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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.
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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 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]
Of the hundreds of tornado reports, there have been more than 1,800 reports of hail 1 inch or greater and over 350 hail incidents of 2 inches in diameter or larger.. Following a large complex of ...
The tornado downed many trees on the banks of the Mississippi River, where it lifted at 8:25 p.m. (0125 UTC) just northeast of exit 34 on Interstate 270. The tornado was rated a mid-grade EF3, with winds up to 150 mph (240 km/h). It was on the ground for 35 minutes, traveled 32.5 miles (52.3 km), and had a maximum path width of 1 mile (1.6 km).
Drier air expanding across the Plains beginning on Friday, but especially during the upcoming weekend dates of May 11 and 12, will lead to a much quieter weather pattern across the region.
This outbreak was the largest December tornado event on record in Illinois history, surpassing the December 1957 tornado outbreak sequence. [2] The most significant tornado of the event was an EF3 that impacted Taylorville, Illinois , damaging or destroying hundreds of structures and injuring 22 people.