Storm History: Champaign County, Illinois
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Champaign County, Illinois: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.
The record
- Events
- 1,042
- Deaths
- 12
- Injuries
- 136
- Damage
- $239 million
- Episodes
- 560
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 428 | 2 | 64 | $108 million |
| Hail | 224 | 0 | 1 | $6.8 million |
| Flash Flood | 124 | 0 | 0 | $50 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 110 | 0 | 5 | $1.7 million |
| High Wind | 31 | 0 | 6 | $64,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 25 | 2 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 20 | 0 | 0 | |
| Drought | 13 | 0 | 0 | $73 million |
| Winter Weather | 10 | 3 | 8 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 9 | 1 | 0 | |
| Heat | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 7 | 0 | 0 | $24,000 |
| Ice Storm | 5 | 0 | 47 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 4 | 2 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 4 | 0 | 1 | $84,000 |
| Blizzard | 4 | 2 | 0 | $50,000 |
| Dust Storm | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| Flood | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dense Fog | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wildfire | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
- Winter Weather, February 5, 2010
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Blizzard, February 1, 2011
- Tornado, April 19, 1996
- Heavy Snow, December 15, 2007
- Heavy Snow, December 1, 2008
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 8, 2009
- Blizzard, December 12, 2010
- Winter Weather, December 4, 2016
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 30, 2017
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 20, 2024
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Drought, September 1, 2012
- Tornado, November 17, 2013
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2014
- Tornado, April 9, 1953
- Tornado, April 19, 1996
- Hail, July 11, 2020
- Tornado, March 20, 1976
- Tornado, June 20, 1990
- Tornado, July 13, 2004
- Flash Flood, February 20, 2018
- Flash Flood, May 21, 2014
- Tornado, September 9, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 24, 1997
- Hail, August 9, 2012
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Tornado, June 29, 1998
- Tornado, October 24, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 11, 2017
- Tornado, June 10, 2018
- Tornado, April 19, 2011
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Flash Flood, May 21, 2014
- Hail, November 17, 2013
- Hail, June 29, 2023
- Hail, April 8, 2020
- Hail, March 19, 2017
- Flash Flood, May 15, 2009
- Hail, March 12, 2006
- Hail, May 18, 2000
- Hail, April 10, 1981
- Hail, May 6, 1961
- Hail, May 15, 2025
- Hail, July 11, 2020
- Flash Flood, April 10, 2013
- Hail, August 13, 2011
- Hail, May 11, 2016
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, April 17, 1963
- Tornado, April 11, 1965
- Tornado, April 21, 1967
- Tornado, March 20, 1976
- Tornado, June 29, 1976
- Tornado, May 13, 1995
- Tornado, July 13, 2004
- Tornado, November 17, 2013
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Tornado, April 19, 1996
- Tornado, April 9, 1953
- Tornado, March 6, 1961
- Tornado, April 22, 1963
- Tornado, January 24, 1967
- Tornado, June 14, 1974
Every episode, newest first
- Tornado, June 17, 2026
- Hail, June 16, 2026
- Tornado, June 11, 2026
- Dust Storm, May 4, 2026
- Drought, April 1, 2026
- Dust Storm, March 26, 2026
- Hail, March 26, 2026
- Tornado, March 15, 2026
- Tornado, March 10, 2026
- Drought, March 1, 2026
- Hail, February 19, 2026
- Drought, February 1, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 26, 2026
- Heavy Snow, January 24, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 8, 2026
- Drought, January 1, 2026
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 13, 2025
- Drought, December 1, 2025
- Heavy Snow, November 29, 2025
- Drought, November 1, 2025
- Drought, October 1, 2025
- Drought, September 1, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 19, 2025
- Tornado, August 16, 2025
- Flash Flood, July 26, 2025
- Tornado, June 18, 2025
- Flash Flood, June 16, 2025
- Tornado, May 20, 2025
- Tornado, May 16, 2025
- High Wind, May 16, 2025
- Dust Storm, May 16, 2025
- Hail, May 15, 2025
- Tornado, May 13, 2025
- Tornado, April 2, 2025
- Dust Storm, March 28, 2025
- Tornado, March 19, 2025
- Tornado, March 14, 2025
- Winter Weather, January 10, 2025
- Heavy Snow, January 5, 2025
- Winter Weather, December 12, 2024
- Winter Weather, December 2, 2024
- Flash Flood, November 4, 2024
- Wildfire, October 29, 2024
- Hail, October 25, 2024
- High Wind, September 27, 2024
- Flash Flood, August 30, 2024
- Excessive Heat, August 27, 2024
- Tornado, July 15, 2024
- Hail, June 25, 2024
- Tornado, June 13, 2024
- Tornado, June 5, 2024
- Flash Flood, May 24, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 21, 2024
- Flash Flood, May 19, 2024
- Tornado, April 18, 2024
- Hail, March 4, 2024
- Ice Storm, January 22, 2024
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 20, 2024
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 13, 2024
- Excessive Heat, August 20, 2023
- Excessive Heat, July 27, 2023
- Drought, July 1, 2023
- Tornado, June 29, 2023
- Hail, June 29, 2023
- Drought, June 12, 2023
- Flash Flood, May 6, 2023
- Hail, April 15, 2023
- Hail, April 5, 2023
- Tornado, March 31, 2023
- High Wind, March 3, 2023
- Tornado, February 27, 2023
- Flash Flood, February 22, 2023
- Strong Wind, February 9, 2023
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 23, 2022
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 5, 2022
- Tornado, September 18, 2022
- Tornado, August 1, 2022
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2022
- Tornado, April 30, 2022
- Tornado, March 5, 2022
- Heavy Snow, February 17, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2022
- Tornado, December 10, 2021
- Hail, September 7, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 24, 2021
- Flash Flood, August 12, 2021
- Tornado, July 12, 2021
- Tornado, June 26, 2021
- Tornado, June 25, 2021
- Tornado, June 18, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 12, 2021
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 8, 2020
- Hail, August 10, 2020
- Tornado, July 21, 2020
- Flash Flood, July 19, 2020
- Hail, July 11, 2020
- Flash Flood, July 9, 2020
- Flash Flood, June 22, 2020
- Hail, June 20, 2020
- Strong Wind, June 9, 2020
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2020
- Hail, April 8, 2020
- High Wind, November 27, 2019
- Tornado, September 29, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 20, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 8, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 14, 2019
- Flash Flood, July 3, 2019
- Hail, June 30, 2019
- Tornado, May 28, 2019
- Tornado, May 25, 2019
- Tornado, May 22, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 19, 2019
- High Wind, February 24, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 18, 2019
- Heavy Snow, January 11, 2019
- High Wind, October 20, 2018
- Tornado, August 16, 2018
- Tornado, June 26, 2018
- Tornado, June 10, 2018
- Hail, May 31, 2018
- Hail, May 28, 2018
- Hail, May 9, 2018
- Heavy Snow, March 23, 2018
- Flash Flood, February 20, 2018
- Winter Weather, January 2, 2018
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 1, 2018
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 30, 2017
- Hail, September 4, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 11, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 29, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 19, 2017
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2017
- Hail, June 14, 2017
- Flash Flood, May 18, 2017
- Flash Flood, May 4, 2017
- Flood, May 1, 2017
- Tornado, April 29, 2017
- Flood, April 29, 2017
- Hail, April 10, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 30, 2017
- Hail, March 19, 2017
- Winter Weather, December 16, 2016
- Winter Weather, December 4, 2016
- Tornado, September 9, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 18, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 2016
- Hail, June 20, 2016
- Flash Flood, May 31, 2016
- Hail, May 11, 2016
- Hail, April 21, 2016
- High Wind, April 2, 2016
- Strong Wind, February 28, 2016
- Blizzard, February 24, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 23, 2015
- Hail, September 4, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 25, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 26, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2015
- Hail, June 20, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 18, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 14, 2015
- Hail, June 12, 2015
- Tornado, June 7, 2015
- Hail, May 10, 2015
- Tornado, April 9, 2015
- Hail, April 8, 2015
- Hail, April 8, 2015
- Heavy Snow, March 1, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 28, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 20, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 1, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 26, 2014
- Hail, July 14, 2014
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 3, 2014
- Flash Flood, May 21, 2014
- Tornado, February 20, 2014
- Heavy Snow, February 4, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 27, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 6, 2014
- Heavy Snow, January 4, 2014
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2013
- Hail, November 17, 2013
- Tornado, November 17, 2013
- Flash Flood, July 10, 2013
- Hail, June 25, 2013
- Hail, June 24, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 22, 2013
- Tornado, May 31, 2013
- Flash Flood, May 30, 2013
- Flash Flood, April 17, 2013
- Hail, April 16, 2013
- Flash Flood, April 10, 2013
- Heavy Snow, March 24, 2013
- High Wind, December 20, 2012
- Hail, September 21, 2012
- Hail, September 7, 2012
- Drought, September 1, 2012
- Hail, August 16, 2012
- Hail, August 9, 2012
- Drought, August 1, 2012
- Hail, July 31, 2012
- Excessive Heat, July 1, 2012
- Drought, July 1, 2012
- Excessive Heat, June 29, 2012
- Hail, June 16, 2012
- Hail, May 28, 2012
- Flash Flood, May 20, 2012
- Tornado, May 6, 2012
- Tornado, May 1, 2012
- Hail, March 23, 2012
- Strong Wind, February 29, 2012
- Hail, November 14, 2011
- Strong Wind, November 13, 2011
- Hail, August 23, 2011
- Hail, August 13, 2011
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2011
- Hail, May 28, 2011
- Tornado, May 25, 2011
- Tornado, May 25, 2011
- Tornado, May 7, 2011
- Tornado, April 19, 2011
- Hail, April 10, 2011
- Strong Wind, April 3, 2011
- Winter Weather, March 5, 2011
- Blizzard, February 1, 2011
- Blizzard, December 12, 2010
- Heavy Snow, December 3, 2010
- Lightning, November 25, 2010
- Winter Weather, November 24, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 26, 2010
- Hail, October 24, 2010
- Flash Flood, August 10, 2010
- Excessive Heat, August 9, 2010
- Excessive Heat, August 3, 2010
- Flash Flood, July 15, 2010
- Flash Flood, June 14, 2010
- Flash Flood, June 13, 2010
- Lightning, June 9, 2010
- Flash Flood, May 26, 2010
- Tornado, May 21, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 8, 2010
- Winter Weather, February 5, 2010
- Winter Storm, January 6, 2010
- Lightning, October 1, 2009
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Champaign CountyEvery warning in Champaign County since 1986Every county in Illinois
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.