Illinois

Storm History: Saline County, Illinois

738 episodes, 815 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Saline 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
815
Deaths
10
Injuries
118
Damage
$42 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
Dense Fog11400
Hail10600$1.1 million
Tornado778104$15 million
Thunderstorm Wind7001$1.1 million
Strong Wind5400$86,000
Heat5300
Frost/Freeze5200$30,000
Winter Weather5203$10,000
Flash Flood4900$3.5 million
Winter Storm3801$750,000
Excessive Heat3003
Drought2800$3.5 million
Cold/Wind Chill2100
Heavy Snow2001
Flood1610$17 million
High Wind1100$523,000
Heavy Rain700
Ice Storm610$230,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Wildfire205$5,000
Freezing Fog200
Funnel Cloud100
Dust Storm100$1,000
Lightning100

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 Saline County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Saline CountyEvery warning in Saline 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.