Thunderstorm Wind in Shelby County, Illinois

Hundreds of trees were uprooted in the town of Windsor. Several trees and large branches damaged about 200 house roofs in town. The strong wind also blew shingles off of many houses. One house on the west side of town was pushed several inches off of its foundation. Power poles snapped, power lines were knocked down and a few flag poles were bent.

A vigorous upper-level disturbance in conjunction with an approaching cold front triggered periods of showers and thunderstorms across central Illinois on August 16th. A few storms produced marginally severe hail during the morning across north-central Illinois. As the atmosphere destabilized further, severe thunderstorms developed along the cold front during the afternoon...mainly impacting locations along and east of a Champaign-Urbana to Taylorville line. Wind gusts of 70 to 90 mph produced widespread damage across portions of Christian...Shelby...Moultrie...and Coles counties. The town of Windsor in Shelby County was hardest hit, with more than $3 Million in damage.