High Wind, Will
- When
- April 30, 9:21 PM CST
- Where
- Will forecast zone
- Measured
- 43 kt (49 mph)
High Wind in Illinois, April 30, 1997
Very strong winds behind a cold front produced wind gusts to 45 to 65 mph across northern Illinois between 6pm and midnight. 00 damage to a strip mall under construction at Beecher in Eastern Will County, near the Indiana state line.
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.
Very strong winds behind a cold front produced wind gusts to 45 to 65 mph across northern Illinois between 6pm and midnight. High winds caused an estimated $80,000.00 damage to a strip mall under construction at Beecher in Eastern Will County, near the Indiana state line.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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
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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: 5593455.