Tornado, Will
- When
- June 29, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Will County
- Path length
- 5.4 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 41.520, -88.230
Tornado and Hail in Illinois, June 29, 1979
1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 1
- 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
1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Champaign
- When
- June 29, 1:37 PM CST
- Where
- Champaign County
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Coordinates
- 40.030, -88.280
Hail, Ford
- When
- June 29, 2:15 PM CST
- Where
- Ford County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.750, -88.180
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.
- 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.
- 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kentucky, June 29, 1979
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 29, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 29, 1979
- Tornado and Hail in North Dakota, June 29, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 29, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 29, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, June 29, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Wyoming, June 29, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Minnesota, June 29, 1979
More
Every storm in Illinois in 1979Every state in 1979This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Illinois, 1979
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: 10007063, 10007064, 10007065.