Illinois

Storm History: Scott County, Illinois

220 episodes, 256 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Scott 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
256
Deaths
1
Injuries
10
Damage
$25 million
Episodes
220

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
Tornado6319$1.2 million
Flash Flood4200$1.3 million
Hail3700$2.9 million
Thunderstorm Wind2200$89,000
Heavy Snow1900
Winter Storm1600
Drought1000$19 million
Excessive Heat800
High Wind700
Flood700
Heat700
Blizzard400$21,000
Ice Storm400$100,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Cold/Wind Chill200
Winter Weather201
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 Scott County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Scott CountyEvery warning in Scott 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.