Illinois

Storm History: Pulaski County, Illinois

738 episodes, 768 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pulaski 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
768
Deaths
4
Injuries
16
Damage
$32 million
Episodes
738

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
Flood12010$6.2 million
Dense Fog11700
Hail6300$141,000
Heat5600
Strong Wind5300$52,000
Frost/Freeze4800$30,000
Winter Weather4500
Thunderstorm Wind4200$435,000
Tornado39115$4.2 million
Drought3600$3.5 million
Winter Storm3410$11 million
Excessive Heat3400
Flash Flood2611$496,000
Heavy Snow1600
Cold/Wind Chill1200
High Wind900$6.0 million
Ice Storm600$10,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Freezing Fog400
Funnel Cloud300
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 Pulaski County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Pulaski CountyEvery warning in Pulaski 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.