6 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 10, 1:45 AM CST, 11 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 245 AM CDT THU JUN 10 2004 .DISCUSSION...00Z ETA AND GFS CONTINUE TO SLOW DOWN FRONTAL BOUNDARY AS RIDGE OVER SOUTHEASTERN U.S. HOLDS FIRM. AS HAS BEEN THE CASE FOR THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS...THE MAIN FORECAST PROBLEM OF THE DAY IS WHEN WILL IT RAIN AND HOW MUCH...ESPECIALLY FOR TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY. SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY... SHOWERS...WITH LITTLE OR NO LIGHTNING...HAVE FINALLY DEVELOPED ON NOSE OF 30 TO 35 KT LOW LEVEL JET OVER NORTHEAST MO...SOUTHEAST IA...WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AREA. WILL BUMP UP POPS TO OCCASIONAL OVER NORTHERN PORTIONS OF CWA TODAY WITH MENTION OF HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE...AS I DO NOT FEEL THAT A FLOOD WATCH IS NEEDED AT THIS TIME. WILL KEEP LIKELY MENTION IN CENTRAL SECTIONS AND CHANCE POPS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES ALONG AND SOUTH OF I-70. AS FOR THE 00Z ETA AND GFS...PREFER ETA/S HANDLING OF THE SYSTEM SO FAR AND IT KEEPS BOUNDARY OVER NORTHERN ILLINOIS THROUGH THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS...THUS BEST CHANCES OF PCPN WILL BE IN THIS AREA. BY TONIGHT...ETA KEEPS BOUNDARY IN A SOMEWHAT NW TO SE ORIENTATION AND LIFTS IT EVER SO SLIGHTLY TO THE NORTH OF CWA...SO WILL HAVE BEST CHANCES IN THE NORTH...BUT KEPT CHANCE MENTION IN THE SOUTHERN HALF OF CWA...WITH PLENTY OF MOISTURE...LIFT AND INSTABILITY OVER THE REGION. HOWEVER...BY FRIDAY...BOUNDARY IS FAR ENOUGH TO THE NORTH THAT AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF I-74 SHOULD SEE A RELATIVELY DRY DAY...SO LOWERED POPS TO SLIGHT CHANCE CATEGORY IN THIS AREA. SO WITH LESS PCPN AND CLOUDS OVER THE AREA...RAISED HIGH TEMPS A DEGREE OR TWO MOST LOCATIONS. FRIDAY NIGHT...CWA TO START TO SEE CHANGES IN THE PATTERN AS RIDGE BEGINS TO BREAK DOWN AND A WEAK LOW DEVELOPS ALONG FRONTAL BOUNDARY OVER NORTHERN PORTIONS OF CWA...BRINGING IN ANOTHER ROUND OF PCPN THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING...BEFORE LOW WEAKENS AND LIFTS OFF TO THE NORTHEAST. DID CONTINUE SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR SATURDAY WITH WARM AND HUMID CONDITIONS IN FULL FORCE...BEFORE FINAL PUSH OF THE FRONT INTO THE REGION ON SUNDAY. LONG TERM...SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... FRONT WILL SLOWLY PUSH THROUGH THE STATE ON SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT WITH LINGERING CHANCES ON MONDAY BEFORE WE BEGIN TO DRY OUT ONCE AGAIN. JUST MADE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO THE EXTENDED. && .ILX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IL...NONE. && BYRD
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1235 PM CDT THU JUN 10 2004 ILZ027>031-036>038-040>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-111100- CASS-CHAMPAIGN-CHRISTIAN-CLARK-CLAY-COLES-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND- DE WITT-DOUGLAS-EDGAR-EFFINGHAM-FULTON-JASPER-KNOX-LAWRENCE-LOGAN- MACON-MARSHALL-MASON-MCLEAN-MENARD-MORGAN-MOULTRIE-PEORIA-PIATT- RICHLAND-SANGAMON-SCHUYLER-SCOTT-SHELBY-STARK-TAZEWELL-VERMILION- WOODFORD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BLOOMINGTON...CHAMPAIGN...DANVILLE... DECATUR...EFFINGHAM...FLORA...GALESBURG...HAVANA...JACKSONVILLE... LAWRENCEVILLE...LINCOLN...MATTOON...PEORIA...SHELBYVILLE... SPRINGFIELD AND TAYLORVILLE 1235 PM CDT THU JUN 10 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON ALONG AND NORTH OF THE I-74 CORRIDOR. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF I-74 THIS AFTERNOON...AND ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO MID EVENING UNTIL SUNSET ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HIGH WINDS...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS OF 1 TO 1.5 INCHES...AND A POSSIBLE TORNADO WITH LARGE HAIL. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DIMINISH AND SHIFT NORTH OF THE AREA LATER THIS EVENING CLOSER TO A QUASI STATIONARY FRONT OVER NORTHERN ILLINOIS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND. IT APPEARS THE GREATEST LIKELIHOOD FOR ORGANIZED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE MIDWEST. THE FRONT SHOULD PUSH EAST OF THE STATE MONDAY MORNING...TAKING THE THREAT FOR THUNDERSTORMS AWAY FROM CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO MID EVENING FROM 3 TO 9 PM. && THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGIC AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT: HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/ILX. THIS ADDRESS IS ALL IN LOWER CASE. HUETTL/SMITH
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:57 UTC.
6 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 flash flood, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado briefly touched down in a field. No damage or injuries were reported.
A tornado briefly touched down in a field. No damage or injuries were reported.
A tornado touched down 3 miles south southeast of Sidney and traveled to the southeast. As it neared the intersection of county road 600 N and 2300 E it blew out several windows of a house and took the roof off of a barn. Also, a chicken house was blown away. Several power lines and tree limbs were blown down as well. The tornado lifted and dissipated 4 miles north of Broadlands. No injuries were reported.
A tornado touched down in a field and traveled to the southeast before lifting and dissipating. No damage or injuries were reported.
A tree and several large tree limbs were blown down.
Brief heavy rain fell causing several roads in Jamaica to become flooded.
Numerous large tree limbs were blown down.
A tornado briefly touched down in a field. No damage or injuries were reported.
Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous tree limbs and power lines as well as a couple of trees. Also, a scoreboard at a college was bent over and a baseball dugout had its roof blown off.
Several trees and power lines were blown down.
Very heavy rain caused flooding in Danville as well as county roads including IL Route 119 east of IL Route 1.
Several roads were briefly flooded due to heavy rains.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Illinois in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Illinois, 2004Warnings in Illinois, June 2004
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: 5407315, 5407316, 5407317, 5407319, 5407318, 5407320, 5407321, 5407322, 5407324, 5407325, 5407323, 5407326, 5407327, 5407328, 5407392, 5407393.