Written by Severe weather season has been off to a very active start in Illinois, with everything from flooding, hail, and damaging winds – and more than 100 tornadoes statewide. As of April 22, the preliminary count for tornadoes across the state of Illinois stands at 101 and counting, easily leading the entire country by far. That’s nearly double the annual average of 54 tornadoes in Illinois. With our severe weather season just getting started and lasting through September, that number has the chance to go up.
The typical count for tornadoes per year across Illinois is 54, so we already nearly doubled that. As of April 19, there have been at least 20 tornadoes in the National Weather Service Chicago forecast area, which includes parts of northwest Indiana. The typical number for that forecast area is between 10 to 20 tornadoes per year.
- March 10th An EF-0 tornado north of Pontiac, IL.
- An EF-U tornado near Cayuga, IL (midway between Pontiac and Odell).
- An EF-U tornado in Kankakee Township. This brief tornado occurred prior to the start of the Kankakee-Roselawn
- EF-3 tornado. An EF-U tornado in Otto Township. This brief tornado lifted just before the start of the Kankakee-Roselawn EF-3 tornado.
- An EF-3 tornado that tracked through southern Kankakee and Aroma Park in Illinois and Lake Village and Roselawn in Indiana before ending west of DeMotte, IN.
- An EF-1 satellite tornado just southwest of Sun River Terrace. This was a southward-moving satellite tornado associated with the Kankakee-Roselawn EF-3 tornado.
- An EF-U tornado immediately south of Sun River Terrace. This was a brief satellite tornado associated with the Kankakee-Roselawn EF-3 tornado.
- An EF-U tornado in southeastern Ganeer Township, southeast of Sun River Terrace. This was another brief satellite tornado associated with the Kankakee-Roselawn EF-3 tornado.
- An EF-U tornado in Momence Township, north of Hopkins Park. This was an anticyclonic satellite tornado that initially moved north, stopped, then tracked south before ending very near its starting location.
- An EF-1 tornado that tracked from southwest of Wheatfield to near Dunns Bridge, IN.
- April 2nd EF-1 near Palmyra and Woosung in northwest Lee County.
- EF-1 in Pine Creek Township in southern Ogle County.
- EF-0 in Holcomb in northeast Ogle County.
- April 17th EF-U in Pecatonica
- EF-1 in Harrison EF-1 in Roscoe
- EF-1 in Gibson City
- EF-1 near Loda and Buckley
- EF-2 in Darrow
- EF-1 in Kentland, Indiana
Source: Illinois surpasses 100 tornadoes for fourth year in a row – CBS Chicago
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