Tornado, Lee
- When
- June 20, 12:06 PM CST
- Where
- Lee County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 41.780, -89.080
Tornadoes and Hail in Illinois, June 20, 1975
8 hail, 3 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
- $3,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 11
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
8 hail, 3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Lee
- When
- June 20, 12:30 PM CST
- Where
- Lee County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 41.800, -89.180
Hail, Kendall
- When
- June 20, 12:42 PM CST
- Where
- Kendall County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.630, -88.450
Tornado, Lee
- When
- June 20, 1:15 PM CST
- Where
- Lee County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 41.830, -89.000
Hail, Cook
- When
- June 20, 1:30 PM CST
- Where
- Cook County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.770, -87.750
Hail, Cook
- When
- June 20, 1:30 PM CST
- Where
- Cook County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.780, -87.880
Hail, Kankakee
- When
- June 20, 3:32 PM CST
- Where
- Kankakee County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.170, -87.670
Hail, Fulton
- When
- June 20, 4:11 PM CST
- Where
- Fulton County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.700, -90.000
Hail, Tazewell
- When
- June 20, 4:11 PM CST
- Where
- Tazewell County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.700, -89.400
Hail, Tazewell
- When
- June 20, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Tazewell County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.530, -89.350
Hail, Tazewell
- When
- June 20, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Tazewell County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.430, -89.320
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 Colorado, June 20, 1975
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 20, 1975
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, June 20, 1975
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 20, 1975
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 20, 1975
- Hail in Indiana, June 20, 1975
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 20, 1975
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 20, 1975
- Hail in Michigan, June 20, 1975
- Hail in Ohio, June 20, 1975
- Hail in West Virginia, June 20, 1975
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 20, 1975
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: 10010312, 10010313, 10010314, 10010315, 10010316, 10010317, 10010318, 10010319, 10010320, 10010321, 10010322.