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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 ]
An extratropical cyclone developed over Nebraska on the morning of March 31. As a result, meteorologists expected a storm mode of discrete supercells to develop. This, along with the presence of even stronger CAPE values and a more unstable environment across Illinois and eastern Missouri, led to the SPC "bridging" the two main moderate risk areas and giving a 15% hatched risk for significant ...
EF3 tornadoes in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Illinois prompted the issuance of tornado emergencies and multiple mass casualty incidents were declared for some of the hardest hit areas. One of these tornadoes was a high-end EF3 tornado that passed through the northern Little Rock metro, causing extensive damage and dozens of injuries.
An EF-1 tornado with a peak wind of 105 mph hit Delavan in Walworth County around 8:22 p.m. Saturday night, according to a NWS report. Delavan is a few miles northwest of Williams Bay, where heavy ...
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.
Central Illinois endured several tornadoes on Saturday, resulting in fascinating footage of the funnels spinning through the state. According to ABC News, a total of 22 tornadoes were reported to ...
Multiple tornadoes caused upwards of $100,000,000 in damage each, and multiple others were responsible for many injuries and deaths, with mass casualty events occurring in Little Rock, Arkansas and Belvidere, Illinois. Tornadoes on this list are ordered chronologically.
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 ...