Illinois

Storm History: Jasper County, Illinois

225 episodes, 301 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jasper 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
301
Deaths
0
Injuries
13
Damage
$38 million
Episodes
225

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
Tornado7407$1.6 million
Flash Flood6802$1.3 million
Hail6600$500,000
Thunderstorm Wind2702$386,000
Winter Storm1302
Heavy Snow1200
Drought800$34 million
Heat700
Excessive Heat600
Flood500
High Wind400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Cold/Wind Chill200
Ice Storm200
Frost/Freeze100
Dense Fog100
Blizzard100$600,000
Winter Weather100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Jasper County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Jasper CountyEvery warning in Jasper 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.