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Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, March 2016

12 mesoscale discussions in March 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 March 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
12
Busiest day
March 15, 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
Feb 29, 8:49 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Jo Daviess, McHenry, Stephenson, Winnebago6 hr
Mar 15, 2:24 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Brown, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, Christian and 37 more66 min
Mar 15, 5:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBond, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Cumberland, Edwards and 21 more88 min
Mar 15, 6:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBureau, Cass, Fulton, Henry, Knox, Logan and 11 more91 min
Mar 15, 8:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCook, DuPage, Iroquois, Kankakee, Lake, Vermilion and 1 more53 min
Mar 24, 12:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChampaign, Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 11 more3 hr
Mar 27, 2:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 20 more2 hr
Mar 27, 5:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLawrence, Wabash2 hr
Mar 30, 1:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBond, Calhoun, Cass, Christian, Clinton, Effingham and 19 more2 hr
Mar 31, 10:46 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 21 more89 min
Mar 31, 12:36 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 46 more84 min
Mar 31, 5:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Johnson and 9 more96 min

By county

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

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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.