Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, March 2003

18 severe thunderstorm warnings in March 2003. 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 severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in March 2003. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
18
Busiest day
March 20, 200311 severe thunderstorm warnings

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
Mar 12, 9:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXPike35 min
Mar 12, 9:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXPike33 min
Mar 13, 12:45 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMacoupin, Montgomery45 min
Mar 13, 3:05 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHJackson25 min
Mar 19, 5:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXPiatt43 min
Mar 19, 5:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTGrundy, Will40 min
Mar 19, 6:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXChristian24 min
Mar 19, 6:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXSangamon24 min
Mar 19, 7:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXLogan45 min
Mar 19, 7:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXLogan25 min
Mar 19, 7:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMcLean64 min
Mar 19, 8:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXTazewell55 min
Mar 19, 8:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCalhoun, Greene41 min
Mar 20, 2:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTKankakee40 min
Mar 20, 3:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXChristian44 min
Mar 20, 4:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXMacon45 min
Mar 20, 5:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXDeWitt25 min
Mar 25, 7:17 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMadison, Saint Clair28 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. Rebuilt daily.