Thunderstorm Wind — Clark, Illinois

2017-11-05 · near Casey, Clark, Illinois

Event narrative

A few trees and several large tree branches were blown down across Casey.

Wider weather episode

A slow-moving cold front triggered several clusters of strong to severe thunderstorms across east-central and southeast Illinois during the afternoon and early evening of November 5th. Most of the activity developed along and southeast of a Champaign to Taylorville line...with the strongest storms producing wind gusts of around 60mph and hail up to the size of nickels. One cell spawned an EF-1 tornado in northern Richland County northwest of Olney...damaging a few structures and trees along its path.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 724201. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.