Tornado, Marion
- When
- May 5, 5:05 PM CST to 5:07 PM CST
- Where
- Marion County, Kell to 2 mi SE of Kell
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 75 yd
- Injuries
- 4 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.500, -88.870
Tornado in Illinois, May 5, 1999
A brief tornado destroyed a mobile home, 2 outbuildings and downed several trees just east of Kell. The 4 occupants of the mobile home were treated for minor injuries.
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
- 4
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS LSX wrote it up.
A brief tornado destroyed a mobile home, 2 outbuildings and downed several trees just east of Kell. The 4 occupants of the mobile home were treated for minor injuries.
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.
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The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes in Tennessee, May 5, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Tennessee, May 5 to 9, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Tennessee, May 5, 1999
- Tornado in Indiana, May 5, 1999
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, May 5, 1999
- Tornado and Hail in North Carolina, May 5 to 6, 1999
- Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, May 5, 1999
- Tornado in Indiana, May 5, 1999
- Tornado and Hail in Georgia, May 5 to 6, 1999
- Flash Flood and Hail in Louisiana, May 5, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 5, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, May 5, 1999
More
Every storm in Illinois in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Illinois, 1999Warnings in Illinois, May 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: 5693766.