Tornado in Illinois, January 21, 1999

Name: Tornado in Illinois, January 21, 1999
Start: 1999-01-21T19:13
End: 1999-01-21T19:14
Location: Illinois

January 21, 1999 · NWS PAH · 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: $1,000
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.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Union

When: January 21, 7:13 PM CST to 7:14 PM CST
Where: Union County, Anna to 1 mi NE of Anna
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.3 mi
Path width: 30 yd
Property damage: $1,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 37.470, -89.250

A state police officer reported a brief touchdown near Anna. Damage was minimal, with just some fencing blown down.

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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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Illinois in 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Illinois, 1999 Warnings in Illinois, January 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: 5682068.