Tornado, Kankakee
- When
- April 19, 6:01 PM CST to 6:08 PM CST
- Where
- Kankakee County, Momence to 1 mi SE of Grant Park
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 5 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.150, -87.680
Tornado in Illinois, April 19, 1996
A tornado touched down briefly damaging the roof of a house southwest of Mommence along the Kankakee River. It touched down again briefly southeast of Grant Park, damaging the roof of another house.
Where it happened
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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.
What happened
The episode as NWS LOT wrote it up.
A tornado touched down briefly damaging the roof of a house southwest of Mommence along the Kankakee River. It touched down again briefly southeast of Grant Park, damaging the roof of another house.
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 61 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:02 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5540445.