Illinois

Storm History: Macoupin County, Illinois

464 episodes, 649 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Macoupin 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
649
Deaths
4
Injuries
19
Damage
$9.5 million
Episodes
464

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
Hail23901$5.9 million
Tornado143115$1.2 million
Thunderstorm Wind10200$196,000
Flash Flood3900$26,000
Winter Storm3000$2.0 million
Heat2300
Excessive Heat2300
Heavy Snow1300
High Wind700$6,000
Drought600
Lightning520$100,000
Ice Storm400
Cold/Wind Chill300
Heavy Rain200
Winter Weather200
Blizzard200
Flood100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill110
Frost/Freeze100
Dense Fog103
Sleet100
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 Macoupin County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Macoupin CountyEvery warning in Macoupin 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.