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Tracking 46.36 mi (74.61 km) across four counties in Illinois, [151] the EF4 tornado that caused major damage in Washington, Illinois was the strongest tornado documented in the state for the month of November since reliable records began in 1950. [152] Up until that point, two other tornadoes in 1988 and 1991 were the strongest for that month ...
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]
Since its initial usage in May 1999, the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States has used the tornado emergency bulletin — a high-end classification of tornado warning — sent through either the issuance of a warning or via a "severe weather statement" that provides updated information on an ongoing warning—that is issued when a violent tornado (confirmed by radar or ground ...
Apr. 2—Shortly after 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, a tornado watch — meaning tornadoes are possible but not necessarily imminent — was issued for an area including Pulaski County. Almost immediately ...
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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.
Some of the damage left behind by one of two tornadoes that touched down in the West Virginia panhandle and western Pennsylvania Monday night. (Tom Hart/Marshall County EMA) Two confirmed ...
Pulaski was incorporated as a town in 1886. [6] The town was named for Count Casimir Pulaski, a Revolutionary War hero from Poland. [7] On April 8, 2011, two tornadoes hit Pulaski, which destroyed 31 buildings and damaged 77 others. [8] The tornadoes caused an estimated $1.68 million in damage. [9]