Tornadoes · United States · Illinois

2022 tornadoes in Illinois

35 tornadoes touched down in Illinois in 2022, 14 percent below the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

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The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Every tornado in Illinois in 2022

March 5 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 5	9:13 PM CST	EF1	Whiteside	4.0	50
March 5	10:11 PM CST	EF0	Mason	6.9	50
March 5	10:57 PM CST	EF1	Montgomery	3.9	40	$50,000

March 30 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 30	5:23 PM CDT	EF0	Franklin	4.0	100	$62,000
March 30	6:01 PM CDT	EF0	Wayne	0.3	50	$30,000
March 30	6:11 PM CDT	EF1	White	6.6	400	$200,000

April 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 24	5:49 PM CDT	EF1	Christian	0.9	50

April 30 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
April 30	4:44 PM CDT	EF0	DuPage	1.9	60
April 30	5:54 PM CDT	EF0	Boone	0.5	60
April 30	6:07 PM CDT	Unrated	Boone	0.1	30
April 30	6:46 PM CDT	Unrated	McLean	0.3	30

May 13 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 13	4:49 PM CDT	Unrated	McDonough	0.1	10
May 13	5:08 PM CDT	Unrated	Warren	0.1	10
May 13	5:20 PM CDT	Unrated	Warren	0.1	10

May 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 15	3:54 PM CDT	Unrated	Marion	0.1	30

May 19 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 19	5:44 PM CDT	EF0	Saint Clair	0.2	50	$10,000
May 19	5:53 PM CDT	EF0	Clinton	1.6	50	$30,000
May 19	5:57 PM CDT	EF1	Clinton	16.6	250	$70,000
May 19	9:31 PM CDT	EF2	Wabash to IN	26.9	300	$705,000

May 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 25	3:06 PM CDT	EF1	Stephenson	1.8	30

May 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 26	2:20 PM CDT	Unrated	Ogle	0.1	20

May 31 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 31	10:34 PM CDT	EF1	McDonough	1.6	60

June 13 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 13	6:13 PM CDT	EF0	Cook	0.2	30
June 13	6:27 PM CDT	EF0	DuPage	2.2	25

June 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 17	6:36 AM CDT	EF1	Richland	3.3	60

July 8 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 8	3:17 PM CDT	Unrated	McDonough	0.8	20

July 23 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
July 23	5:40 AM CDT	EF0	DuPage	4.5	150
July 23	5:52 AM CDT	EF0	Will	4.1	200
July 23	6:05 AM CDT	EF0	Will	0.7	150

August 1 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 1	4:46 AM CDT	EF0	Mason	0.4	60
August 1	5:12 AM CDT	EF1	Logan	1.9	60

August 20 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 20	1:17 PM CDT	Unrated	Mercer	0.3	10
August 20	1:55 PM CDT	Unrated	Mercer	2.8	10

September 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 18	12:28 AM CDT	EF0	McLean	3.0	30

November 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 5	11:06 AM CDT	EF0	Kendall	3.7	100

Nearby

Every tornado in Illinois since 1950 Warnings in force in Illinois The live radar over Illinois

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.