Hail, Adams
- When
- April 30, 9:30 AM CST
- Where
- Adams County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.880, -91.180
Tornado and Hail in Illinois, April 30, 1962
7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 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
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 9
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
7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Greene
- When
- April 30, 11:30 AM CST
- Where
- Greene County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 5.2 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 39.270, -90.450
Thunderstorm Wind, Will
- When
- April 30, 12:14 PM CST
- Where
- Will County
- Measured
- 90 kt (104 mph)
- Coordinates
- 41.500, -88.080
Thunderstorm Wind, Sangamon
- When
- April 30, 12:30 PM CST
- Where
- Sangamon County
- Coordinates
- 39.780, -89.680
Thunderstorm Wind, Champaign
- When
- April 30, 12:30 PM CST
- Where
- Champaign County
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Coordinates
- 40.280, -88.180
Thunderstorm Wind, Champaign
- When
- April 30, 12:38 PM CST
- Where
- Champaign County
- Measured
- 75 kt (86 mph)
- Coordinates
- 40.080, -88.180
Thunderstorm Wind, Champaign
- When
- April 30, 1:00 PM CST
- Where
- Champaign County
- Coordinates
- 40.280, -88.180
Thunderstorm Wind, Cook
- When
- April 30, 1:30 PM CST
- Where
- Cook County
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Coordinates
- 41.780, -87.780
Thunderstorm Wind, Franklin
- When
- April 30, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Franklin County
- Coordinates
- 37.880, -88.900
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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 Indiana, April 30, 1962
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- Tornadoes and Hail in Michigan, April 30, 1962
- Tornadoes in Louisiana, April 30, 1962
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, April 30, 1962
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, April 30, 1962
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, April 30, 1962
- Hail in Missouri, April 30, 1962
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, April 30, 1962
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 30, 1962
- Hail in South Carolina, April 30, 1962
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, April 30, 1962
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: 10008786, 10008787, 10008788, 10008789, 10008790, 10008791, 10008792, 10008793, 10008794.