Illinois

Storm History: Tazewell County, Illinois

498 episodes, 913 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Tazewell 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
913
Deaths
10
Injuries
216
Damage
$1.1 billion
Episodes
498

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.

Open the live radar over Tazewell County

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
Tornado3873196$988 million
Hail18806$386,000
Flash Flood11400$32 million
Thunderstorm Wind8908$1.1 million
Heavy Snow2122$60,000
Winter Storm2000
Drought1700$36 million
High Wind1200$25,000
Ice Storm1211$1.4 million
Flood1000$22 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill920
Heat700
Excessive Heat700
Winter Weather523
Strong Wind500$17,000
Blizzard400$400,000
Cold/Wind Chill200
Frost/Freeze100
Dense Fog100
Lightning100$50,000
Dust Storm100

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 Tazewell County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Tazewell CountyEvery warning in Tazewell 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.