Illinois

Storm History: Crawford County, Illinois

273 episodes, 362 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Crawford 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
362
Deaths
9
Injuries
15
Damage
$38 million
Episodes
273

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.

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Every year

From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado107311$3.0 million
Hail7300$919,000
Flash Flood6331$2.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind4000$307,000
Winter Storm1411
Heavy Snow1302
High Wind800
Flood800$300,000
Drought800$30 million
Heat700
Excessive Heat710
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Cold/Wind Chill200
Blizzard200$600,000
Sleet100
Ice Storm100
Frost/Freeze100
Dense Fog100
Strong Wind100$25,000
Winter Weather110
Lightning100$100,000

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Crawford County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Crawford CountyEvery warning in Crawford 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.