Storm History: Richland County, Illinois
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 70 | 0 | 6 | $5.9 million |
| Hail | 61 | 0 | 0 | $299,000 |
| Flash Flood | 47 | 0 | 0 | $215,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 32 | 0 | 0 | $227,000 |
| Winter Storm | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 8 | 1 | 0 | |
| Drought | 8 | 0 | 0 | $25 million |
| High Wind | 6 | 0 | 0 | $47,000 |
| Excessive Heat | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sleet | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dense Fog | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 1 | 0 | 3 | $62,000 |
| Blizzard | 1 | 0 | 0 | $300,000 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Drought, September 1, 2012
- Tornado, February 25, 1956
- Tornado, August 3, 1991
- Blizzard, February 1, 2011
- Tornado, March 15, 1984
- Tornado, June 2, 1990
- Tornado, May 18, 1995
- Tornado, November 5, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 2016
- Hail, April 28, 2017
- Lightning, May 7, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 22, 2017
- Tornado, April 15, 1994
- Flash Flood, June 15, 2010
- Hail, May 23, 2011
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2011
- Hail, April 8, 2020
- High Wind, April 6, 2016
- Flash Flood, January 12, 2005
- Hail, May 7, 2016
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, August 26, 2000
- Hail, April 8, 2020
- Flash Flood, August 1, 2022
- Hail, January 17, 2012
- Hail, June 18, 2009
- Hail, June 26, 2006
- Flash Flood, June 11, 2018
- Hail, May 23, 2011
- Hail, June 9, 2008
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- Flash Flood, May 27, 2004
- Hail, April 24, 2003
- Hail, May 25, 2002
- Hail, February 27, 1999
- Hail, May 5, 1999
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, February 25, 1956
- Tornado, June 2, 1990
- Tornado, May 21, 1957
- Tornado, March 31, 2023
- Tornado, November 26, 1965
- Tornado, May 9, 1990
- Tornado, May 18, 1995
- Tornado, April 15, 1998
- Tornado, June 1, 1999
- Tornado, October 24, 2001
- Tornado, May 25, 2011
- Tornado, June 29, 2023
- Tornado, May 26, 2024
- Tornado, June 21, 2026
Every episode, newest first
- Tornado, June 21, 2026
- Tornado, March 15, 2026
- Tornado, March 10, 2026
- Drought, March 1, 2026
- Tornado, February 19, 2026
- Drought, February 1, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 26, 2026
- Heavy Snow, January 24, 2026
- Heavy Snow, January 5, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 1, 2024
- Hail, July 30, 2024
- Tornado, May 26, 2024
- Hail, March 4, 2024
- Excessive Heat, August 20, 2023
- Excessive Heat, July 27, 2023
- Tornado, June 29, 2023
- Tornado, March 31, 2023
- Hail, March 23, 2023
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 23, 2022
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2022
- Flash Flood, August 1, 2022
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2022
- Tornado, June 17, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2022
- Tornado, October 11, 2021
- Tornado, May 6, 2021
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2021
- Hail, April 8, 2020
- Hail, March 3, 2020
- Tornado, May 23, 2019
- Flash Flood, September 7, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 11, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 31, 2018
- Tornado, November 5, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 22, 2017
- Tornado, May 10, 2017
- Flash Flood, May 4, 2017
- Flood, May 1, 2017
- Tornado, April 29, 2017
- Flood, April 29, 2017
- Hail, April 28, 2017
- Hail, April 5, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 2016
- Hail, May 7, 2016
- Tornado, April 27, 2016
- High Wind, April 6, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 23, 2015
- Tornado, June 19, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 19, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 15, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 26, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 6, 2014
- Heavy Snow, January 4, 2014
- Winter Storm, December 5, 2013
- Flash Flood, July 20, 2013
- Flash Flood, July 1, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 23, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 22, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 1, 2013
- Tornado, May 31, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 29, 2013
- Heavy Snow, December 26, 2012
- High Wind, December 20, 2012
- Hail, September 7, 2012
- Drought, September 1, 2012
- Drought, August 1, 2012
- Excessive Heat, July 1, 2012
- Drought, July 1, 2012
- Excessive Heat, June 29, 2012
- Drought, June 19, 2012
- Hail, January 17, 2012
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2011
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2011
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2011
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2011
- Heat, June 6, 2011
- Tornado, May 25, 2011
- Hail, May 23, 2011
- Tornado, April 19, 2011
- Blizzard, February 1, 2011
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2011
- Excessive Heat, August 9, 2010
- Excessive Heat, August 3, 2010
- Hail, July 19, 2010
- Flash Flood, June 27, 2010
- Flash Flood, June 15, 2010
- Flash Flood, June 14, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 27, 2010
- Hail, May 12, 2010
- Flash Flood, July 16, 2009
- Hail, June 18, 2009
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2009
- Tornado, May 13, 2009
- Hail, April 5, 2009
- Tornado, March 8, 2009
- Heavy Snow, January 26, 2009
- Hail, June 27, 2008
- Tornado, June 15, 2008
- Hail, June 9, 2008
- Tornado, May 27, 2008
- Lightning, May 7, 2008
- Flash Flood, February 5, 2008
- Dense Fog, February 4, 2008
- Hail, January 29, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 18, 2007
- Drought, October 1, 2007
- Drought, September 1, 2007
- Frost/Freeze, April 5, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 10, 2006
- Heat, August 1, 2006
- Heat, July 30, 2006
- Hail, June 26, 2006
- Hail, June 20, 2006
- Tornado, May 24, 2006
- Tornado, April 18, 2006
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- Flash Flood, March 9, 2006
- Heat, July 22, 2005
- Hail, June 30, 2005
- Hail, May 19, 2005
- Tornado, April 22, 2005
- Flash Flood, January 12, 2005
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2004
- Flash Flood, July 22, 2004
- Tornado, May 30, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 27, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 26, 2004
- Ice Storm, January 25, 2004
- Tornado, September 26, 2003
- Hail, August 3, 2003
- Hail, April 24, 2003
- Sleet, February 16, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 9, 2002
- Hail, May 25, 2002
- Flood, May 12, 2002
- Flash Flood, May 8, 2002
- Tornado, May 1, 2002
- Tornado, October 24, 2001
- Flash Flood, June 5, 2001
- Winter Storm, December 13, 2000
- Hail, August 26, 2000
- Tornado, August 23, 2000
- Flash Flood, July 4, 2000
- Heavy Snow, March 11, 2000
- Heat, July 28, 1999
- Heat, July 20, 1999
- Flash Flood, July 1, 1999
- Tornado, June 4, 1999
- Tornado, June 1, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 17, 1999
- Hail, May 5, 1999
- Hail, February 27, 1999
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 5, 1999
- Winter Storm, January 1, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 10, 1998
- Flash Flood, July 7, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 1998
- Tornado, June 29, 1998
- Heat, June 26, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 22, 1998
- Hail, June 12, 1998
- Tornado, April 15, 1998
- Winter Storm, November 13, 1997
- Heat, July 26, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 14, 1997
- High Wind, April 30, 1997
- Tornado, April 30, 1997
- Winter Storm, January 26, 1997
- Winter Storm, January 15, 1997
- Heavy Snow, January 8, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 7, 1996
- Hail, July 2, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 21, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 21, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 19, 1996
- High Wind, March 25, 1996
- Winter Storm, March 19, 1996
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 2, 1996
- Winter Storm, January 18, 1996
- Winter Storm, January 4, 1996
- Winter Storm, January 2, 1996
- Tornado, May 18, 1995
- Hail, July 2, 1994
- Tornado, April 27, 1994
- Tornado, April 15, 1994
- Hail, October 1, 1993
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 5, 1992
- Hail, June 23, 1992
- Hail, August 14, 1991
- Tornado, August 3, 1991
- Hail, September 28, 1990
- Tornado, June 2, 1990
- Tornado, May 9, 1990
- Hail, April 28, 1989
- Hail, July 14, 1988
- Hail, July 10, 1987
- Hail, July 31, 1986
- Tornado, June 24, 1985
- Hail, May 13, 1984
- Tornado, March 15, 1984
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 19, 1982
- Hail, June 15, 1982
- Hail, May 21, 1982
- Hail, July 20, 1981
- Tornado, September 22, 1980
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 1979
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 1978
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 2, 1977
- Tornado, June 14, 1970
- Tornado, November 26, 1965
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 6, 1961
- Tornado, May 21, 1957
- Tornado, August 18, 1956
- Tornado, February 25, 1956
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 13, 1955
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.