High Wind, Carroll
- When
- May 7, 10:30 PM CST to May 8, 1:00 AM CST
- Where
- Carroll forecast zone
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Coordinates
- 42.069, -89.934 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Illinois, May 7 to 8, 1997
Gradient winds behind a line of thunderstorms produced damage to area trees and power lines as they passed out of extreme eastern Iowa into northwest Illinois.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 4 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
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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 DVN wrote it up.
Gradient winds behind a line of thunderstorms produced damage to area trees and power lines as they passed out of extreme eastern Iowa into northwest Illinois.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
4 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Jo Daviess
- When
- May 7, 10:30 PM CST to May 8, 1:00 AM CST
- Where
- Jo Daviess forecast zone
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Coordinates
- 42.366, -90.212 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Stephenson
- When
- May 7, 10:30 PM CST to May 8, 1:00 AM CST
- Where
- Stephenson forecast zone
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Coordinates
- 42.352, -89.662 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Whiteside
- When
- May 7, 10:30 PM CST to May 8, 1:00 AM CST
- Where
- Whiteside forecast zone
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Coordinates
- 41.756, -89.914 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, May 7 to 8, 1997
- Tornado in Nebraska, May 7, 1997
- Hail in Kansas, May 7, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Iowa, May 7, 1997
- Hail in Kansas, May 7 to 26, 1997
- Tornado in Kansas, May 7, 1997
- Flood in Iowa, May 7, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Iowa, May 7, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 7, 1997
- Flood in Iowa, May 7, 1997
- Cold in West Virginia, May 7, 1997
- Hail in Iowa, May 7, 1997
More
Every storm in Illinois in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, May 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: 5597973, 5597974, 5597975, 5597976.