Tornado in La Salle County, Illinois
Tornado July 14, 2024 · La Salle County, Illinois
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through La Salle County → La Salle County → Livingston County → Livingston County → Livingston County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
High resolution satellite imagery showed a tornado that touched down near E 10th Road between N 4th Road and N 5th Road and then moved southeast damaging only crops. The tornado crossed into Livingston County just south of N 4th Road. Since the only known damage from this tornado was to crops, it was assigned the EF-U (unknown) rating.
The wider storm
Thunderstorms developed during the evening of July 14th and continued into the early morning of July 15th, as they moved across all of northern and central Illinois. Nine tornadoes occurred, along with widespread wind damage. In the City of Chicago, there were 2,810 tree emergency calls and 1,430 calls for tree debris. Localized flash flooding also occurred, for a second night in a row in the Rockford area.
Began near Leeds (40.9943, -88.9686).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
5 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1191117. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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