Hail, White
- When
- August 17, 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- White County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.080, -88.170
Hail in Illinois, August 17, 1978
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
- None recorded
- 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 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- 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 Minnesota, August 17, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 17, 1978
- Hail in North Dakota, August 17, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, August 17, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, August 17, 1978
- Hail in Iowa, August 17, 1978
- Hail in Indiana, August 17, 1978
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, August 17, 1978
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, August 17, 1978
- Tornado in Florida, August 17, 1978
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 17, 1978
- Hail in Nebraska, August 17, 1978
More
Every storm in Illinois in 1978Every state in 1978This day in weather history
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: 10004679.