Illinois Tornado Statistics
So far, we have had 30 tornado reports in Illinois for 2014*, according to initial reports from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center. Nearly half of those were from the tornado outbreak of February 20th. Our five-year average is 59.
*Of course, 2013 was a quiet year until the November 17th outbreak that struck Illinois.
Normally, our core tornado season is March-June with about two-thirds of our tornadoes occurring then. This year was very quite during that period, I think in part due to the colder spring weather. Here is the tornado count by month:
- January: 0
- February: 14
- March: 0
- April: 4
- May: 2
- June: 2
- July: 0
- August: 0
- September: 0
- October: 7
Here are the event reports from the National Climatic Data Center through the end of July. This database contains some edits to the initial data from the Storm Prediction Center so the totals may not line up between the two sources. You can recreate this report with working links to each event at: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/
US Tornado Statistics
Here is the distribution of the tornadoes for 2014 and the graph of accumulated tornado totals by year for the past 10 years, according to the NOAA Storm Prediction Center. Right now the national count is 998 tornadoes, which is below the ~1300 average through this date. The number of tornado-related deaths this year is 45, compared to 55 in 2013 and 70 in 2012.
