Tornado, Livingston
- When
- May 18, 4:35 PM CST
- Where
- Livingston County, Blackstone
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
- Coordinates
- 41.083, -88.683
Tornadoes in Illinois, May 18, 2000
A supercell thunderstorm moved east from northern Livingston County to Kankakee County, producing several brief tornado touchdowns. The first sighting was at Blackstone.
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
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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 LOT wrote it up.
A supercell thunderstorm moved east from northern Livingston County to Kankakee County, producing several brief tornado touchdowns. The first sighting was at Blackstone. State police reported a brief touchdown near Odell at I-55. The Kankakee County sheriff's department reported a tornado just west of Union Hill. A police officer who is also a trained spotter saw a tornado touch down near Herscher. Trees were blown down in and a flag pole was bent over in Herscher. A car was blown off the road and flipped over by high winds or possibly the tornado just west of Herscher.
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 77 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:34 UTC.
Event by event
4 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Livingston
- When
- May 18, 4:50 PM CST
- Where
- Livingston County, Odell
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.000, -88.517
Tornado, Kankakee
- When
- May 18, 5:10 PM CST
- Where
- Kankakee County, 1 mi W of Union Hill
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.117, -88.167
Tornado, Kankakee
- When
- May 18, 5:10 PM CST
- Where
- Kankakee County, 1 mi W of Herscher
- Measured
- 50
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.050, -88.117
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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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: 5144683, 5144684, 5144685, 5144686.