Illinois, 1998

Tornado in Illinois, April 7, 1998

April 7, 1998 · NWS ILX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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.

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 69 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:33 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Mason

When
April 7, 3:35 PM CST to 3:40 PM CST
Where
Mason County, Bath
Rating
F1
Path length
0.3 mi
Path width
180 yd
Coordinates
40.200, -90.150

The tornado touched down on the south side of town and moved north. A frame house received damage to the middle part of the roof and an unattached garage was destroyed. The garage debris was deposited on a neighbor's roof. The tornado continued north through town, snapping off telephone poles and took half the roof off of another house. Debris from this roof was thrown half a mile and landed next to the Illinois River. Exterior walls of this house were also buckled inward up to three feet. Another unattached garage was destroyed, part of the roof of the Bath Firehouse was torn off, and numerous 3 to 4 foot diameter trees were uprooted. Several more homes and businesses sustained minor damage with siding, shingle, and fence damage before the tornado lifted and dissipated. In Bath, nine homes were severely damaged with a total of 43 homes receiving some kind of damage. No injuries were reported and no damage estimate was available.

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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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: 5641378.