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Two tornadoes—both in Illinois and rated EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita scale—were the strongest documented during the outbreak and combined for five deaths. In addition to tornadoes, the system associated with the outbreak produced sizeable hail peaking at 4.00 in (10.2 cm) in diameter in Bloomington, Illinois , as well as damaging winds ...
234 miles (377 km) 613 deaths in Southern Illinois. 695 deaths overall Deadliest single tornado in US history. Most extreme tornado in recorded history. Holds the record longest path length (219 miles, 352 km), longest duration (about 3.5 hours), and fastest forward speed for a significant tornado (73 mph, 117 km/h).
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.
Illinois is vulnerable to tornadoes with an average of 35 occurring annually, which puts much of the state at around 5 tornadoes per 10,000 square miles (30,000 km 2) annually. [ 1 ] Peak tornado activity occurs between February and May, but storms can and have produced tornadoes in the winter.
A year after a deadly tornado ripped through Belvidere and caved in the Apollo Theatre's roof, there are nearly a dozen unresolved lawsuits. Deadly Illinois tornado left behind scars, trauma and ...
Part of the tornado outbreak of April 8–9, 2015. Throughout the evening hours of April 9, 2015, an extremely violent and long-lived multiple-vortex tornado tore through the communities near Rochelle and in Fairdale, Illinois. Part of a larger severe weather event that impacted the Central United States, the tornado first touched down in Lee ...
In the evening hours of June 20, 2021, an intense tornado affected the Chicago suburbs of Naperville, Woodridge, Darien, Burr Ridge, and Willow Springs in DuPage and Cook Counties in Illinois. 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]
A widespread, deadly, and historic [5] tornado outbreak affected large portions of the Midwestern, Southern and Eastern United States on March 31 and April 1, 2023, the result of an extratropical cyclone that also produced blizzard conditions in the Upper Midwest. The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) issued a rare high risk for severe weather in ...