Tornado, Jasper
- When
- May 8, 1:01 PM CST to 1:21 PM CST
- Where
- Jasper County, Falmouth to Willow Hill
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 11 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.050, -88.150
Tornadoes in Illinois, May 8, 1996
A tornado briefly touched down near Falmouth, damaging one home and a barn. Then the tornado made brief touchdowns in fields as it travelled to the southeast, causing only minor damage to trees.
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
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
A tornado briefly touched down near Falmouth, damaging one home and a barn. Then the tornado made brief touchdowns in fields as it travelled to the southeast, causing only minor damage to trees. It then touched down 4 miles east of Willow Hill, destroying one home. The tornado then lifted and touched down once more, 3.8 miles south southeast of Oblong. It blew down a large tree onto a trailer, destroying it and destroyed a shed and numerous trees in the area. No injuries were reported and no damage estimate was available.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Crawford
- When
- May 8, 1:21 PM CST to 1:24 PM CST
- Where
- Crawford County, Oblong to 2 mi SSE of Oblong
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 4.8 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.000, -87.950
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.
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The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Nebraska, May 8, 1996
- Tornado in Indiana, May 8, 1996
- Tornado in Kentucky, May 8, 1996
- Tornado in Nebraska, May 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in Illinois, May 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, May 8, 1996
- Tornado in Nebraska, May 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in Ohio, May 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in Illinois, May 8, 1996
- Tornado in Indiana, May 8, 1996
- Tornado in Nebraska, May 8, 1996
- Tornado in Kentucky, May 8, 1996
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: 5559861, 5559862.