Illinois

Storm History: Cumberland County, Illinois

201 episodes, 255 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cumberland 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
255
Deaths
2
Injuries
11
Damage
$26 million
Episodes
201

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
Tornado8605$519,000
Flash Flood4300$628,000
Hail3801$223,000
Heavy Snow1504
Thunderstorm Wind1301$83,000
Winter Storm1200
High Wind700$14,000
Heat700
Drought700$24 million
Excessive Heat600
Flood500$100,000
Blizzard410$1.0 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Cold/Wind Chill200
Ice Storm200
Winter Weather210
Frost/Freeze100
Dense Fog100

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 Cumberland County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Cumberland CountyEvery warning in Cumberland 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.