Illinois

Storm History: Marshall County, Illinois

279 episodes, 397 events since 1965

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Marshall 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
397
Deaths
1
Injuries
5
Damage
$44 million
Episodes
279

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
Tornado10901$5.0 million
Hail6201$369,000
Thunderstorm Wind4800$269,000
Flash Flood4700$11 million
Heavy Snow2400
Winter Storm2200
Drought1500$21 million
Ice Storm1100$480,000
High Wind1002
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill900
Flood800$5.5 million
Heat700
Excessive Heat700
Strong Wind500$24,000
Blizzard400$75,000
Winter Weather410
Cold/Wind Chill200
Frost/Freeze100
Dense Fog100
Lightning101$90,000

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 Marshall County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Marshall CountyEvery warning in Marshall 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.