Illinois

Storm History: Livingston County, Illinois

387 episodes, 563 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Livingston 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
563
Deaths
4
Injuries
18
Damage
$13 million
Episodes
387

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
Tornado180118$10 million
Hail10100$27,000
Thunderstorm Wind5100$166,000
Flash Flood4810$2.0 million
Flood4110$250,000
Winter Storm3700
Drought1900
High Wind1600$5,000
Heavy Snow1200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1100
Excessive Heat1100
Winter Weather800
Cold/Wind Chill700
Ice Storm600
Blizzard400
Strong Wind300$26,000
Funnel Cloud300
Heat200
Heavy Rain100
Lightning110
Dust Storm100

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 Livingston County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Livingston CountyEvery warning in Livingston 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.