Tornado, Adams
- When
- April 5, 1:30 PM CST to 1:35 PM CST
- Where
- Adams County, (Uin)quincy Muni Arp to 1 mi SE of (Uin)quincy Muni Arp
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Coordinates
- 39.930, -91.200
Tornado in Illinois, April 5, 1997
Eyewitnesses reported a small tornado which caused damage on a couple of farms near the Quincy Airport. Several farm buildings were damaged as were some grain silos.
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
- $10,000
- 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 LSX wrote it up.
Eyewitnesses reported a small tornado which caused damage on a couple of farms near the Quincy Airport. Several farm buildings were damaged as were some grain silos. A garage was nearly destroyed damaging the truck inside. Three window wells on a home were pulled from the ground and found about 150 feet away.
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 144 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:29 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.
The same day elsewhere
- Blizzard in North Dakota, April 5 to 6, 1997
- Blizzard in South Dakota, April 5 to 6, 1997
- Blizzard in Minnesota, April 5 to 6, 1997
- Flood in North Dakota, April 5 to 8, 1997
- Flash Flood in Arkansas, April 5, 1997
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, April 5, 1997
- Flood in Minnesota, April 5 to 8, 1997
- Flood in Minnesota, April 5 to 9, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, April 5, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, April 5, 1997
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, April 5, 1997
- Blizzard in Nebraska, April 5 to 6, 1997
More
Every storm in Illinois in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Illinois, 1997Warnings in Illinois, April 1997
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: 5593274.