Thunderstorm Wind, Saline
- When
- April 20, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Saline County
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Coordinates
- 37.820, -88.550
Tornado and Damaging Winds in Illinois, April 20, 1976
2 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 2
- Property damage
- $25,000
- 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 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, La Salle
- When
- April 20, 5:29 PM CST
- Where
- La Salle County
- Coordinates
- 41.230, -88.620
Tornado, Lake
- When
- April 20, 7:45 PM CST
- Where
- Lake County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.8 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 42.450, -87.830
What these are
- 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.
- 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
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Louisiana, April 20, 1976
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, April 20, 1976
- Tornadoes and Hail in Arkansas, April 20, 1976
- Tornado and Hail in Missouri, April 20, 1976
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, April 20, 1976
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 20, 1976
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, April 20, 1976
More
Every storm in Illinois in 1976Every state in 1976This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Illinois, 1976
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: 10003164, 10003165, 10003166.