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Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, February 2018

9 mesoscale discussions in February 2018. 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 February 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
9
Busiest day
February 5, 20182 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 5, 11:36 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHenderson, Mercer, Rock Island, Warren6 hr
Feb 5, 4:57 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBureau, DeWitt, Ford, Fulton, Grundy, Hancock and 25 more4 hr
Feb 6, 6:08 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Jackson, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski and 4 more4 hr
Feb 6, 9:42 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Clay, Crawford, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin and 20 more5 hr
Feb 8, 9:07 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Jo Daviess and 10 more6 hr
Feb 9, 3:08 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane and 10 more6 hr
Feb 15, 5:51 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Crawford2 hr
Feb 20, 9:18 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian, Cook, DeWitt and 32 more6 hr
Feb 24, 2:58 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Massac, Pulaski62 min

By county

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

47 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.