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Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, August 2016

13 mesoscale discussions in August 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
13
Busiest day
August 5, 20163 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
Jul 31, 11:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCalhoun, Jackson, Monroe, Randolph, Saint Clair117 min
Aug 4, 12:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCJo Daviess2 hr
Aug 4, 4:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCJo Daviess87 min
Aug 4, 7:17 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarroll, Jo Daviess, Stephenson88 min
Aug 4, 8:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Henry, Kane and 14 more64 min
Aug 5, 2:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more3 hr
Aug 11, 9:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarroll, Jo Daviess, Mercer, Rock Island, Whiteside53 min
Aug 18, 7:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarroll, Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Winnebago94 min
Aug 24, 1:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChampaign, Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, DeWitt and 10 more85 min
Aug 24, 3:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar and 1 more92 min
Aug 24, 9:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Greene, Jersey and 9 more37 min
Aug 25, 3:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 28 more119 min
Aug 26, 1:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 26 more92 min

By county

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

49 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. Rebuilt daily.