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Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, September 2018

8 mesoscale discussions in September 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 September 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
8
Busiest day
September 25, 20183 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
Sep 1, 6:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Mercer, Rock Island and 2 more56 min
Sep 1, 10:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarroll, Henry, Mercer, Rock Island, Whiteside63 min
Sep 2, 3:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Jo Daviess, McHenry, Stephenson, Winnebago118 min
Sep 3, 1:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 22 more2 hr
Sep 20, 3:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane and 8 more89 min
Sep 25, 1:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry and 12 more113 min
Sep 25, 3:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 28 more96 min
Sep 25, 5:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChampaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 11 more114 min

By county

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

11 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.