Illinois

Storm History: Jersey County, Illinois

322 episodes, 388 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jersey 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
388
Deaths
3
Injuries
2
Damage
$6.0 million
Episodes
322

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
Hail8800$150,000
Tornado7112$5.7 million
Thunderstorm Wind5900$4,000
Winter Storm3300
Heat2400
Excessive Heat2400
Flash Flood2320$56,000
Flood1900$49,000
Heavy Snow1200
Drought1000
High Wind700$16,000
Ice Storm300
Winter Weather300
Cold/Wind Chill300
Heavy Rain200
Sleet200
Blizzard200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Frost/Freeze100
Strong Wind100$1,000

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 Jersey County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Jersey CountyEvery warning in Jersey 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.