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The tornado caused an estimated $165 million (1990 USD) in damages, and is the only F5 or EF5 tornado on record to hit the Chicago metropolitan area. [103] June 2, 1990 – An F2 tornado tracked 8 miles through Shelby County, destroying 16 homes, damaging a further 60, and injuring 2 people.
The 2011 Super Outbreak was the largest tornado outbreak spawned by a single weather system in recorded history; it produced 360 tornadoes from April 25–28, with 216 of those in a single 24-hour period on April 27 from midnight to midnight CDT, [6] [13] fifteen of which were violent EF4–EF5 tornadoes. 348 deaths occurred in that outbreak, of which 324 were tornado related.
The tornado struck well after dark, [2] had a path length of 14.8 mi (23.8 km) and reached a width of 600 yd (550 m), as well as causing 11 injuries. [1] It was the strongest tornado in the Chicago metropolitan area since 2015's Coal City tornado, and the first major tornado in DuPage County since the 1976 Lemont tornado. [3]
Between 1855 and 2021, the weather service recorded 97 significant tornadoes in the Chicago metro area. The deadliest formed in Palos Hills in Cook County on April 21, 1967.
The 2013 Washington, Illinois tornado was an unusually powerful and violent tornado that caused catastrophic damage to the city of Washington and several farmsteads in rural central Illinois during the early afternoon of November 17, 2013. The tornado resulted in three fatalities and injured 125 people. This tornado was one of the two violent ...
On July 15, the Chicago area saw a perfect storm of its own, but this time on land, with a record-setting number of tornadoes touching down in a single day. In a Fox 32 special report, Chief ...
This was one of the largest tornado outbreak sequences at the time. Several long-tracked tornadoes touched down in Texas, Arkansas, and Iowa and violent tornadoes touched down in Iowa, Texas, Oklahoma. (50 significant, 3 violent, 2 killer) [42] Tornado outbreak sequence of May 30 – June 3, 1954: May 30–June 3, 1954
The 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak was a destructive tornado outbreak and severe weather event that occurred on April 21, 1967, across the central Midwest, in particular the towns of Belvidere and Oak Lawn, Illinois, United States. Locally known as 'Black Friday,' it was the largest tornado outbreak of 1967 and has been described by NWS Chicago ...