Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, March 2002
4 severe thunderstorm watches in March 2002. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in March 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- March 9, 20023 severe thunderstorm watches
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 11:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Carroll, Fulton, Hancock and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 11:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Monroe, Randolph | 4 hr |
| Mar 9, 4:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Champaign, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt and 33 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 29, 7:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Clinton, Jackson, Madison, Monroe, Perry and 3 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bureau County2
- Lee County2
- Ogle County2
- Peoria County2
- Stark County2
- Monroe County2
- Randolph County2
- Adams County1
- Brown County1
- Carroll County1
- Fulton County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Henry County1
- Knox County1
- McDonough County1
- Mercer County1
- Pike County1
- Rock Island County1
- Schuyler County1
- Warren County1
- Whiteside County1
- Boone County1
- Champaign County1
- Cook County1
- DeKalb County1
- DeWitt County1
- Douglas County1
- DuPage County1
- Edgar County1
- Ford County1
- Grundy County1
- Iroquois County1
- Kane County1
- Kankakee County1
- Kendall County1
- Lake County1
- LaSalle County1
- Livingston County1
- Logan County1
23 more counties
- McHenry County1
- McLean County1
- Macon County1
- Marshall County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Moultrie County1
- Piatt County1
- Putnam County1
- Sangamon County1
- Stephenson County1
- Tazewell County1
- Vermilion County1
- Will County1
- Winnebago County1
- Woodford County1
- Alexander County1
- Clinton County1
- Jackson County1
- Madison County1
- Perry County1
- Saint Clair County1
- Washington County1
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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.