Tornado, Brown
- When
- August 12, 7:02 PM CST to 7:04 PM CST
- Where
- Brown County, Mt Sterling to 6 mi ENE of Mt Sterling
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 75 yd
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.020, -90.670
Tornado in Illinois, August 12, 1999
A small tornado caused damage east of Mt. Sterling near the town of Ripley.
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
- $20,000
- 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.
A small tornado caused damage east of Mt. Sterling near the town of Ripley. One home suffered the brunt of the damage losing its roof to the tornado. Trees were downed and storage buildings in the area were also damaged.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, August 12, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 12, 1999
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Tennessee, August 12, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, August 12, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, August 12, 1999
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, August 12, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, August 12, 1999
- Lightning Strike in South Dakota, August 12, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 12, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 12, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, August 12, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, August 12, 1999
More
Every storm in Illinois in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Illinois, 1999Warnings in Illinois, August 1999
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: 5718420.