Tornado, Livingston
- When
- August 19, 3:45 PM CST
- Where
- Livingston County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 12.5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.080, -88.430
Tornado and Hail in Illinois, August 19, 1979
1 tornado, 1 hail, 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Carroll
- When
- August 19, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Carroll County
- Measured
- 2.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.800, -87.930
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 Damaging Wind in New Mexico, August 19, 1979
- Tornado in Nevada, August 19, 1979
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, August 19, 1979
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 19, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Texas, August 19, 1979
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 19, 1979
- Hail in Indiana, August 19, 1979
- Hail in Colorado, August 19, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 19, 1979
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: 10007096, 10007097.