High Wind, Knox
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Knox forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 40.932, -90.213 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Illinois, March 25, 1996
Strong gradient winds caused minor damage across Central Illinois and caused a bizzare accident which killed one person. Winds gusting to between 40 and 55 mph caused a bedliner and a concrete block to be blown from the bed of the pickup truck.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 35 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- 1
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 35
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 ILX wrote it up.
Strong gradient winds caused minor damage across Central Illinois and caused a bizzare accident which killed one person. Winds gusting to between 40 and 55 mph caused a bedliner and a concrete block to be blown from the bed of the pickup truck. The concrete block was thrown through the windshield of a car travelling in the opposite direction. The block hit the driver's chest killing him. The winds blew down numerous power lines, tore off the roof of a building in Rushville, and metal shething and insulation from the roof of a mobile home was blown off in Bloomington.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
35 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Stark
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Stark forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 41.093, -89.797 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Peoria
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Peoria forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 40.788, -89.760 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Marshall
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Marshall forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 41.033, -89.345 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Woodford
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Woodford forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 40.788, -89.211 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Fulton
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Fulton forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 40.473, -90.207 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Tazewell
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Tazewell forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 40.508, -89.513 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, McLean
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- McLean forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 40.491, -88.847 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Schuyler
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Schuyler forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 40.158, -90.615 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Mason
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Mason forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 40.240, -89.917 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Logan
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Logan forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 40.125, -89.367 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, De Witt
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- De Witt forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 40.175, -88.904 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Piatt
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Piatt forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 40.010, -88.591 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Champaign
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Champaign forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 40.140, -88.199 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Vermilion
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Vermilion forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 40.183, -87.733 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Cass
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cass forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 39.974, -90.247 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Menard
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Menard forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 40.027, -89.802 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Scott
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Scott forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 39.644, -90.475 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Morgan
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Morgan forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 39.716, -90.201 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Sangamon
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Sangamon forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 39.758, -89.659 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Christian
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Christian forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 39.546, -89.277 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Macon
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Macon forecast zone
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Coordinates
- 39.860, -88.962 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Moultrie
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Moultrie forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 39.642, -88.619 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Douglas
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Douglas forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 39.770, -88.217 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Coles
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Coles forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 39.520, -88.222 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Edgar
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Edgar forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 39.679, -87.746 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Shelby
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Shelby forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 39.391, -88.805 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Cumberland
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cumberland forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 39.273, -88.240 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Clark
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Clark forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 39.334, -87.788 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Effingham
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Effingham forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 39.060, -88.590 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Jasper
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Jasper forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 39.010, -88.154 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Crawford
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Crawford forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 39.003, -87.760 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Clay
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Clay forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 38.754, -88.490 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Richland
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Richland forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 38.712, -88.085 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Lawrence
- When
- March 25, 4:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lawrence forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 38.720, -87.727 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
The people who died
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Wind, Macon | 1996-03-25 | 62 | Male | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Direct |
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Blizzard in Iowa, March 25, 1996
- High Wind in Ohio, March 25, 1996
- High Wind in New York, March 25, 1996
- High Wind in Michigan, March 25, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, March 25, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, March 25, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, March 25, 1996
- High Wind in Illinois, March 25, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 25, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, March 25, 1996
- Damaging Wind in New York, March 25, 1996
- High Wind in Indiana, March 25, 1996
More
Every storm in Illinois in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, March 1996
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: 5539808, 5539809, 5539810, 5539811, 5539812, 5539813, 5539814, 5539815, 5539816, 5539817, 5539818, 5539819, 5539820, 5539821, 5539822, 5539823, 5539824, 5539825, 5539826, 5539827, 5539828, 5539829, 5539830, 5539831, 5539832, 5539833, 5539834, 5539835, 5539836, 5539837, 5539838, 5539839, 5539840, 5539841, 5539842.