Hail, White
- When
- June 1, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- White County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.250, -88.350
Tornado and Hail in Illinois, June 1, 1981
2 hail, 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
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, White
- When
- June 1, 3:45 PM CST
- Where
- White County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 38.250, -88.330
Hail, Edwards
- When
- June 1, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Edwards County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.380, -88.050
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, June 1, 1981
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, June 1, 1981
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, June 1, 1981
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, June 1, 1981
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 1, 1981
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 1, 1981
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 1, 1981
- Hail in Indiana, June 1, 1981
- Hail in Kentucky, June 1, 1981
- Hail in South Dakota, June 1, 1981
More
Every storm in Illinois in 1981Every state in 1981This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Illinois, 1981
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: 10006463, 10006464, 10006465.