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NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database

Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Streator, IL

Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.

No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Streator, Illinois since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 98 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 7 of them rated EF3 or stronger.

Hurricanes
0

within 75 mi, since 1851

Tropical storms
0

below hurricane strength

Tornadoes
98

within 25 mi, since 1950

EF3 or stronger
7

15 deaths in all

Tornadoes within 25 miles of Streator

By decade

  • 2020s13
  • 2010s30(4 EF3+)
  • 2000s19(1 EF3+)
  • 1990s6
  • 1980s7
  • 1970s10(1 EF3+)
  • 1960s8
  • 1950s5(1 EF3+)
Strongest tornadoes near Streator, Illinois
DateRatingDistancePathKilled / injured
Nov 17, 2013EF49 mi46.36 mi3 / 125
Apr 20, 2004F317 mi15.8 mi8 / 12
Feb 28, 2017EF314 mi11.5 mi2 / 14
Dec 6, 1951F323 mi21.9 mi1 / 1
Feb 28, 2017EF314 mi17.77 mi0 / 0
Jun 5, 2010EF36 mi8.55 mi0 / 0
Jul 17, 1972F311 mi81.5 mi0 / 0
Jun 5, 2010EF217 mi5.96 mi1 / 13
Feb 28, 2017EF29 mi4.5 mi0 / 0
Jun 22, 2016EF215 mi11.1 mi0 / 4
Jun 22, 2016EF218 mi8.05 mi0 / 0
Jun 5, 2010EF22 mi17.62 mi0 / 17

The strongest 12 of 98, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.

How to read this page

A storm is listed when the centre of its track passed within 75 miles of Streator while it was at least a tropical storm, which is the reach of damaging wind and rain for a typical hurricane. Being on the list does not mean the city took a direct hit; the "closest" column says how near the centre came. Tornadoes are counted when any part of the path came within 25 miles.

Tornado records before the 1990s are thinner, because weak tornadoes in open country often went unreported before Doppler radar and mobile phones. A rise in the decade counts is mostly better reporting, not a change in the weather.

Tracks come from the National Hurricane Center's HURDAT2 database, tornadoes from the Storm Prediction Center's database. Both are the official federal records and both are revised as old storms are re-analysed.

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