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RSS FeedsFatality Confirmed from the June 5th Dwight Tornado
A person who was seriously injured in the EF2 tornado that struck Dwight in Livingston County on the evening of June 5th has passed away from his injuries. This makes the Dwight tornado the first killer tornado to strike the Chicago/Romeoville County Warning Area in six years, since the Utica F3 tornado of April 20th, 2004, that killed eight people. It is also the twenty-second killer tornado to strike the Chicago/Romeoville County Warning Area since official records began in 1950.
Killer tornadoes in the Chicago/Romeoville County Warning Area since 1950 are as follows:
|
City/Town |
Counties |
Date |
Rating |
Fatalities |
|
Dwight |
Livingston |
June 5th 2010 |
EF2 |
1 |
|
Utica |
La Salle |
April 20th 2004 |
F3 |
8 |
|
Plainfield |
Will |
August 28th 1990 |
F5 |
29 |
|
Plainfield |
Will |
April 27th 1984 |
F3 |
1 |
|
Porter |
May 30 1980 |
F1 |
1 |
|
|
Wilmington |
Will |
June 25th 1978 |
F1 |
1 |
|
Lemont |
Cook and DuPage |
June 13th, 1976 |
F4 |
2 |
|
DeMotte |
Iroquois, Kankakee, Newton, Jasper, and Porter |
March 12th, 1976 |
F3 |
1 |
|
Northlake-Wilmette |
DuPage/Cook |
March 12th, 1976 |
F2 |
2 |
|
Shorewood |
Will |
April 6th 1972 |
F2 |
1 |
|
Ogle and Lee |
April 6th 1972 |
F2 |
1 |
|
|
Oak Lawn |
Cook |
April 21st 1967 |
F4 |
33 |
|
Lake Zurich |
Cook and Lake IL |
April 21st 1967 |
F4 |
1 |
|
Belvidere |
Boone and McHenry |
April 21st 1967 |
F4 |
24 |
|
Arlington Heights |
Cook |
June 9th 1966 |
F2 |
1 |
|
Channahon-Tinley Park |
Grundy, Will, and Cook |
November 12th 1965 |
F2 |
2 |
|
Crystal Lake |
McHenry and Lake IL |
April 11th 1965 |
F4 |
6 |
|
Bourbonnais |
Kankakee, Newton, and Jasper |
April 17th 1963 |
F4 |
1 |
|
Chicago |
Cook |
March 4th, 1961 |
F2 |
1 |
|
Harvard-Waukegan |
McHenry and Lake IL |
October 9th 1958 |
F2 |
1 |
|
Livingston, Ford, and Kankakee |
April 7th, 1954 |
F3 |
1 |
|
|
La Salle and Lee |
December 6th, 1951 |
F3 |
1 |
-T. Lyza, 7/1/2010
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