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Illinois has had large tornado outbreaks in the past, including the tornado outbreak sequence of December 18–20, 1957 and the 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak. 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]
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.
Detailed tornado and downburst track map by Ted Fujita and Gregory S. Forbes. [6] Before that tornado lifted, a second tornado touched down to the left of the first tornado at 4:45 p.m. on the east side of Fiatt, and it too in conjunction with intense downburst winds proceeded in a meandering path roughly eastward roughly along Route 9.
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1975 Canton, Illinois, tornado; Marion, Illinois, tornado outbreak; 1990 Plainfield tornado; June 1990 Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 6–27, 1995; List of tornadoes in the May 1995 tornado outbreak sequence; Tornado outbreak sequence of April 1996; Tornado outbreak of April 15–16, 1998
A tree uprooted by a weak tornado in Chicago on July 14. The Storm Prediction Center outlined a slight (2/5) risk convective outlook at 13Z, outflow from previous mesoscale convective systems had manifested as outflow boundaries over Iowa and Illinois, which were expected to be conducive to the formation of serial mesoscale convective systems that evening. [21]
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.
When a tornado caused extensive damage in the greater Peoria area, ... the tornado crossed the Illinois River from Peoria County at 10:53 a.m. on Nov. 17. In the one minute that it tracked through ...