Funnel Cloud, Livingston
- When
- April 22, 5:55 PM CST
- Where
- Livingston County, Fairbury
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.892, -88.558 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel Cloud in Illinois, April 22, 2001
1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- 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 forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Chicago, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 22, 2:15 PM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 2:15 PM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 315 PM CDT SUN APR 22 2001 AFTERNOON SATLT LOOPS SHOW WARM FRONT EXTENDING FROM NEAR ALO-SQI-MDW-GYY WITH EXTENSIVE FIELD OF CU/TCU ALONG AND S OF WARM FRONT. WITH DWPOINTS POOED IN MIDDLE AND UPPER 60S ALONG THIS BOUNDARY AND TIME OF DAY FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE WITH TOTALLY DRY FCST THIS EVE SO WILL CONTINUE LO CHC POPS OF AN ISOLD SHWR OR TSTM THIS EVE. RADAR SHOWS A FEW CELLS OVER NWRN IN MOVG NEWD. BY FAR GREATEST FOCUS OF INSTABILITY AND CONVERGENCE IS LOCATED WELL TO W AND NW OF FA IN REGION OF SIGNIFICANT SFC PRESSURE FALLS. NEXT QUESTION ARISES WITH PRE COLD FRONTAL SQUALL LINE DUE IN LATE TONIGHT AND MONDAY. AT THIS TIME WILL BE RATHER VAGUE WITH CHC POPS AS PER MOS SINCE MANY SYNPOTIC/MESOSCALE INTERACTIONS MAY COME INTO PLAY THAT MAY SIGNIFICANTLY INFLUENCE TSTM CHANCES. THIS CAN BEST BE RESOLVED BY MID SHIFT TNGT WITH A LOOK AT NEW GUIDANCE AND AFTER SEEING HOW THIS EVENINGS CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAYS OUT. RIGHT NOW...WOULD EXPECT DYING SQLN TO PASS THRU NRN IL MON MRNG INTO ERLY AFTN...WITH POSSIBLE REGENERATION OVER EXTREME ERN PORTION OF CWA. FCST TEMPS GENLY qIN CLOSE AGREEMENT WITH MOS. .CHI...NONE MERZLOCK
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding in Minnesota, April 22 to 23, 2001
- Ice Storm in Minnesota, April 22 to 23, 2001
- Tornado in Nebraska, April 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Nebraska, April 22, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, April 22 to 23, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, April 22, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, April 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Dakota, April 22, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, April 22, 2001
- Winter Storm in South Dakota, April 22 to 23, 2001
- High Wind in Texas, April 22, 2001
- Winter Storm in South Dakota, April 22 to 23, 2001
More
Every storm in Illinois in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, April 2001
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: 5238885.