Thunderstorm Wind, Hancock
- When
- August 30, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Hancock County
- Measured
- 78 kt (90 mph)
- Coordinates
- 40.380, -91.400
Tornado and Damaging Wind in Illinois, August 30, 1956
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Lee
- When
- August 30, 11:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lee County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 41.800, -89.500
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes in North Dakota, August 30, 1956
- Tornado and Hail in Missouri, August 30, 1956
- Damaging Winds in Texas, August 30, 1956
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, August 30, 1956
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, August 30, 1956
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, August 30, 1956
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 30, 1956
- Tornado in Minnesota, August 30, 1956
- Hail in Nebraska, August 30, 1956
More
Every storm in Illinois in 1956Every state in 1956This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Illinois, 1956
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10007525, 10007526.