Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, March 2016
2 severe thunderstorm watches in March 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- March 16, 20161 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 15, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 27, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crawford, Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Johnson and 10 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Boone County1
- Cook County1
- DeKalb County1
- DuPage County1
- Ford County1
- Grundy County1
- Iroquois County1
- Kane County1
- Kankakee County1
- Kendall County1
- Lake County1
- McHenry County1
- Will County1
- Crawford County1
- Edwards County1
- Gallatin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Johnson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Massac County1
- Pope County1
- Pulaski County1
- Richland County1
- Saline County1
- Wabash County1
- Wayne County1
- White County1
- Williamson County1
Nearby
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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.