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Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, April 2021

6 mesoscale discussions in April 2021. 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 April 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
6
Busiest day
April 28, 20213 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
Apr 7, 5:04 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Fulton, Greene and 13 more116 min
Apr 9, 4:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Clay, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton and 19 more64 min
Apr 28, 12:33 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Johnson, Massac, Pulaski, Union, Williamson57 min
Apr 28, 3:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski and 1 more91 min
Apr 28, 5:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHardin, Massac, Pope2 hr
Apr 29, 3:14 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope and 4 more3 hr

By county

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

4 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.