Tornado, St. Clair
- When
- April 25, 2:30 AM CST
- Where
- St. Clair County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 300 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 38.450, -89.970
Tornado and Damaging Wind in Illinois, April 25, 1957
1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- $25,000
- 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 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Champaign
- When
- April 25, 5:20 AM CST
- Where
- Champaign County
- Coordinates
- 40.080, -88.180
What these are
- 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.
- 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, April 25, 1957
- Tornado in Arkansas, April 25, 1957
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, April 25, 1957
- Tornado in Missouri, April 25, 1957
- Tornado in New York, April 25, 1957
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, April 25, 1957
- Tornado and Hail in Michigan, April 25, 1957
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, April 25, 1957
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, April 25, 1957
- Hail in Wisconsin, April 25, 1957
More
Every storm in Illinois in 1957Every state in 1957This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Illinois, 1957
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: 10008609, 10008610.