Illinois

Storm History: Massac County, Illinois

752 episodes, 805 events since 1979

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Massac 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
805
Deaths
6
Injuries
80
Damage
$50 million
Episodes
752

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.

Open the live radar over Massac County

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
Dense Fog11200
Flood10100$1.7 million
Hail6905$617,000
Tornado63458$18 million
Thunderstorm Wind6213$1.1 million
Strong Wind5200$75,000
Heat51110
Frost/Freeze4800$25,000
Winter Weather4500
Flash Flood3900$2.6 million
Winter Storm3500$13 million
Drought3500$3.5 million
Excessive Heat3300
Heavy Snow1500
Cold/Wind Chill1000
High Wind900$9.2 million
Ice Storm600$25,000
Funnel Cloud500
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Lightning404$40,000
Heavy Rain300
Freezing Fog300
Dust Storm100$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 Massac County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Massac CountyEvery warning in Massac 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.