Illinois, 2002Tornado in Illinois, June 11, 2002
June 11, 2002 · NWS LSX · 1 event in 1 county or zone
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- 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 St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 10, 7:15 PM CST, 19 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 7:15 PM CST, 19 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
815 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2002
AREA OF TSRA HAS WEAKENED AND MOVD E OF FA WITH MSTLY CLR SKIES
ATTIM. SUM CLDS OVR NW MO MAY MOV BACK INTO RGN AFT MDNGT. HV
REMOVED MENTN OF PCPN IN TNGT PDS ALL ZNS AND WL WORD FOR INCRG
CLDNS LATE. NO OTHR CHGS ATTIM.
.STL...NONE
WDB
Tornado, Pike
- When
- June 11, 2:15 PM CST
- Where
- Pike County, Rockport
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.7 mi
- Path width
- 60 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.533, -91.017
A small tornado hit the south side of the Rockport area. The roof of the Post Office was heavily damaged and several trees were downed.
- 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.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, June 11 to 12, 2002$2.3 million · F0 · 86 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 11 to 12, 2002$61,000 · 1.75 in hail · 43 events
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, June 11, 2002$250,000 · 1.75 in hail · 3 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, June 11, 2002$100,000 · 1.5 in hail · 8 events
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Illinois, June 11, 20021 injured · F0 · 13 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Colorado, June 11, 20021.75 in hail · 12 events
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, June 11, 20021 injured · 55 kt wind · 3 events
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 11, 20021 injured · 57 kt wind · 1 event
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 11 to 12, 20021.75 in hail · 9 events
- Flash Flood in Missouri, June 11 to 12, 20021 injured · 1 event
- Flash Flood in Minnesota, June 11, 2002$14,000 · 1 event
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 11, 20021.75 in hail · 5 events
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: 5298118.