Thunderstorm Wind in Lawrence County, Illinois

A large complex of thunderstorms tracked across Wisconsin and Michigan during the pre-dawn hours of June 25th...triggering an additional cluster of storms further southwest in the Chicago metropolitan area. As these storms dropped southeastward, one of the cells grazed Vermilion County...dropping quarter-sized hail near Hoopeston shortly after sunrise. By mid-morning, a line of thunderstorms had developed along the outflow boundary left behind by the Wisconsin-Michigan complex from central Iowa eastward to southern Lake Michigan. As the line sagged southward, it produced damaging wind gusts of around 60 mph and sporadic hail as large as quarters as far south as the I-72 corridor. One of the cells along the line became particularly intense by early afternoon and produced significant crop damage east and southeast of Paris in Edgar County due to wind-driven large hail. The largest stones were golf ball-sized just north of Dennison. A wake low generated by the cell produced 60-70 mph wind gusts and additional wind damage across portions of Champaign and Piatt counties after the storm had passed.