Illinois

Storm History: Richland County, Illinois

215 episodes, 275 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Richland 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
275
Deaths
1
Injuries
9
Damage
$32 million
Episodes
215

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
Tornado7006$5.9 million
Hail6100$299,000
Flash Flood4700$215,000
Thunderstorm Wind3200$227,000
Winter Storm1300
Heavy Snow1000
Heat810
Drought800$25 million
High Wind600$47,000
Excessive Heat600
Flood300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Cold/Wind Chill200
Sleet100
Ice Storm100
Frost/Freeze100
Dense Fog100
Lightning103$62,000
Blizzard100$300,000

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 Richland County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Richland CountyEvery warning in Richland 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.