Illinois

Storm History: Piatt County, Illinois

273 episodes, 350 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Piatt 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
350
Deaths
2
Injuries
15
Damage
$44 million
Episodes
273

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
Tornado126110$8.9 million
Hail6300$514,000
Flash Flood3700$2.0 million
Heavy Snow2200
Thunderstorm Wind1800$129,000
Winter Storm1800$400,000
Drought1600$32 million
High Wind1000$33,000
Heat700
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Excessive Heat700
Ice Storm400
Blizzard400$10,000
Winter Weather415
Cold/Wind Chill200
Dust Storm200
Flood100
Frost/Freeze100
Dense Fog100

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 Piatt County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Piatt CountyEvery warning in Piatt 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.