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Illinois has had large tornado outbreaks in the past, the most notable being the tornado outbreak sequence of December 18–20, 1957. 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 ]
Northern Illinois was the hardest-hit area, accounting for nearly 75% of the 340,000 power outages across the Midwest Tuesday morning in the wake of the storms.
The tornadoes were part of a larger system that wreaked havoc from Arkansas to Iowa and Illinois and moved into Tennessee by the evening. Nearly 60 preliminary tornado reports were sent to the ...
The weather service said EF-1 tornadoes struck two other areas of suburban Chicago in Illinois. EF-0 twisters were reported in Illinois and Indiana suburbs of Chicago.
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.
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 County at 6:39 p.m. CDT (23
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.
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 ...