On Friday, I visited Washington IL to check on the recovery from the November 17, 2013, tornado event. The good news is that I saw lots of construction. The bad news is that a lot of damage remains. As a result of the harsh winter, very little clean up could be done in these conditions, […]
The National Weather Service has a nice summary table of the 24 tornadoes that struck Illinois on November 17, 2013 [updated on December 2: the NWS now counts 25 tornadoes in Illinois]. This includes the locations, start time, EF rating, path length, fatalities, and injuries. They are available here as a pdf file on the […]
Based on preliminary reports and field surveys, there were about 23 22 tornadoes that struck Illinois on Sunday, November 17. [update: I just realized I didn’t add correctly when I wrote this late last night: 6+7+4+5=22] Six tornadoes struck northeast Illinois Seven tornadoes struck central Illinois Four tornadoes struck south-central Illinois: survey 1, survey 2 […]
In yesterday’s post, I showed a plot of the number of tornado events in Illinois by month. I redid the figure today to express the monthly distribution as a percentage of the total. We had 2239 events covering the period from 1950 to 2010, considering tornadoes in all EF categories. Here is the breakdown by […]
The Midwest was hit with a major tornado outbreak on Sunday, November 17, 2013. The preliminary reports can be found on the NOAA Storm Prediction Center reports page. Below is a map showing the preliminary reports. Click on the map to go to the Storm Prediction Center Google map server to zoom in and out, etc. […]
Illinois State Climatologist 