Tornado, Lee
- When
- August 15, 2:00 AM CST
- Where
- Lee County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 74.5 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 41.770, -89.470
Tornadoes and Hail in Illinois, August 15, 1958
2 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- $253,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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
2 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Vermilion
- When
- August 15, 5:00 AM CST
- Where
- Vermilion County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 13.9 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 40.080, -87.650
Hail, Shelby
- When
- August 15, 5:53 AM CST
- Where
- Shelby County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.500, -88.780
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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Hail in Maine, August 15, 1958
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Connecticut, August 15, 1958
- Tornado in Texas, August 15, 1958
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, August 15, 1958
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, August 15, 1958
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 15, 1958
- Damaging Wind in Massachusetts, August 15, 1958
- Hail in North Carolina, August 15, 1958
- Hail in Pennsylvania, August 15, 1958
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, August 15, 1958
More
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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: 10010905, 10010906, 10010907.