock Island, Warren | 87 min |
| Aug 28, 6:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Fulton and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 28, 10:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Clinton, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison, Monroe and 5 more | 86 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Rock Island County5
- Monroe County5
- Randolph County5
- Saint Clair County5
- Kankakee County4
- Bureau County4
- Grundy County4
- Henry County4
- Bond County4
- Madison County4
- Iroquois County3
- Livingston County3
- LaSalle County3
- Putnam County3
- Whiteside County3
- Will County3
- Mercer County3
- Clay County3
- Clinton County3
- Edwards County3
- Franklin County3
- Gallatin County3
- Hamilton County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lawrence County3
- Marion County3
- Perry County3
- Richland County3
- Saline County3
- Wabash County3
- Washington County3
- Wayne County3
- White County3
- Williamson County3
- Jersey County3
- Macoupin County3
- Montgomery County3
- Champaign County2
- Ford County2
- McLean County2
59 more counties
- Vermilion County2
- Boone County2
- Carroll County2
- Cook County2
- DeKalb County2
- DuPage County2
- Kane County2
- Kendall County2
- Lake County2
- Lee County2
- McHenry County2
- Ogle County2
- Winnebago County2
- Marshall County2
- Fayette County2
- Calhoun County2
- Crawford County2
- Greene County2
- Hardin County2
- Jackson County2
- Jasper County2
- Morgan County2
- Pike County2
- Sangamon County2
- Scott County2
- Adams County2
- Hancock County2
- DeWitt County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Logan County1
- Macon County1
- Piatt County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Stephenson County1
- Knox County1
- Peoria County1
- Stark County1
- Woodford County1
- Christian County1
- Clark County1
- Coles County1
- Cumberland County1
- Effingham County1
- Moultrie County1
- Shelby County1
- Johnson County1
- Pope County1
- Alexander County1
- Union County1
- Henderson County1
- Warren County1
- Brown County1
- Cass County1
- Fulton County1
- McDonough County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Schuyler 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.