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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]
1957 – On the first day of a major outbreak, strong, fast-moving tornadoes developed across Missouri and Illinois, killing 17 people. An F4 tornado, which closely followed the path of the Tri-State tornado of 1925, killed 11 people in Gorham, Murphysboro, and Sand Ridge, Illinois. Most of the deaths were in a small section of Murphysboro.
The Climate Prediction Center (CPC), including its name from 1978–1995, the Climate Analysis Center (CAC); The National Hurricane Center (NHC), including its name from 1950–1965, the Miami Hurricane Warning Office (HWO)
Mere seconds can mean the difference between life and death when a tornado strikes -- and time matters even more when seeking out the closest public storm shelter. ... This map may save lives when ...
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 ...
When a tornado caused extensive damage in the greater Peoria area, Pekinites provided key assistance to residents whose homes were damaged. A decade later: Pekinites look back on deadly 2013 ...
Tornado outbreak sequence of May 1896; 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado; Tornado outbreak of April 29 – May 1, 1909; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 25 – June 1, 1917; 1925 Tri-State tornado; Tri-State tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of May 1927; Tornado outbreak of September 29, 1927; Tornado outbreak of March 16–17, 1942
Streamwood is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 39,577. [2] It is a northwest suburb of Chicago, and is a part of the Chicago metropolitan area. Streamwood is one of the three communities that make up the so-called "Tri Village" area, along with Bartlett and Hanover Park. Streamwood was ...