Alert archive / Illinois / Mesoscale Discussions / 2008
Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, January 2008
20 mesoscale discussions in January 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 January 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 20
- Busiest day
- January 8, 20089 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 6:25 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Iroquois, Kankakee | 3 hr |
| Jan 7, 7:26 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Jo Daviess, Rock Island, Stephenson, Winnebago | 2 hr |
| Jan 7, 1:47 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll and 43 more | 58 min |
| Jan 7, 4:34 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian, DeWitt and 15 more | 86 min |
| Jan 7, 6:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Pike, Schuyler | 94 min |
| Jan 7, 6:57 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Madison, Monroe, Pike and 2 more | 93 min |
| Jan 7, 7:03 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 4 more | 117 min |
| Jan 7, 10:04 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun | 86 min |
| Jan 7, 10:12 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, DeWitt and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 8, 11:27 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 8, 11:40 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jo Daviess | 5 hr |
| Jan 8, 12:22 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 10 more | 83 min |
| Jan 8, 1:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gallatin, Hardin, Massac, Pope | 2 hr |
| Jan 10, 7:52 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 15 more | 113 min |
| Jan 29, 10:21 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 8 more | 54 min |
| Jan 29, 10:54 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander | 66 min |
| Jan 29, 12:19 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Lee and 8 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 29, 1:24 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar and 11 more | 66 min |
| Jan 29, 3:56 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Cumberland, Edwards and 24 more | 64 min |
| Jan 29, 6:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cook | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alexander County6
- Gallatin County6
- Hardin County6
- Massac County6
- Pope County6
- Johnson County5
- Pulaski County5
- Saline County5
- Union County5
- Williamson County5
- Calhoun County4
- DeWitt County4
- Logan County4
- Pike County4
- Jackson County4
- Franklin County4
- Hamilton County4
- White County4
- Kankakee County3
- Carroll County3
- Jo Daviess County3
- Rock Island County3
- Winnebago County3
- Adams County3
- Brown County3
- Greene County3
- Menard County3
- Morgan County3
- Sangamon County3
- Schuyler County3
- Scott County3
- Christian County3
- Macon County3
- Champaign County3
- Coles County3
- Cumberland County3
- Douglas County3
- Edgar County3
- Moultrie County3
- Vermilion County3
61 more counties
- Edwards County3
- Wabash County3
- Iroquois County2
- Stephenson County2
- Boone County2
- Cass County2
- Cook County2
- Hancock County2
- Henderson County2
- Henry County2
- Lee County2
- Livingston County2
- McHenry County2
- McLean County2
- Mason County2
- Mercer County2
- Ogle County2
- Warren County2
- Whiteside County2
- Woodford County2
- Jersey County2
- Madison County2
- Clark County2
- Crawford County2
- Jasper County2
- Effingham County2
- Piatt County2
- Lawrence County2
- Jefferson County2
- Perry County2
- Washington County2
- Wayne County2
- Bureau County1
- DeKalb County1
- DuPage County1
- Fulton County1
- Grundy County1
- Kane County1
- Kendall County1
- Knox County1
- Lake County1
- LaSalle County1
- McDonough County1
- Marshall County1
- Peoria County1
- Putnam County1
- Stark County1
- Tazewell County1
- Will County1
- Macoupin County1
- Montgomery County1
- Monroe County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Shelby County1
- Randolph County1
- Ford County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Fayette County1
- Marion County1
- Richland 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.