Alert archive / Illinois / Mesoscale Discussions / 2009

Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, March 2009

11 mesoscale discussions in March 2009. 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 March 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
11
Busiest day
March 8, 20093 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 7, 10:26 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Brown, Cass, Fulton, Hancock, Logan and 7 more2 hr
Mar 8, 9:26 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian, Clinton and 32 more64 min
Mar 8, 11:35 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBond, Champaign, Christian, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 27 more115 min
Mar 10, 3:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 24 more2 hr
Mar 10, 7:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Crawford and 30 more119 min
Mar 18, 2:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBond, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Crawford and 27 more113 min
Mar 24, 5:36 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 9 more54 min
Mar 24, 10:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kendall and 4 more92 min
Mar 28, 12:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGallatin, Hardin, Pope, Saline92 min
Mar 29, 3:42 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, DeKalb, Kane, LaSalle, McHenry, Marshall and 1 more4 hr
Mar 31, 6:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDuPage, Kane, Kankakee, McHenry, Will60 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

39 more counties

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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.