Tornado, Edgar
- When
- May 24, 7:45 PM CST
- Where
- Edgar County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 39.720, -87.670
Tornado in Illinois, May 24, 1970
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
- 1
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. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 24, 1970
- Tornadoes in Louisiana, May 24, 1970
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, May 24, 1970
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 24, 1970
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 24, 1970
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 24, 1970
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Florida, May 24, 1970
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Virginia, May 24, 1970
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, May 24, 1970
- Hail in Wyoming, May 24, 1970
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, May 24, 1970
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, May 24, 1970
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: 10010045.