Thunderstorm Wind, Adams
- When
- July 4, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Adams County
- Coordinates
- 40.020, -91.400
Tornado and Hail in Illinois, July 4, 1985
8 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
- $250,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 13
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
8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Adams
- When
- July 4, 7:15 PM CST
- Where
- Adams County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.980, -91.150
Thunderstorm Wind, Greene
- When
- July 4, 8:45 PM CST
- Where
- Greene County
- Coordinates
- 39.300, -90.420
Thunderstorm Wind, Peoria
- When
- July 4, 8:45 PM CST
- Where
- Peoria County
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Coordinates
- 40.650, -89.770
Thunderstorm Wind, Kane
- When
- July 4, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Kane County
- Coordinates
- 41.880, -88.300
Thunderstorm Wind, Kane
- When
- July 4, 9:40 PM CST
- Where
- Kane County
- Coordinates
- 41.880, -88.300
Thunderstorm Wind, Tazewell
- When
- July 4, 9:45 PM CST
- Where
- Tazewell County
- Coordinates
- 40.600, -89.450
Tornado, Cook
- When
- July 4, 9:56 PM CST
- Where
- Cook County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1.5 mi
- Path width
- 230 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 42.050, -87.670
Thunderstorm Wind, Effingham
- When
- July 4, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Effingham County
- Coordinates
- 39.120, -88.530
Hail, Coles
- When
- July 4, 10:50 PM CST
- Where
- Coles County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.500, -88.230
Hail, Edgar
- When
- July 4, 11:25 PM CST
- Where
- Edgar County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.650, -87.870
Thunderstorm Wind, Edgar
- When
- July 4, 11:50 PM CST
- Where
- Edgar County
- Coordinates
- 39.800, -87.870
Hail, Douglas
- When
- July 4, 11:55 PM CST
- Where
- Douglas County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.680, -88.130
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.
- 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
- Tornado and Hail in Georgia, July 4, 1985
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, July 4, 1985
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 4, 1985
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 4, 1985
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 4, 1985
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 4, 1985
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 4, 1985
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, July 4, 1985
- Hail in Virginia, July 4, 1985
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, July 4, 1985
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, July 4, 1985
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: 10003342, 10003343, 10003344, 10003345, 10003346, 10003347, 10003348, 10003349, 10003350, 10003351, 10003352, 10003353, 10003354.