20 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 8, 12:13 PM CST, 42 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 113 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2005 .DISCUSSION... PROBLEM TODAY IS THE MCS TODAY AND LITTLE CHANGE IN THE LONG TERM. SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT... MSAS DATA SHOWS VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS AHEAD OF APPROACHING MCS. STRONG COLD POOL DEVELOPED BEHIND IT. SEVERE POTENTIAL WITH BOW ECHO ON FORWARD EDGE OF LINE THAT INTERSECTED WITH OUTFLOW BOUNDARY THAT PUSHED SOUTH FROM NORTHWEST IL STORMS. NO CHANGES THROUGH FRIDAY...AS FRONT STAYS WEST OF AREA. DID NOT CHANGE POPS AS UNSTABLE TROPICAL AIRMASS REMAINS IN REGION. LONG TERM...SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... NO CHANGES IN SITUATION THROUGH MONDAY. FOR TUESDAY, THE GFSLR FINALLY BRINGS A SIGNIFICANT FRONT THROUGH STATE AND INTO THE EAST COAST BY WEDNESDAY. FOREIGN MODELS ALL DO NOT DRIVE THE FRONT THAT FAR AND WITH BERMUDA HIGH ANCHORED IN SOUTHEAST US, FEEL THE AGGRESIVE FRONTAL MOVEMENT IS WAY OUT OF LINE. THEREFORE MODIFIED WINDS ON TUESDAY TO WEDNESDAY, PLUS INCREASED THE TEMPERATURES AND DEW POINTS. && .ILX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IL...NONE. GOETSCH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1112 AM CDT WED JUN 8 2005 ILZ027>031-036>038-040>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-091100- 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 1112 AM CDT WED JUN 8 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OUT OF EAST-CENTRAL ILLINOIS BY AROUND NOON TODAY...HOWEVER...THIS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. A LARGE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL IOWA IS EXPECTED TO TRACK SOUTHEAST INTO CENTRAL ILLINOIS THIS AFTERNOON. THE AIR MASS AHEAD OF THESE STORMS WILL BECOME VERY UNSTABLE WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON BEING FROM DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND A LESSER THREAT OF HAIL. AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF THE ILLINOIS RIVER SHOULD SEE THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE IN BETWEEN 2 AND 4 PM...WITH LOCATIONS FURTHER EAST AND SOUTH SEEING THE STORMS DEVELOP AFTER 4 PM. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD SLOWLY DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS FROM THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AS A SERIES OF WEAK WEATHER DISTURBANCES INTERACTS WITH A VERY WARM AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS OVER THE MIDWEST. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS ON THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...ROUGHLY FROM 200 PM THROUGH 900 PM. HARDIMAN
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 76 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:54 UTC.
20 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous trees blown down in Galesburg. Two minor injuries occurred when a tree fell on a car.
A tornado briefly touched down and tore part of an outbuilding roof. No injuries or fatalities were reported.
Several tree limbs blown down.
Tree blown down.
Numerous power lines blown down.
A large tree limb was blown down onto a van. A roofer was blown off a roof and injured.
Numerous tree limbs blown down.
Two large trees blown down at New Salem State Park.
Numerous trees, power lines and a power pole blown down.
Several trees and a sign blown down at a middle school.
Numerous trees and power lines blown down.
Numerous power lines down.
A few power lines down.
Numerous trees and power lines down. Playground equipment destroyed.
Empty silo blown down.
Several tree limbs and power lines blown down.
5 power poles blown down.
Several tree limbs blown down.
Power lines blown down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Illinois in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Illinois, 2005Warnings in Illinois, June 2005
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: 5455208, 5455209, 5455210, 5455211, 5455212, 5455213, 5455298, 5455299, 5455300, 5455301, 5455302, 5455303, 5455304, 5455305, 5455306, 5455307, 5455308, 5455309, 5455310, 5455311, 5455312, 5455313, 5455314.