Hail, Rock Island
- When
- April 15, 2:45 PM CST
- Where
- Rock Island County, East Moline
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.520, -90.470
Tornadoes and Hail in Illinois, April 15, 1998
Strong thunderstorms pushed across western Illinois producing hail, 2 brief tornadoes and numerous funnel cloud reports. A tornado south of Hooppole did minor damage to a corn field while no damage was reported with the tornado west of Viola..
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
- $100
- Events
- 3
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.
Strong thunderstorms pushed across western Illinois producing hail, 2 brief tornadoes and numerous funnel cloud reports. A tornado south of Hooppole did minor damage to a corn field while no damage was reported with the tornado west of Viola..
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 14 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:43 UTC.
Event by event
2 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Henry
- When
- April 15, 2:50 PM CST
- Where
- Henry County, 2 mi S of Hooppole
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 1 yd
- Crop damage
- $100
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.530, -89.920
Tornado, Mercer
- When
- April 15, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Mercer County, 1 mi W of Viola
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 1 yd
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 41.200, -90.600
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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
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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: 5662163, 5662164, 5662165.